Goal: Build very efficient, light weight and small size notebook that will become my primary computer for every day tasks like web, e-mail, and etc.

Status: Research.

Goal: Build robust Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance for my home.

Current status: Hardware and basic configuration is completed, but find tuning is needed.

My Mom needs a PC to keep in touch with me, but she never used PC before and all maitanece will be done remotely by me.

Current status: Planning. 

Here's how you can create a bootable USB flash drive.

By Chris Wolf

Chris: I have an 8GB USB thumb drive and I want to make it bootable. Do you know of any utility that I can use to do that?
-- Carlos

The main goal of this project is to build back-end support server for the smart home of 21-st century.

Current status: Testing different solutions and defining the requirements.

A few months ago, I wrote a column in REDMOND magazine about using Active Directory to authenticate Linux users. I regularly get requests for help on this and additional information on getting the configuration files put together correctly. (To read the original column, go to

So, here's a quick checklist that I use to configure Fedora Core 3 clients to authenticate with an Active Directory domain using windbind. In this example, the domain name is Company.com with a flat name of COMPANY. The Active Directory domain controller name is W2K3-DC1. The Linux host name is fc3. The Linux client has SELINUX and iptables enabled and running. Following the checklist, I've included a list of the configuration files.