The Investigatory Powers Bill has now passed as law in the United Kingdom, meaning the UK Government has been provided with a wider reach and fewer restrictions over their ability to track the home internet usage of every British resident. Now is the time to start considering a more robust solutio...
SSH is one of those tools that once you learn you wonder how you ever lived without it. Today, we'll cover some tricks to pimp your SSH workflow using the ~/.ssh/config file.
SSH (Secure Socket sHell) provides a secure way to access another computer. The most common us...
One of the most popular pieces on this site was an article I wrote just over a year and a half ago on how to set up an affordable and small home server. It proved wildly popular, I think, because of the ProLiant's modest price point and ease of use. However, that was back in early 2015. We're now...
Any audiophile will attest to compiling albums well into the hundreds, or even thousands. When a music collection grows, it can become harder to keep it well managed.
The main problem with managing a music collection is, generally, each collector has their own way of archiving their music. We all...
With the recent announcement of the official docker package for raspberry pi the linuxserver.io team have stepped up production of docker images for the popular armhf platform.
At the time of writing we have over 30 images available covering different genres from well known download apps like s...
For a while now, LinuxServer has become a name in the Docker community. Combining ease-of-use with some of the most popular applications available for those with home servers. To date, we've had over 6 million combined pulls on our images and there is a level of pride we hold in what we have achieve...
We are ecstatic to announce that our docker images have been pulled over 6 million times! The time and effort gone into writing and maintaining our images has clearly paid off as we have seen a steady increase in usage of our images over the last year. While we have many different images and applica...
It’s too soon to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack from consumer electronics. To deprecate a universally standard interface for anything should require a very good reason, “courage” is not a good reason in my book.
On a technical level there is no solid reason to remove the jack today as there was f...
This seems to generate a lot of questions and queries so thought I’d do a quick walkthrough.
First of all you need to install MariaDB, now one of the stipulations of Nextcloud is that it requires binary logging to be enabled on the MariaDB server. I’ve already got one instance of...