XML-RPC info
JSON = JavaScript Object Notation (replaces XML and serialization)

LDAP

CPAN Net::LDAP
An Introduction to perl-ldap → http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7086
http://ldap.perl.org/
ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationNotes
→ http://www.wlug.org.nz/ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationNotes
howto perl-ldap AD authentication
→ http://osdir.com/ml/lang.perl.modules.ldap/2003-08/msg00067.html
http://quark.humbug.org.au/publications/ldap/ldap_tut.html
Active Directory Authentication with Perl and LDAP
Building a Bridge to the Active Directory, with XML-RPC
LDAP examples →
Managing Enterprise Active Directory Services
similar to flexvpn-ldap:
Active Directory Group Extraction for LDAP

LDAP abbreviations, see:
→ RFC2256 - A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3

Abbreviations:

DN  Distinguish Name
DC  Domain Component
OU  Organisational Unit
UID User id
CN  Common Name
SN  Surname
L   Location
O   Organisation
ST  State
C   Country

Example:
dn: cn=sysadmin,ou=Group,dc=pisoftware,dc=com

Q: Are DN's case-insensitive ?

A: A DN is a sequence of RDNs. An RDN is a sequence of Attribute-value pairs. Each attribute has its own schema definition with its own governing rules. Some attributes are case-sensitive, some are not. As such, a complete DN may have components that are case-sensitive as well as case-insensitive.

Software

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
http://www.osalt.com/
http://live.gnome.org/Dia
http://opensource.startpagina.nl/
Gliffy (Online replacement MS Visio) → http://www.gliffy.com/
FTP client GPL → http://filezilla-project.org/
SmartDraw (better than Visio) → http://www.smartdraw.com/

PDF software

CutePDF printer → http://www.cutepdf.com/
PDFedit → http://pdfedit.petricek.net/en/index.html
use 'gs' (ghostscript) to combine PDFs: article

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf \
source1.pdf source2.pdf source3.pdf etc.pdf

DVD

DVD ripping

DVD ripper

DVD to MPG4 OpenSource/Linux/Mac: Handbrake → http://handbrake.fr/

DVD decrypter

DVD Decrypter
DVD Decrypter → http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

DVD Shrink

DVD Shrink
DVD Shrink → Official site: http://www.dvdshrink.org/
latest version of DVD Shrink was released in 2005, Latest OFFICIAL Version - 3.2.0.15
DVD Shrink download → http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/
DVD Shrink info → http://www.binaries4all.nl/dvdshrink/

K9Copy

K9Copy = rip/decrypt/compress DVD to ISO or File
http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/

Handbrake

HandBrake is an GPL open-source video transcoder for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
HandBrake = rip/decrypt DVD to file (AVI etc)
http://handbrake.fr/

DVD tools for Mac

Mac the Ripper → http://www.mactheripper.org/
DVD Copy for Mac → http://www.xilisoft.com/dvd-copy-mac.html

Convert Nero NRG to ISO

# Nero add 600 bytes to front of ISO
dd if=image.nrg of=cdrom.iso bs=512 skip=600

or: nrg4iso can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/nrg4iso/downloads/list (it's the Mac OS X executable). It's pretty straightforward. You run it in Terminal and for some reason you have to type ”./nrg4iso”. So, for example, you would type ”./nrg4iso foo.nrg foo.iso” to create foo.iso from foo.nrg.

Better: