Archive for September, 2007

Grrrrr…..bloody Microsoft

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

We run Sun LDAP server (Directory server 5.2) and we use idsync (or SUNWisw, or “Sun identity syncronisation for windows” or whatever they are calling it this week) to enable passwords in our Microsoft AD domain to be kept in sync with the passwords in LDAP. This has worked brilliantly for a couple of years.
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What is it with our WRC champs? :-(

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

A few years back, I remember Richard Burns death being announced and Colin McRae giving interview after interview about how although rivals they had been the best of friends in many ways. Then, on Saturday evening rumours started that McRae had been involved in a helicopter crash - with no survivors :-/
Seems this is now [...]

Wow!

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Wow. FIA have balls after all. Not sure I agree entirely but wow.
Of course, McLaren will no doubt appeal (they are waiting till after the weekend apparantly).
Wow. Still, could result in a British champ and a prancing horse winner of the constructors - perfick

999

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Driving home last week I noticed a sign warning that Old Dover Road was going to be closed on Saturday for a “999 Open Day”. Not really having a clue what this was (and finding bugger all info on the intermahweb) we decided to pop over and have a look. Glad we did, the kids [...]

been a tad hectic…

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

A rather frantic couple of weeks is finally over…
Firstly, a week in London on and Exchange course. Course was a tad slow (as were the single core cpu 2GB machines that we were running 3 windows2003 server VMs on). Still, good to meet up with Phil again (Emma, are you sure you know what you [...]