If you are a Dell Axim userI love hardware for my Dell PDA. I was currently noticing the battery starting to weaken on long weekends. What I needed was a cable that I could take in my bag for traveling that would sync-charge my PDA. Well let me tell you, I found the cable I was looking for on Ebay and it starts at $2.75. What a deal even though shipping was $5.99. How does it work? Just fine. If you need one of these cables, let me know.
Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0
Windows Domain Migration Release
The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.0, a major new release of the award-winning Open Source/Free Software file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows ® clients.
Replacement of Windows NT4 ® Domains
Samba 3.0 contains the first Open Source/Free Software implementation of Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0 whilst keeping their existing user and group account databases. This enables significant cost of ownership savings over a Windows NT4 domain as a Samba 3.0 Domain Controller does not require client access licenses. Existing Windows tools can be used to manage a Samba PDC, allowing customer Windows expertise to be leveraged in a domain migration. A choice of LDAP back-ends allows integration with an existing customer directory service.
Single Sign-on with Active Directory ® Integration
Samba 3.0 seamlessly integrates into a Microsoft Active Directory domain in both native and mixed mode. Samba 3.0 provides single sign-on for UNIX ® / Linux ® clients in an Active Directory environment, allowing both servers and clients to transparently use Active Directory as an authentication and account source. Domain trust relationships are fully supported, allowing Samba 3.0 Controlled Domains to integrate easily into any Active Directory environment.
Complete Integration with Windows Security
Samba 3.0 fully implements Kerberos 5 authentication, SMB signing for tamper-proof file serving sessions, and SCHANNEL security for secure remote procedure calls. Samba 3.0 works "out of the box" with the improved security settings of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers.
A Global File and Print Server
As Samba is a global project, internationalization support is an important feature. Samba 3.0 now implements UNICODE character sets on the wire, allowing clients using any character set to connect to a single file server and store names in their native character sets.
David de Leeuw. Head, Medical Computing Unit
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel wrote :
"With the release of Samba 3 we are able for the first time to store our files on the computer servers in any language we want. Filenames in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and scores of other languages, used by our staff and students, mix without problems thanks to the great new UNICODE support of Samba."
Scalable Printing
Samba 3.0 has been tested in production supporting thousands of print queues with tens of thousands of simultaneous print jobs, providing the most scalable Windows printing solution on the market. Samba 3.0 fully supports the Windows "point-and-print" driver download feature, allowing Samba 3.0 to provide a transparent Windows printing experience.
Comprehensive Documentation
Samba 3.0 ships with the second edition of "Using Samba" by Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, and David Collier-Brown (O'Reilly & Associates ®). Many thanks to the authors and publisher for making "Using Samba" available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
In addition, the Samba HOWTO documentation collection has been updated and improved by John H. Terpstra, Jelmer R. Vernooij and others. As well being freely available in the Samba 3.0 release it will be released in a forthcoming book, "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide", to be published by Prentice Hall ®.
Award Winning Linux/UNIX and Windows Integration
Samba has won many awards for providing Windows and Linux/UNIX connectivity. Last year, Samba was awarded the Innovation in Infrastructure prize in the "Enterprise Software" category by eWeek and PC Magazine, beating out such competitors as the Java 2 Platform.
David A. Licosati, Vice President, InoStor Corporation said :
"Samba 3.0 goes beyond expectations. The team's work allows us to penetrate markets and open up new areas of deployments heretofore unobtainable."
Samba is the leading choice for Windows connectivity
Samba 3.0 is fully portable, POSIX compliant software that runs on a variety of UNIX and UNIX-like systems including AIX ®, DG/UX ®, FreeBSD, HPUX®, IRIX ®, Linux ®, Mac OS X ® and Solaris ®. Samba is shipped as standard on all versions of Linux, and most of the major vendors versions of UNIX as a fully supported part of the operating system.
Getting Samba 3.0
Samba 3.0 is available now from the Samba Web site and all worldwide mirrors.
www.samba.org
About the Samba Team
The Samba Team is a worldwide group of computer professionals working together via the Internet to produce the highest quality Open Source/Free Software Windows (SMB/CIFS) server software.
Samba - "Opening Windows to a Wider World"
Intel giving out wireless for one day, but not to you Los Angeles
On Thursday, September 25, Intel will be teaming up with leading wireless Internet service providers, notebook manufacturers, retailers, hotspot location owners, and content and software providers in the U.S. to bring you a day of wireless.
