Cloudera Hadoop
Apparently the cool kids (Google) have moved on from MapReduce now, but hey, worth a look.
AD Integration on Linux
Having trawled through seemingly hundreds of howtos and tutorials, nothing seemed to work properly for me. I’m pretty sure I’ve got a very minimal and easy setup running now so I hope it’s of use to someone else.
Click AD Authentication on Linux to see the wiki page
Forget all that. Just install a newer distribution and use sssd. I’ve done this successfully on Scientific Linux 6 and Fedora 13. Follow the instructions here. The only change I made was:
chpass_provider = krb5
I still use the instructions here to set up Kerberos for Apache.
Too Many Things To Try
Having a really short attention span and a wide range of interests makes for lots and lots of things to try. Now I just need to figure out what to do with some of these:
- processing and toxiclibs for visualisation stuff
- CoffeeScript, Brunch, Backbone.js, ICanHaz.js and Moustache.js for web bits and pieces
- More and more interesting stuff for Android tablets
- Arduino for the real world bits – maybe some high speed photography…
Word Clock
A word clock based heavily on QClock2 but made a little prettier and optimised.
Thunderbird and Active Directory Autocomplete Lockups
This post just made so many people in my office happy. If you setup LDAP address lookups to an Active Directory server and experience hangs when autocompleting, just change the LDAP port from 389 to 3268.
Thank you Vivek Kapoor: Thunderbird Active Directory LDAP Lookups Hang