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Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 Active Directory Integration w/ Likewise Open by Finfo

Finfo — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:55:19 +0000

Done in my Ubuntu as your instruction.
But still failed on username authenticate, thus web connection with exchange seems work perfect.
Do you know why?

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 Active Directory Integration w/ Likewise Open by Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:15:30 +0000

I would like to know that too…..

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 Active Directory Integration w/ Likewise Open by Oerb

Oerb — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:57:24 +0000

yes…. this is the right question. No update, no softwaremangement etc. Because sudo isn’t aviable for AD-User. And for non AD-User Evolution-Exchangeconnector isn’t working any more.

Comment on Windows Server 2008 “Workstation” Take 3. by jaysonrowe

jaysonrowe — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:27:44 +0000

Rook - even though I answered you off-channel on the merc forum, I’ll post my response here too:

I’m not sure about the 3D mark question - Looking at the score breakdown, makes the scores seem really more similar than they appear looking at the final 3D mark score - Server 2008 got higher scores on the CPU mark portion of the test than either XP x64 or Vista…

As for the games, again - not sure - just posting results And again, the benchmarks weren’t run in a pure controlled environment like TomHardware, Anandtech, ExtremeTech and other sites like them do…so some of it could have been inconsistencies on my part.

After seeing your response I should probably post a follow up to my other readers (and probably will), but a lot of it comes down to how the OS “feels” which is something that can’t be benchmarked. ESPECIALLY now that Server 2008 has been up and running on my machine a few days and SuperFetch has kicked in, it feels SOOOO much faster than XP x64 it isn’t funny - apps load instantly (even Office 2007 apps, which are notoriously slow to load) - also the areas where Server 2008 did VERY well for me is CPU utilization (seems to multi-thread better than either of the other two) and I/O performance. Also, Server 2008 (and Vista for that matter) do a better job of utilizing a large amount of RAM that goes largely un-utilized on XP x64 UNLESS I’m running a Virtual.

Plus, Server 2008 is hands down the best platform I’ve run VMware Workstation on yet - virtual machines suspend and resume VERY fast, and Linux distro’s like Ubuntu and others that have VMware’s VMI paravirtualization built into the kernel pretty much run at full bare metal speed. I probably have 30 Virtual machines on my PC right now - I know I have win 2k server, win 2k3 server, win 2k8 server, XP x64, Vista x64, Solaris, BSD, Ubuntu, and almost every other major Linux distro out there. It’s something I play with… a LOT!I even have a CentOS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux “free” Clone) VMware virtual running with the Xen Kernel, and I have Virtual Machines running in Xen on that VMware Virtual machine - now that’s DEEP VMWare is the main reason I have 6GB of RAM in my machine.

Anyway - like I said, it works better for me, in my situation. If you have a chance, and can get your hands on Server 2008, try it out, but XP x64 or even Vista x64 may work out better for ya. They are a little less work to get set up as you have to “add” stuff to Server 2008 to make it a “Workstation” OS - but hey, I’ve ran Linux on my main machine almost exclusively for the last 2 years up until I started trying out Server 2008, so I’m used to “tweaking” to get things just right - it would probably be an entirely different ball-game for the “average Windows user”. For ME, adding the little bit of extra stuff, to Server 2008, tweaking the scheduling, and stuff was LESS work than turning crap off in Vista, and it is STILL faster

WOW That wound up being a long post

Comment on Windows Server 2008 “Workstation” Take 3. by thee_rook

thee_rook — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:50:56 +0000

Why not use XP 64 bit? It seemed faster in some of the areas, and not that far behind in others. Also, the world revolves on XP. Just a quick question. My only confusion is the lower 3D Mark score but better FPS through every game? Why is that, and is FPS just a neat meter,but has no real value to game rendering?

Comment on Windows Server 2008 “Workstation” Take 3. by Parker

Parker — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:31:47 +0000

Hey Jayson, nice work.
For me, it seems a safe bet at this time for someone with limited OS knowledge but wanting to make use of all the RAM available on their rig the XP 64 Os would be the way to go. It scored higher that Vista 64, and unless I’m mistaken, is for the most part bug free and compatible with most 32 bit apps.

Comment on Reset Compiz effects back to Ubuntu Defaults… by jaysonrowe

jaysonrowe — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:17:53 +0000

Kalin - I’m not sure if this would work in a VT outside of GNOME - I doubt it would hurt to try though.

Comment on Reset Compiz effects back to Ubuntu Defaults… by Kalin

Kalin — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:55:53 +0000

I am checking this site from Windows because I set my compiz settings such that no windows are readable (i.e. the video card does not seem to support the option I selected). If this solution works, then I can get back to normal from just the command line. I can get to the command line by pressing ++F6 (for example) to get to one of the background terminal screens sitting around outside of the normal X/desktop environment.

Thanks in advance for the help!!

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Sat, 03 May 2008 04:16:58 +0000

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Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 Active Directory Integration w/ Likewise Open by Mike Bretz

Mike Bretz — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:50:05 +0000

Fantastic, this was SO easy to plug right into our AD authentication scheme. My next question - how to I get users added to the appropriate Admin groups on the Ubuntu box?!? I’m logged in as my AD user account but can’t use Add/Remove Programs!