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IPVanish is a great VPN service growing in popularity. IPVanish provides plenty of bandwidth to allow fast downloads while being secured with encryption for maximum privacy and anonymity. IPVanish don't keep any logs so they take your privacy seriously. This guide shows you how to configure OpenVPN with IPVanish on … I'm curious
Virtual machine test environments make practicing a guide or new configuration efficient and productive. I use VM Workstation, VM Player is the free version, for testing guides in a closed development environment. I like to SSH into the Debian virtual machines. Instead of clicking on the console in VM Player, … I'm curious
NZBGet has grown in popularity due its low memory footprint and considerable power. Previously NZBGet had to be built from source and each time a new version was released you had to rebuild NZBGet. Using this method to install NZBGet you will easily be able to update to newer versions … I'm curious
On Windows machines hard drives automatically sleep and spin down when they are not in use. This theoretically extends the life of your USB or SATA hard drive. On Linux systems you often have to configure power saving parameters for your hard drive manually.
For the little Raspberry Pi and … I'm curious
A reverse proxy is a secure method of remotely accessing services on your home media server. Using nginx on any Linux based system (Ubuntu, Debian, Raspbian) you can access Headphones without having to remember the port number inside your home network. With a free dynamic dns address (guides: Linux) … I'm curious
I have previously posted about how to rebuild the Bananian kernel to include port multipler support so you can connect multiple hard drives to the Banana Pi through SATA. Thanks to Igor's images for Armbian and his build scripts it is ridiculously easy to make your own image that is … I'm curious
Network File System (NFS) was created by Sun Microsystems to share resources over networks. It is similar to SAMBA shares that are popular on Windows, Mac and Linux systems for their convenience. NFS shares are usually more popular on Linux systems, they may use less CPU overhead than SAMBA shared … I'm curious