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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
DIT Structure and Enterprises
On January 1st, 2007 -jim (not verified) says:
The reality of Identity Management, certainly in LARGE organizations, is an collection of identity data-stores with a methodology of keeping them in sync.
Why? Because vendors do NOT cooperate. Almost every vendor, including the Identity Management providers do not allow "their" user data store and authentication authority to be outside their application. As in AD can not use an external LDAP source for authentication and IBM Notes, Oracle data bases will not allow it either.
This is also the case in the OpenSoruce community to a large extent.
Typically a central "Identity Vault" is synchronized to other data stores based on the authoritative source for the particular data element.
Usually rather than organize the DIT to match the structure of the organization, attributes are valued as to be able provide many views of the organization.
Views may typically represent physical locations or organizational structure.