Disqus - Latest Comments for Marty Heyman

Re: An ldap addressbook on your mac!

Marty Heyman — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:14:47 -0000

Or, you could download and install Symas OpenLDAP for Mac OS X which is up to date and supports all the functions of OpenLDAP. Just a thought. Apple has announced that Leopard (coming RSN) will have a much more up to date OpenLDAP installed with few actual proprietary mods ... that will be cool, too.

Re: Is Identity in the eye of the beholder?

Marty Heyman — Fri, 27 May 2005 11:46:50 -0000

Thanks. Nicely put and plenty to think about. I wonder if the real responsibility of the Aggregator isn't to collect the identity information in such a way that the collection of data has a minimum of ambiguities by design? From any richly understood identity, one can probably derive RDF representations of several "masks" worn by the same person or thing .

My recent projects in address book directory design for mixed business and personal use have me circling this subject and I appreciated the viewpoint you offer here.

Re: One symbol, multiple meanings

Marty Heyman — Fri, 27 May 2005 11:53:02 -0000

slapd type directoryServer
slapd hasDeveloper SunMicrosystems
slapd hasDeveloper OpenLDAP
slapd hasDeveloper Novell
slapd hadDeveloper RedHat

OpenLDAP type :-)

Is OpenLDAP slapd? Is OpenLDAP the Foundation? Fun.

Re: The Email Is Dead / RSS Is King Crowd

Marty Heyman — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:27:22 -0000

Well, Paul, email has been announced as dead and obsoleted several times and it is still the dominant messaging technology. Nothing wrong with RSS for them what partake, but email is still king and, in my humble opinion, will be so for another decade or two.

Re: CES 2009: PowerFilm's Battery Chargers and $1,000 Solar Blanket

Marty Heyman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:46:25 -0000

Hmmm, follow your links back yourself. The 60W powerfilm is about on a par with the cost of the only other solution near 60W in your list (55W listed for about $1K). The powerfilm offerings are packaged for rugged use and fold to conveniently packable brick sizes. Their accessory line is quite good if not really cheap. If all you're charging is AA and AAA batteries, these expensive chargers are a waste of time. If you want to run/charge a Macbook, 60W is barely sufficient ;-) ... their chargers are rated for 60W. At that point you need something worth quite a lot of dough.

Re: Cycling Rail Trails a Boost to Local Economies

Marty Heyman — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:34:02 -0000

People in Contra Cost County, here in Northern California, celebrate two train trails between many of the population centers and commercial centers of the various communities up and down the main local valley. The story of neglect of the railroads is sad. The conversion to walking and cycling is better than complete disuse. But it's not an ecological victory, it's at best a monument to what should have been ... and what should, in my opinion, be a priority for those communities in the coming years.

Re: Sharing - It's The Party Line

Marty Heyman — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:57:27 -0000

Those who ignore history tend to repeat it.

Shared computers, like multi-user Linux systems offer the same or better administration savings with substantially better performance than even virtualizing single user versions of the same Linux system. Your point about Vista is well taken. So, virtualizing is a net saving but it is a much lower net saving than going to true multi-user systems which have been around since the 1960s.

If you're going to take away their PC, give them something that's going to get you all the benefits. Just my humble opinion.

Re: Survey: Paper or Porcelain?

Marty Heyman — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:36:06 -0000

Actually, I'm off coffee as well. I'm spending a lot more money on good chinese teas from www.redblossomtea.com and composting the spent leaves.

Re: USDA Grass-Fed Beef Label in the Works

Marty Heyman — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:24:25 -0000

Was this from a USDA PR piece? The glowing language sounds like the prose from a promotional piece. As Anonymous says, cows like grass and much in the piece is truly good news. The fact is that 1,000 cattle fed grass and 1,000 cattle fed grains mixed with grass-stocks emit about the same levels of greenhouse gasses ... so the bit about air pollution is a bit of an overstatement. Mind you, I'm delighted they're pushing grass-fed. It's about time.

Re: CES 2009: PowerFilm's Battery Chargers and \$1,000 Solar Blanket

Marty Heyman — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:46:25 -0000