Active Directory User Accounts in Linux

Active Directory User Accounts in Linux

The Active Directory user accounts can be integrated into Linux in such a way that the AD user accounts appears as if they are native user accounts of Linux. There are two ways to accomplish this

1. Using Identity Management for Unix/Services For Unix
   Identity Management for Unix is available in Windows 2003 R2 and above while Services For Unix is supported on Windows NT 4.0 and above. IMU/SFU requires more effort to implement but provides more control over user accounts.
2. Using Samba
   Samba on the other hand is easier to implement due to its template based nature but gives less control over user accounts. In Samba, everyone belongs to the same group and uses the same login shell.

Active Directory Network Services in Linux

Active Directory includes Kerberos authentication and an LDAP-like Directory services which you can utilize in the various network services of Linux. Below is a sample diagram of Linux network services which can use Active Directory.

Here are the links on how to implement them.

Ambition , What does it mean to me.

“Ambition” (also known as aspiration, goals, or any other similar variant) is one of the highest qualities that I value in a person. Naturally, the opposite is also true – I am not a fan at all of people who lack ambition. I’m not saying everyone should aspire to be the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but at the very least people should try to do the best in whatever they decide to devote themselves towards. I have some friends who are set on becoming rich investment bankers in competitive firms, and that’s awesome. I have friends who want to work with cancer research; that’s great! On the flip side, I have some friends who really want to be fashion designers or wedding decorators. While not quite as lucrative a career as a biomedical engineer or investment banker, I still support their decisions because they seem very enthusiastic and excited about their jobs. Not everyone wants the cut-throat pressure of Wall Street or wants to deal with extremely challenging work every day, and I acknowledge this. The event organizer that devotes her time to learning new techniques, improves her style, and actively seeks jobs still deserves respect in my book. However, the student who doesn’t attend college because they “don’t see the need” and then end up working as a cashier in sari-sari store for a meager income? That is a lack of ambition, and it irks me when my closest friends sometime express ideas like it.

Especially here at inside the mall, it’s sad to see a lack of ambition because we are sitting here at the breeding ground for brilliant people! Someone (whether your parents, donators, or sponsor ) is paying for your Ivy-equivalent education, and it’s not cheap. Why waste someone’s hard work by squandering away your time on useless activities (like roaming inside the mall, playing billiards, and watching movies shows all day long?) That time could be better spent on reading, learning new material, planning your upcoming semester, attending student group obligations or even socializing with friends (you learn a lot from other people). I just hope that people here would create goals and then actively start striving for them; I want friends on the same level of ambition as I do, so that we can help push each other to attain greatness =)

The Importance of Friends

You’ve probably heard that you really know who your true friends are when the going gets tough. I believe there is a lot of truth to that statement. We have all experienced a scenario or two when we have been going through a painful situation only to discover who actually has the time for us. . . our tears, our problems, our endless hours of whining and self-discovery. The people in our lives who we thought would be there, faithfully -- no matter what, through thick or thin -- wind up being, what we called in second grade, “fair-weathered friends.”

As you know, a fair-weathered friend is someone who is only your friend when things are going good. When the weather is nice. When things look bright and sunny or when they need YOU. As long as the atmosphere is pleasant, you have a friend for life but let a storm start to brew in your neighborhood and they are nowhere to be found.

I wrote an acronym when I was in grade school for the word “friend” that I think holds a very true meaning of what a real friend should be.

F.R.I.E.N.D. = Found Reaching In Every Needed Direction.

You see, it shouldn’t matter what the climate is in your world as to whether your friends stand with you during times that are stormy or sunny. It is usually the times of adversity that draw our faithful friends to us and then we become closer and more personally bonded with them -- building longer lasting, closer relationships.

Prayer does

Prayer

All of us long to connect with someone who can identify with our circumstances and share in our day-to-day life. Prayer is just that - a personal experience and intimate connection with our loving Heavenly Father.

May the following articles and practical advice help you develop the moment-by-moment prayer life that God desires for you to experience. 1 John 5:14-15 says, "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of Him."

Daily Prayer --- Priority

Daily Habit
Jesus taught us the importance of daily prayer. He said, “Always pray, never lose heart” (Luke 18:1). He also said to converse with God day and night (Luke 18:7). When He taught His disciples to pray, He told them to ask God for their daily needs (Luke 11:3).

Jesus set an example of daily prayer by praying during all kinds of circumstances:

* He prayed at His baptism (John 3:21).
* He prayed as He faced His passion (Matthew 26:39) and on the cross (Matthew 27:46; Luke 23:34, 46).
* Jesus prayed while in agony, He prayed all the more earnestly (Luke 22:44).
* He prayed during sad times, like at the tomb of His friend Lazarus.
* He prayed all night before He chose His disciples. (Luke 6:12).
* He prayed when He broke bread and gave it to others to eat (John 6:11).

Jesus made it a priority to pray. "Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed" (Luke 5:16), or He sent the crowds away and “went up on a mountainside by Himself to pray” (Matthew 14:23). We also read that Jesus rose "very early in the morning" and "went off to a solitary place where He prayed" (Mark 1:35).

