Archive for October, 2003

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It’s Halloween… here’s my co-worker Matt as a hippie!

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My favorite place to eat at is closing this weekend. So long to Able and Tia Juanita’s. Your salsa and chicken tacos will live on in my heart. Fuck.

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O’Reilly Network: Confessions of the World’s Largest Switcher [Oct. 29, 2003]

Funniest switcher ad ever: “I was in the market for a new machine. I was hoping to get ten teraflops by the end of the year. I’d never used a Mac and had been looking at Dells and IBMs. Then Apple released the G5 on June 23. A week later I bought 1,100 duals online at the Apple Store. I’m Srinidhi Varadarajan and I build Supercomputers at Virginia Tech.”

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I fight for the Omega generation. The Omega generation is working for me!

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what i do at work:

Ok, for a number of OSX (10.2.8) lab machines I administrate, I’ve created an LDAPv3 authentication and mapping in Directory Access, which works great! The user’s get a mapped drive to a samba share, and all is well.

When trying to replicate this authentication method under 10.3 I encounter some interesting issues:

Our most importain mapping, which is a case insensitive string that contains a xml style url is encoded to a base-64 format due to the string containing the “