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Kudos to the IE team for making the HTML5 DOCTYPE invoke "super, super" standards mode without the <meta /> element.  Still unknown are the XML and XHTML MIME types, one can only assume those trigger super standards mode too.

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So it turns out that IE8 will trigger "IE8 Standards Mode" for at least the HTML 5 DOCTYPE, and according to Chris Wilson "any unknown DOCTYPE".

This makes the proposal of the <meta /> element a little more palatable, but I still feel it isn't enough. 

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It seems the IE team recently announced that IE8 will have a new rendering mode. This hasn't been controversial, or news in the slightest. ;-)

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One bit of news that I've found agreeable in the recent IE8 rendering switch debacle, is that IE8 will support the HTML 5 DOCTYPE without requiring the <meta /> tag switch.  Finally, some sanity. 

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A few people have wrote in to tell me about using authconfig to set-up Active Directory authentication.  Well, I didn't know about authconfig, so I guess I went about it the hard way.  All the web searching I did never turned up authconfig as a possibility. But, at least I know that much more about configuring active directory authentication on Linux. ;-)

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Now that you have Active Directory integration on Linux, you can authenticate against Active Directory from any application via a simple shell script. One I'm working on intergrates Active Directory authentication from PHP, without all the hassle of installing and using PHP's LDAP extension. Since I'm already configured to authenticate with winbind, I use a command that winbind provides to authenticate AD users, which makes the code required to do an authentication pretty simple.

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Recently I undertook the very daunting task of integrating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 server in a Windows Server 2003 RC2 Active Directory environment.

As enterprise networks go, single sign-on between operating systems from all walks of life is sort-of a holy grail of achievement, and with good reason, it was by no means obvious or easy to make it happen! But with some determination, lots of Google searching, trial and error, and a desk to bang your head against, it is ultimately possible.

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