Daily Prayer: What Else the Bible Says
The Bible tells us to pray on all occasions, making our requests known to God (Ephesians 6:18). Scripture tells us to pray without stopping (1 Thessalonians 5:17). It tells us never to worry about anything, and to thank God for what He has already provided (Philippians 4:6).

Jesus taught His followers to pray a simple daily prayer. You may know it by heart already as “The Lord’s Prayer,” but it will become more meaningful to you if you take time to think about what each phrase means. Then say it in your own words:

* “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.” At the beginning of your prayer, acknowledge that God is your Father. For example, you might pray, "God, thank You for loving me and adopting me as Your child, though I did nothing to deserve Your love."

* “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” These phrases are all about your desire to have God's ideals acted out here on earth. Ask God to show you what He wants done today and to give you the energy or courage to do it. Ask Him to show you any ways in which you might be unaware you are doing something that is less than His ideal and to help you change.

* “Give us this day our daily bread.” Ask God to provide for you physically today. Feel free to ask for other needs such as housing, clothing, a job, safety, etc. Get specific about what you need and thank Him for the ways He has provided in the past.

* “And forgive us our trespasses even as we forgive those who trespass against us.” Ask God to forgive you for those things you know you have done wrong. You may want to pray for God's help in conquering a sin that keeps recurring in your life. Ask God for His forgiveness and thank Him. Then, think about whether there is anyone in your life who you have not forgiven. Take a moment to mentally forgive others. Ask God to intervene in those areas of your life.

* “Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.” After praying for forgiveness, pray for protection from temptations and evil for self and family

* “For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.” Acknowledge that God has the power to answer your prayers and perform what He has promised.

Dream - Why I always dreaming

What is a dreams ?

.. Here's the definition.
Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. That's it! Now that you are thoroughly confused let me explain in a more down to earth language. Our brains are in constant activity. Different states of consciousness (like awake, asleep, alert, drowsy, excited, bored, concentrating or daydreaming) cause different brain wave activity. Our conscious mind, or the part we think with, our "window" into life, only takes up a very small portion of our brain activity.........(some say this is only 10%) Other areas control things like breathing, heartbeat, converting light to vision, sound to hearing, balance when we walk, etc. etc. This too has it's own percentage. Another area controls imagination. This area is widely an undiscovered frontier. Imagination is more then dreaming of a new car or picturing someone with their cloths off! When you look at clouds and see shapes, or wood grain and see images, this is the "order from chaos" part of your imagination. The mind cannot deal with chaos very well, in fact it will resist it and sometimes manufacture order. (very important to the dreaming process.)This too occupies a small percentage of brain activity. Then there is memory. Memory is vast! And I believe it occupies more of the brains resources then most people believe.

And then there is the activity called dreaming. I think that to a certain extent, we dream all the time. Even while awake! But the process is functioning in our subconscious mind, out of view from our "window". If defined precisely, they may not be referred to as dreams technically, but the activity is very closely related. During certain cycles of brain activity while asleep, we can "view" these dreams with our conscious mind and record them in our memory. (this is why we sometimes remember them).

but what are dreams? Well, with the above kept in mind (especially the order from chaos part) try to imagine this.; Your brain mind and spirit, while at rest "review" and analysis in it's own way long term, short term and spirit memory. It kicks around emotions, thoughts, ideas, actions and interactions of the short term memory. Your mind is also processing spiritual data, your beliefs, whether or not you violated them, your information gained through psychic intuition (we ALL have this to a certain degree) and of course, any communication from God. ALL THIS data, as well as your subconscious "reading between the lines" of what people do and tell you, is then processed unsupervised by you! All this data is a form of chaos, and your mind (like seeing images in wood grain or clouds) puts it all together in a form of visual "screenplay", a medley of sight, sound,emotion and imagined interactivity. The end result is.... .............................You guessed it, a dream! hehe...

hmmmmmmmm .... but would it not be nice if it were that simple! Dreams are easily influenced by factors in your life and spirit, and these influences create "categories" that are almost infinite. We do broadly categorize them in terms like "prophetic, standard, physical and nightmare" (to name just a few) And these we study each their own, in order to gain benefit from them. I look at it this way: Our mind and spirit together with our brain, is actually the greatest computer ever devised! To understand it's "back of the house" processing is to learn more about ourselves, God, our future and each other. Many things can be gained from dreams, better health (mental and physical), entertainment and even financial gain! (dreaming of a invention or idea) Now that you know some of the basics about dreaming and what (theoretically) dreams are you should have a better grasp on how to understand and use your dreams.

now lets sing...

The Impossible Dream

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star

.... hehe ..

Night Out

It's another boring day for me, hubby is at work and I'm here doing nothing, im still undecided if i want to join to my girl friend reunion party out on Saturday, they are going to a karaoke club somewhere, another friend of mine already offered me a ride but I don't know If I want to come.
I am not comfortable yet around them but don't get me wrong they are all nice and fun, but its still not the same if you go out with your kabarka's. I don't know where i going ..