Creds to Microsoft

Throughout the last few weeks I've somewhat raped my soul and went against most things I believe in. Why? I've done a Windows AD implementation to solve a somewhat interesting problem.

I've been working with an organization to help them create a centralized way of having authentication across the border, this include Windows, Linux and OS X servers and clients. Looking at the problem initially I gave it a try to run Samba as a PDC, unfortunately the development hasn't come as far as I hoped so I gave up that idea.

The solution I ended up choosing (which I haven't completely finished yet) is to utilize Windows AD and all that comes with it. As many know AD + Linux has never been a fun thing to deal with until recently as Microsoft decided to implement rfc2307 for Unix attributes. Doing this makes life a lot easier and I managed to put together a working solution in just a few hours, including group definitions!

For now I'm still working on having Samba authenticate with ADS so that shares can be maintained on a Linux-box rather than a Windows server (who wants to run NTFS anyway?) there's still some issues with it but I hope to have it ironed out pretty soon.

Didn't think I would say this but thank you Microsoft for opening up for us Unix-hackers!

HDTV for Linux

Yes!

I finally found it! A HDTV card that works with Linux, ONLY! :D
So since I haven't gotten any firm commitment on how long I'm going to stay in the US I'll just wait until I know. Hopefully I'll end up staying the whole 2008, and it that case I've decided to get some stuff, just to pass time.



                pcHDTV HD-5500                   Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080

Yes it's going to be pricy but hey. Who doesn't want to watch HDTV on a 100" screen or rock some Wii games for that part?