Large Groups in LDAP and C# .NET
Well, found another issue with migrating mailing lists into Active Directory. The .Net / C# libraries i'm using have a couple issues. First being, most servers are only configured to return 1000 or 1500 values for a specific property, for example "member". So when I'm trying to compare membership, its always missing some. Yet its not really missing them from the GUI tools. To solve this, you need to query this property value with the range= option. There is a real good piece of sample code for C# that you can use to get this done.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sds/sds/enumerating_members_in_a_large_group.asp
Also, there is an article about the truncating membership issue with dot net runtime v1.1 that is resolved with a patch. At the time of this writing it looks that the SP1 for v1.1 of the runtime fixes this issue.
This was a good thing to find. Within 20 minutes I had the new code inserted and debugged.
Want a Mac? You’re on your own
Reprint from Infoworld
I love Macs and I use one myself, but I can’t afford to spend time supporting them
By Chad Dickerson
March 22, 2005
About every six months, a particular event in my life as a working CTO forces me to step back and reconsider the Mac as an enterprise platform. Sometimes it’s a discovery I make on my own as a PowerBook user, other times it’s a new software release. This time, it was a simple question from a new salesperson we had just hired: Can I use a Mac here? Peering over the Cinema Display connected to my PowerBook, where I had just been typing, I said, “If you promise not to ask for support or help of any kind, sure.†He quickly agreed to take a PC. This short exchange raised a few issues about Mac support in the enterprise that I hadn’t fully considered until now.
The most hardcore Mac evangelists would have you believe that Macs require little end-user support, but with Apple reigniting sales primarily through consumer technology (some call the iPod the “gateway drug†to the OS X platform), I think corporate IT could potentially face a whole crop of end-users who are not the kind of self-supporting Mac enthusiasts to which we’ve all grown accustomed. Regardless of the platform, running your own computer in a corporate environment without support is time-consuming. When you bring a Mac into the corporate environment, you have to factor in software overhead such as VPN clients, Lotus Notes, and backup clients. In InfoWorld’s case, we aren’t even able to use our excellent outsourced, subscription-based backup service on Macs because the service only supports PCs. I know these difficulties well because I have been using a Mac in our environment for well over a year now. In a PC world, I either back up my own Mac or build a separate Mac backup environment, which is more expensive than the PC service.
Whenever I even hint at the difficulties of running a Mac in a Windows world, my inbox is flooded with Virtual PC testimonials. For the uninitiated, Virtual PC is software that allows you to run Windows XP in a virtual machine environment on your Mac. Compared to an actual hardware PC, Virtual PC is hardly proof that you can run Windows applications on a Mac. On my 1.25GHz PowerBook with 1GB of RAM, I feel like I’m being punished every time I launch it. After I installed Virtual PC, the first message I got upon booting up the Windows XP virtual machine was a pop-up in my task bar that read: “Your computer might be at risk. Antivirus software might not be installed.†If enterprise end-users use Virtual PC for anything mission-critical, IT has to figure out a way to manage another Windows machine, virtual or not, viruses and all.
Of course, you can spend a lot of time coming up with creative work-arounds for this kind of pain, but I’m writing this as someone who is responsible for making day-to-day IT operations work with resource and time constraints. My job isn’t about evangelizing a platform for which I have a personal preference unless doing so is best for the company. Though I do enjoy tinkering and I do think carving out some time for playing around is important for innovation in IT (witness the Google 20 percent rule), I’m usually working on some kind of deadline with real deliverables that must be met. I will continue to use a Mac because I like it, and I’m willing to support myself 100 percent, but I’m not going to spend my time evangelizing Macs to people who probably should be using PCs. I’m too busy.
An article by the CTO of InfoWorld, himself a Mac user in a Wintel-dominated organization!
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/22/13OPconnection_1.html
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Add CorvettePower.com to your RSS Reader
- To add an XML RSS feed.
In Trillian create a new News Feed with:
Server: www.corvettepower.com
Location: node/feed
How geeky are you
Nerd, Freak, Geek, Dweeb. Sound familiar? That's okay, cause I will be the richest person at my 15th year high school reunion. If a "con" isn't happening that weekend.
Foxtrot – World of Warquest
BTW... I can stop at any time... but I'm at close to 200 hrs online. Please... respond in character on Uther server.
SessionSaver for Firefox – Saves your Tabs
Well I have been working to use Firefox more and more for my web browsing. I am a HUGE fan of NetCaptor, and today, I finally found the last Extension to Firefox to allow me to use it more. Its called SessionSaver and what it allows you to do is save every tab that is currently open, automatically. And when Firefox relaunches, it opens them all back up again. Yes... this is in a way an Evil-Thing... (as I have over 180 tabs in Netcaptor). I honestly don't think Firefox will be able to handle it. As Tab's although a big part of Firefox, don't seem to have the attention given to them that Netcaptor has.
Here are the Extensions I use:
- Tabbrowser Preferences
- Bookmarks Syncronizer
- Add Bookmark Here
- DownTHEMall
- Download Manager Tweak
- Mozilla Archive Format
- SessionSaver
