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Comment Re:Indeed it is a problem (Score 0) 904

by ghbpiper on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @03:01AM (#27131465) Attached to: Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise?

If you don't even KNOW what group policy is, why are you posting here? Get a knowledge injection of how NT and AD works, then come back.

No, not everything group policy does can be done in Linux.

In *nix, you don't *need* Group Policy. And there's no smells-of-ass, cluster-fuck registry "technology" to deal with. AD started out life as a stunted, dumbed down LDAP server. A poor copy of Novell's NDS. Granted it's gotten better, but it's still more restrictive than it needs to be. Applying windows technology in this case is like calling a spreadsheet a database.

Comment Time to Fire Up the Barbeque (Score 1, Funny) 183

by ghbpiper on Monday February 23, 2009 @07:09PM (#26963313) Attached to: NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Set For Launch Tomorrow

Tasty pig parts smoked w/pecan and applewood. low and sloooooooow. The plume should be visible from space. Now will just have to see if anyone from NASA shows up for dinner...

Comment Re:there's plenty of address space (Score 0) 258

by ghbpiper on Saturday January 03, 2009 @04:16PM (#26313719) Attached to: IPv4 Address Use In 2008

NAT also cuts their traffic costs because it keeps customers from running servers.

Aside from TOS issues, running servers (at least web servers) is no big deal. I've run a web server for years on dynamic IP addresses, thanks to dyndns.org.

Comment Re:Can you think of any famous female programmers? (Score 0, Redundant) 347

by ghbpiper on Monday September 29, 2008 @10:32AM (#25193593) Attached to: Becoming a Famous Programmer

Admiral Grace Hopper (Invented COBOL)

Submission + - Ulteo OpenOffice Desktop - Beyond Cool

Submitted by ghbpiper on Sunday December 16, 2007 @02:31PM

ghbpiper writes: Desktop linux had an article recently about Ulteo openoffice.org desktop. OpenOffice.org goes online with SAAS version. Seems to me they just blew past both Google and Microsoft, esp in terms of the functionality possible in applications running in the cloud. I wonder how many chairs lost their lives over this in a particular executive's office in Redmond, WA?

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