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Amazing. Only in America (at least this got thrown out!)

Late last week, it seems that Trudy Norris-Grey (el president and Managing director of Sun UK) became ex president and ex managing director. Bit of a surprise - she had only been there a couple of years. Not seen where she is off to but I’d imagine she’ll not be looking for income support. [...]

Finally got around to sorting out the old PC I had spare for my parents the other day (OMG, when did hard disks get *so* cheap - even diddy 2.5″ ones!) and then spent a frustrating time trying to get it working at their place. Having spent 13 minutes downloading a 3 MB file it [...]

Following last weeks Panorama we get this reported.
It’ll eat your children I tell ya

note to self: When installing idsync don’t spend ages trying to debug why it only syncs passwords from AD to Sun only to find the default is to not set the “sync attributes in both directions”. Grrrrrrrr.
Also, don’t try to use truss -f to follow the java process that is doing the syncing - holy [...]