These companies are providing free wireless Internet access in select locations on One Unwired Day.
Barnes & Noble* (Atlanta & Seattle)
Borders Books & Music* - Visit the Borders kiosk at the One Unwired Day festivals in New York, Chicago and San Francisco for a free Wi-Fi* day pass or go to your local Borders store to find out how to unwire at a Borders cafe near you.
Marriott International*
McDonald's Corporation* - Bites or bytes in select New York, Chicago and San Francisco locations.
Tully's Coffee*
One Unwired Day Details
From the desk of my Friend Allison: PINK SLIP PARTY
REMINDER: Pink Slip Party. Wed (9/24)
Don't forget to come out for the Pink Slip Party on Wednesday, September 24th at Discotheque located at 17 West 19th Street between 5th and 6th. The event starts at 7pm and will be in full swing shortly thereafter. Our fabu sponsor, Bacardi Limon, will be providing a complimentary Pink Slip Cosmo to every guest. So, prepare to imbibe.
To RSVP (if you're not already getting this newsletter on a regular basis), go to: http://www.thehiredguns.com/events
TAKE NOTE: Our resume makeovers have become QUITE popular. The Resume Deli Team (http://www.resumedeli.com) has done a stupendous job at reviewing and recommending resume tips that can immediately improve your chances of getting selected for an interview. It should be noted that every single Resume Deli representative donates their time which is quite an amazing
feat. WARNING: If you want your resume made over...bring your resume and get to the party on time (7pm). The slots go quickly and we would hate for you to be disappointed.
At 7:30, I'll be giving a talk in the back room on how to get more bang from every cover letter you send out. We also have the good folks from Futures in Information Technology offering free job re-training and American Express Financial Services who will coach you on how to manage your finances while unemployed.
Questions? email: pinkslipinfo@thehiredguns.com
Can you hear me now?
Nextel sues Verizon Wireless over ads
Carrier known for its walkie-talkie service says Verizon Wireless commercials are misleading.
Nextel Communications Inc, the No. 5 U.S. wireless operator, Tuesday sued Verizon Wireless, charging its larger rival with false advertising in a series of advertisements for a new walkie-talkie phone service.
The lawsuit steps up a battle between the two carriers over a service that allow wireless subscribers to connect with colleagues or friends across the country with the push of a button, instead of dialing a number and waiting for the call to go through.
In August, Verizon Wireless launched its so-called 'push to talk' service, taking aim at a lucrative market niche that Nextel (NXTL: Research, Estimates) dominated for a decade. Other carriers are planning to introduce similar services over the next six months. " Check out
CNN
This might be of interest of you hardware people
Intel's looking at BTX to replace ATX as the desktop form factor.... We
have a year or two till it's serious, but prepare in advance. :)
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1876
Short version, expect these things in the final release:
- No AGP Slot (PCI Express instead)
- No PS/2 slots (USB)
- No Serial Ports (USB)
- No IDE ribbons (Serial ATA)
- Card slots are now on the opposite side of the M/B, so using existing
PCI cards will likely be a problem.
- Versions for Full size, Half-size (like the old Dells) and Small form
factor (like the Shuttle boxes)
Basically it's a start-over from almost scratch and legacy is being
removed. Interesting stuff.
It's got to suck to be Verisign
ICANN to VeriSign: Stop mucking around
Posted on:
CNET News
Is VeriSign mucking up the integrity of the Net? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) thinks it's likely.
Reacting to widespread criticism of VeriSign plans, the organization, which regulates how Internet addresses are assigned and reserved, asked VeriSign to halt its SiteFinder service. The ICANN is studying whether the SiteFinder service--a bypass of the portion of the Internet that VeriSign controls--will break how the Internet responds to errors.
SiteFinder sends Web surfers who mistype an address ending in .com and .net to a VeriSign controlled search site. Many network administrators have criticized the scheme because some technologies, such as antispam filters, rely on getting an error for nonexistent domains.
The ICANN has asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend its SiteFinder service until a panel of experts can determine how the service could affect the Internet. The group is also doing a legal analysis of its agreement with VeriSign for maintaining the .com and .net domain databases. So far VeriSign has not responded.
