Originally posted to the Scary Devil Monastery on 2004.02.09. To be fair, OpenLDAP has gotten much more stable since then.

Rune Kristian Viken  wrote:
> 
> I suddenly realize that the ldap database contains far too few users, 
> that is, no users since November seem to exist in the database.  Curses
> fly through the room.  

    OpenLDAP, at least, seriously sucks.  If it weren't better than
all the alternatives for our setup, I'd be tempted to find all of the
authors and go back in time to kill all four grandparents of each one,
just to be sure.

Originally posted to the Scary Devil Monastery on 2002.03.27:

This isn't the first time I've been aghast at what the chemistry
department over here at $UNI has done[1][2], but it's the first time
someone over there has actually attempted to imply that I'm somehow
responsible for their breakage, all the way over here in the math
department.  That irritates me, but I knew the risks when I took the
job.  What gets to me is that they've managed to find someone to get
them the equivalent of BlackEyes Defender or ZonedAlarms for their
shiny Beowulf cluster, and the head of the department has decided that