Providing Directory services to your family without losing your roots.
The computer proliferation problem This post describes my experience and some choices that I made. It is a personal choice and I'm not saying that this the 'best way' (tm) to solve this problem, just that it is one of the possibilities. I'm sure a lot of parents can relate to this. Back then, life was simple: my kids would use the media library, surf the InterNet from the PC in the living room and type their documents on that box. The documents would be saved in a shared folder on the home RHEL Cluster and backups would hum at night. Then, little by little things became more complex. The teenagers got their first laptops and life was good.. for a short while. I had agreed to keep the laptops under Windows (10). This made -my- life simple since patching firmwares/BIOS on Lenovo laptops is very Windows-friendly. Since they had to use Microsoft Office for school, having that suite on their personal computers allowed them to work efficiently and occasionally play s