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Minibian is an awesome lightweight Raspberry Pi distro based on Raspbian. It uses all the same repos so you should not notice any differences. It uses only 16MB of RAM on boot and takes up about 300MB on the SD card – so you only need a 1 GB SD … I'm curious
Many usenet and torrent programs startup using the Windows startup folder. While this generally works it is not ideal for processes that can freeze or hang – you want to be able to restart your program's service without having to reboot the whole machine or Ctrl+Alt+Delete. I made a previous … I'm curious
I have created many SickRage guides to help automate TV downloads for you media server. A popular one is the SickRage Windows install guide which works very well on Windows 7 and 8. However, thanks to some comments I have found out that the Visual Basic script does not always … I'm curious
I have created many guides for the Raspberry Pi as a media server, while the RPi mostly holds its own there are lags and freezes. I think people expect too much of the low-powered beast sometimes, after all it was created for learning programming and development – not media servers. … I'm curious
OpenSSL can be used to create your own web server certificates for use with nginx or Apache. In this guide I show you how to create an SSL certificate using OpenSSL and configure your web server nginx to use the https protocol. I needed SSL certificates for use with reverse … I'm curious
NTV becomes an excellent experience when you use it with Kodi XBMC, a free media center for all operating systems. Kodi, previously XBMC, has a plug in system which allows you to install virtually any add on for use with IPTV. The friendly developers at Xunity have created a Kodi … I'm curious
Stephen304 recently created a small program named BitCannon which gives you your own personal torrent site which is a backup of KickAssTorrents. You can search in it, download torrent files just like on KickAssTorrents but from your own machine. The idea is that even if torrent sites continue to be … I'm curious