Last year whenever people asked me what to use when building a home server, I'd tell them to use Linux or FreeBSD because there was absolutely nothing from Microsoft under a few hundred dollars. There ...

Ever since the announcement of the Raspberry Pi, sites all across the Internet have offered lots of interesting and challenging uses for this exciting device. Although all of those ideas are great, ...

Ask any Linux enthusiast, and they’ll tell you how awesome an operating system Linux can be. (Well, except Bryan Lunduke, who will say it sucks before he says it’s awesome.) For the desktop user, the ...

I'm looking around for some solutions to get servers to "persistently phone home" to me. The situation is as follows: I admin several servers floating around the internet on home IP addresses. These ...

For nearly three years, I've had a great little home server based on an MSI Wind 'nettop' PC (dual core Atom CPU), hackintoshed with OS X 10.5.6. That was more or less the current version of OS X when ...

Once upon a time, people lived in caves and hunted animals with spears. Then, they recorded things from the TV onto small black cartridges filled with magnetic tape. Finally, in 1999, the Digital ...

When it comes to running a home server, there’s no shortage of excellent options to choose from. Over the years, I’ve tried both Proxmox and Ubuntu Linux in various configurations. While Proxmox has a ...