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Comment MS-CHAP (Score 1) 739

by jintxo (#27711947) Attached to: What Did You Do First With Linux?

First thing I did was figure out how to recompile pppd to support ms-chap encryption. My uni had Windows servers for their dialup access, argh!

It was a RH 5 CD that came with some book I bought. That was my standard way of getting linux cd's back then, because downloading CDs with a 9600 modem was painful). I remember downloading netscape taking almost a full weekend.

Cedric

Comment Re:Most common use of virtualization (Score 1) 422

by jintxo (#27074801) Attached to: Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe

CalDav exists, I have looked at it and decided it was not worth the effort (yet) to install software that implements CalDAV protocol, when compared to what I do:

- I enable WebDAV module on apache 2
- Clients use Thunderbird with "Lightning" extension or "Sunbird". Basically the same software but one is an extension to thunderbird and the other is a standalone app.
- Cients use a "Network Calendar" in Thunderbird that points to "http://my.server.com/WebDav/Username.ics"

voila, quick and easy.

We are a very small company, and that works for me, (we have about 10 "online calendars") but I couldn't imagine doing this in a large org without some sort of directory integration or autimatic configure scripts or something like that.

It is nice for the users to be able to access their calendar anywhere where they have HTTP access :-)

I followed some guides that were for ubuntu, although I don't use ubuntu, all concepts are the same. Google will yield short but usefult "quick guides" for this.

In the other respects, I do as you do (postfix for MTA, dovecot for IMAPs, etc etc)

Cedric
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AMD Promises Open Source Graphics Drivers 264

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MoxFulder writes "Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales, has promised to deliver open-source drivers for ATI graphics cards (recently acquired by AMD) at the recent Red Hat Summit. A series of good news for proponents of open-source device drivers. In the last year, Intel, the leading provider of integrated graphics cards, has opened their drivers as well. But ATI and NVidia, the only two players in the market for high-performance discrete graphics cards, have so far released only closed-source drivers for their cards. This has created numerous compatibility, stability, and ethical problems for users of Linux and other open source OSes, and prompted projects like Nouveau to try and reverse-engineer NVidia drivers. Hopefully AMD's decision will put pressure on NVidia to release open-source drivers as well!"

Feed AT&T gifts iPhone, Apple contemplates 3rd party software access (engadget.com)

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Your latest "anything iPhone related happens" post is here, this time with the news that AT&T has given away an iPhone to a member of the public, coupled with a recent statement that Apple is wrestling with the decision of whether to allow 3rd parties to develop iPhone apps. It's rather odd that the first iPhone to make it into the hands of a mere mortal didn't cost its new owner a single cent, but in a video taken at the commencement ceremony at West Texas A&M University, the CEO of AT&T Stan Sigman gave away an iPhone to one Dr. O'Brien. (At least, that's what the very crackly movie of the speech shot on a Treo appears to indicate.) The statement about the 3rd party iPhone software comes from a similarly authoritative voice -- Steve Jobs -- and through a clearer medium -- a phone-in of a recent Apple shareholders meeting. Jobs said that the company "is wrestling with" the decision to allow external developers to create their own software for the iPhone. Our wish is for Apple to open up the iPhone, or at least compromise and allow developers to create their own widgets. In the phone industry, standing still (which is effectively what Apple would be doing with a closed iPhone) is not an option: or, maybe it is. Hmm, we seem to have missed the smackdown.

Read -- AT&T's Stan Sigman gifts iPhone
Read -- 3rd party iPhone apps?

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