SEMiSLUG 14 March 1996
Question and Answer Sessions
- How to diagnose disk on Alpha running NT.
- Format as a MS-DOS drive, then try to upgrade it.
- What SunOS 4.1.3u1 doing wierd mount tricks? (df on a mount point (or under it) gives a "..: permission denied" error message; intermitent)
- Upgrade to Solaris? But seriously ...
- gated routing crap?
- ?
- NT 4.0b advertises itself as server?
- No idea why this is happening. (Idea: In Control Panel, start turning things off until the problem goes away.)
- Want a job in Birmingham?
- Talk to Paul Haas (paulh@hamjudo.com) for more info.
- SDRC (Structural Dynamics Research Center) a good place to work for?
- Upper management seems to turn over frequently. How do you like Cincinnati?
- NT -- how to list modules?
- Isn't there an "undocumented NT" book?
- Why NT?
- It seemed like a good idea at the time? Be careful of disk administrator under 3.51; under the wrong conditions it can toast your disk.
- WWW, DCE, X.500 auth (Ford)?
- Some are using DCE, but not enthusiastic about it.
- ISPs in (810)?
- Msen. Rustnet. IDnet.
- Java script security patches?
- Netscape 2.01 is out now. Nobody seems to have actually used it yet.
- Anti-java firewall.
- Nothing practical.
- Favorite VRMLers?
- The Netscape plug-in seems to be okay.
- Break mailing lists traffic in to chunks; how?
- Isn't there a "batchmail" utility somewhere? There's also supposed to be a new mail handler that processes mailing lists better than smail or sendmail.
- Serve video generically? (auto-convert format)
- xanim is a decent starting point; it'll handle most things, but integrating it is left as an exercise to the reader.
- Why all the funny bullets?
- Variety.
- Good reference on software metrics?
- Eobehm?
- Job for Jennifer Wesp?
- Contact her (jennifer@intranet.org) or see http://www.intranet.org/~jennifer/
- man page for toolchest?
- Hmm. Nope.
- Powerpoint to HTML tool?
- Microswitch is suppose to be coming out with something.
- PS to HTML?
- Look for ps2html.
- pthreads? What is? Why? What platforms?
- (a great silence decends upon the room)
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Presentation
X.500
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Mark Smith and Gordon Good from UofM. They work for ITD.
When you have as many people to keep track of at UM (115,000 or so), you
need a directory. X.500 provides a workable approach to managing all of
that info.
ccess to directory provided via client software (Mac, DOS, X) or e-mail,
gopher, finger.
foo@umich.edu does its best to look up foo in the X.500 directory and
get the mail to who it's supposed to go to.
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol):
+ X.500 is too heavy and complex
+ LDAP runs directly over TCP
+ Still uses BER binary encoding, but is much simpler than X.500 DAP
+ Draft IETF Standard, March 1995
See http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/ for more info.
Rumor and Innuendo (no names, please)