(18 quotes found)
“Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.”
George Bernard Shaw
“From what I have seen so far of the Windows 2000 beta, calling Active Directory a directory in the same sense that NDS is a directory is ludicrous,”
Chris Miller
“We are controlling this directory. There isn't [stuff] in here that's labeled explicit.”
Maria Thomas
“The sooner you get to a directory structure, and the more centralized you make repositories and storage in your organization, the much better off you're going to be doing business-to-business and business-to-customer [transactions] later on down the path.”
Dana Gardner
“There hasn't been a [Windows] directory before, there's just been trees and network diagrams and information about who is on your network. This conversion will require people to really do some work.”
“They have user IDs in Active Directory now, so they have simplified things somewhat. Now they want a full Kerberos infrastructure with smartcards for their Unix systems. With VAS version 3.0, we are now providing a complete NIS replacement including migration with a full set of tools.”
Dave Wilson
“We had a case where an important user account came up missing?the account was not in the directory. We immediately took action and restored the account, and I was able to go back and see that it was a mistake made by a particular administrator. It's nice not to have any mystery about who is making changes to the system.”
Thomas Ware
“There is a lot you can do because an object exists in a directory. In principal, any object in a directory can be given any attributes that you want to give it. Group Policy is taking more advantage of the capabilities that Active Directory has to offer.”
Scott Crawford
“There are many reasons that someone may have been unable to participate in the directory assistance infrastructure. One scenario could be the consumer may have a VoIP line or cell phone and their carrier does not provide their listing data to the listing data base providers, or their phone service is under a spouse or roommate's name.”
Jeff Pulver
“I found them in the proverbial old trunk, ... One of them may be the oldest phone directory in town. It's just a single sheet of paper with typed numbers on it.”
Robert Farmer
