NIS to LDAP migration Blue Print

If you are considering migrating your NIS (Once know as YP) data to LDAP then I recommend looking at the new Sun Blue Prints document Understanding the NIS to LDAP Service (N2L) Architecture. N2L provides integration between NIS and LDAP by providing NIS protocol support to the Solaris Operating Environment and other operating systems while keeping the data synchronised on the Directory Server over the LDAP protocol. Thus older operating systems that provide NIS serices but do not provide LDAP support can access data from a central LDAP service via the N2L gateway. The new Blue Print explains this in more detail and provides information on: How naming services are implemented within the Solaris OE, How information is stored within the Sun Java System Directory Server, Migration techniques and examples for migrating your naming data from NIS to LDAP and much more.

Technorati: Solaris

Solaris 8 BIND IPv6.ARPA

Solaris 8 Operating Environment with patch 109326-16 provides BIND
8.2.4 plus security fixes. This version of BIND does not currently support
IPv6.ARPA RFC 1886.

I was asked if the Solaris 8 version of BIND (8.3.3) suffered from MS
Article
815768; DNS server responds with NXDOMAIN or NAME_ERROR for
IPv6.ARPA requests causing application failure.

Using ‘dig’ from a Solaris 10 Operating Environment,
quickly confirmed that Solaris 8 does not inflict this issue:

$ dig @dss-s1 AAAA test.uk.sun.com.
; ‹‹›› DiG 9.2.4 ‹‹›› @dss-s1 AAAA test.uk.sun.com.
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1950
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;test.uk.sun.com.               IN      AAAA
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
uk.sun.com.             10144   IN      SOA     server.uk.sun.com. hostmaster.server.uk.sun.com. 2000110374 3600 300 604800 21600
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.208.158#53(dss-s1)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb  8 11:51:33 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 97

Stace

Photo Booth Picture

I went back to PC World today for one last look at the PCs, and to copy the Photo-Booth photos from the iMac to my Palm T3 via Bluetooth 🙂 I think that I will give-up the option of buying a PC from PC World, I need more time to look around and I don’t like to be limited to what is on offer in this store. Updated: 9th March I had an eleventh hour change of mind and have opted for the £1000 voucher. I will let you know what I decide to buy.

Fun with a Photo Booth in PC World!

Today Kirsty and I went down to our local PC World store to look at the computers they have to offer if we go ahead with the Sun Backed Government scheme. We had looked on-line and in some computer magazines (waste of money they were) and had decided that we wanted: AMD Athlon 3400+ or Intel Pentium 4, 1Gb Memory, 160GB hard disk, DVD-RW Dual layer, etc. So we’re looking around the store at all the various PC’s and see the ADVENT T9306 which fits what we came looking for… When from behind this powerful PC an Apple iMac in the row behind catches our eye as it is playing a slide show of crazy photos. We approach the iMac and see our selves as comic book characters! Brilliant! The IMac has a camera on the front and shoppers are taking weird photos of them selves using the Photo Booth application and leaving them for all else to see. I have never used a Mac myself but have seen others with them and have been shown a thing or two. So I start showing Kirsty who say’s, can we get one of these?

So now I’m looking at MS and Apples web site and wondering what is the best for my families computing needs.

Stace

Digitally signed email

As you may recal I have been trying out JDS and so thought I would give Evolution a spin.
My first experiance was not too bad, though I have come to use Thunderbird‘s short-cut keys which are of course different to Evolution’s. One thing I noticed with evolution was that I could use my PGP key to sign my email. I recalled that Chris’s e-mail was digitally signed and sure enough found that he blogged the process. I thus now have a digital signature to my office emails and can look forward to people asking me “what’s that?”

On the subject of email, my youngist daughter has the word ’email’ in her spellaphon, which is why I am using email rather than e-mail!

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FreeMind – Mind Mapping

FreeMind is project of the month on SourceForge. FreeMind is a very simple to use mind-mapping program, or a tree editor. One of my favourite features is that it can be almost fully controlled via the keyboard. I see that their is also a PDA application FreeMindPDA which is able to read and write FreeMind’s XML files. The PDA version is a rewrite using SuperWaba, an open-source software development platform for PDAs.