Welcome. Take your shoes off and sit awhile.

This is the online home of me! Just this page with links to my Linux books and online howtos, which I think are excellent and useful and you will enjoy them.

My new book, the Linux Networking Cookbook, is now available. Chock full of step-by-step howtos for building wireless access points, firewalls, secure remote access and VPNs, Asterisk-based VoIP server, routing, troubleshooting and fixing, and loads more. This is the book for people who want to get things done, and not sit around listening to windy network engineers who tell them everything except which button to push.

You may also enjoy my excellent book for Linux power users and sysadmins, the Linux Cookbook. This is meant to be a companion volume to the Linux Networking Cookbook. Yes, there is another Linux Cookbook, by Michael Stutz, and it is also an excellent book. Buy both, you won't be sorry. You may also find my occasional O'Reilly Network article amusing, and possibly useful.

Scripts from my Linux Cookbook are found here.

You may also wish to peruse my weekly Linux howtos on Enterprise Networking Planet. Please also visit VoIP Planet for my fabulous Asterisk VoIP PBX howtos, and Linux Planet for Linux desktop-oriented howtos. Serverwatch's Tip of the Trade dishes up quick tips for Linux and various flavors of Unix.

Women computer geeks of all persuasions, from beginners to gurus, are invited to visit Linuxchix.org. It's a worldwide friendly community devoted to supporting women in computing. There are local chapters all over the place, and be sure to check out the mailing lists.

Please send fan mail, rants, brainstorms, and random notions to carla at tuxcomputing dot com.

Here is Pinball the cat demonstrating the correct way to live.

About me:
I laid hands on my first PC in 1994, a Mac LCII, and became instantly hooked. Since then I have earned my daily beans administering Linux and Windows systems for small businesses, and writing how-tos for real people. I am living proof that you're never too old to try something new; computers are a heck of a lot of fun; and anyone can learn to do anything.