Pimp My PC: From HDD to SSD

Samsung 850 Pro 256GB

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything to upgrade my PC. My last upgrade was “out-of-the-box”: a Ducky Shine 3 full-sized mechanical keyboard to replace my flimsy Rapoo wireless keyboard that kept me away from any serious games. This time, I’m addressing a more performance-related aspect of my PC. What’s The Issue I consider my PC good… Continue reading Pimp My PC: From HDD to SSD

Preparing a Secured Minimum System for Your RaspberryPi Server

Table of Contents Intro Disclaimer Operating System Selection Installing MinibianPi Creating New User With Administrative Privileges Securing The Operating System Regenerating Unique Host Keys Setting Up Key Pair Authentication for SSH Disabling Password Authentication and Root Login Installing Iptables and Setting Up Basic Firewall Rules Installing fail2ban Getting The System Up-to-Date Intro A RaspberryPi isn’t… Continue reading Preparing a Secured Minimum System for Your RaspberryPi Server

To The Clouds We Go!

Google's datacenter, lit by thousands of blue LEDs from the servers' status panels.

I’ve been messing around with my WordPress installation somewhat in the past few weeks, and I did that while I was gawking at the prospect of getting into the Game of Clouds. You see, the thought of having my own VPS for me to tinker with has refused to leave my mind these past few… Continue reading To The Clouds We Go!

Dynamic DNS for Your Pi

My last two posts talked about how I used a Raspberry Pi to act as a low-power home server that now mainly serves two functions: as a NAS box and as a Torrentbox. Now, there are a multitude of other things that we can do with the Raspberry Pi, and a lot of them are… Continue reading Dynamic DNS for Your Pi

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Raspberry Pi as a NAS Box

I finally bought myself a Raspberry Pi Rev B from Element 14. I got it from an importer in Bandung, and I decided I’d go for a little shopping myself to the computer store to get me the tidbits. So here’s my kit. Raspberry Pi Revision B (Element 14 UK) 8GB Class 10 SDHC with… Continue reading Raspberry Pi as a NAS Box

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Ambidextrous No More

So I’ve been visiting RTC Denpasar twice, annoying my friend about twice a week for three weeks, and scouring the interwebs to get a hold of this: Sadly, nobody had it. Word is that the supply was halted from I don’t know where. Bottom line is that there is no telling when a resupply would… Continue reading Ambidextrous No More

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