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
Category: Geeky Stuff
RaspberryPi Nginx Secure Reverse Proxy Server
Intro So we have our RaspberryPi ready, with MinibianPi installed and secured. If you’re like me, there’s already a ton of ideas about what kind of systems I want to set up in my house, and this is just from browsing and reading some awesome blog posts. What many people forget is that when you’re… Continue reading RaspberryPi Nginx Secure Reverse Proxy Server
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!
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
Raspberry Pi as a Torrentbox
This article is a follow-up of my earlier post about how to run a Raspberry Pi box as an always-on NAS box. I figured that since I only have a theoretical maximum of 4 concurrent clients in the house, and none of them are intensive users, I might as well squeeze out some more juice… Continue reading Raspberry Pi as a Torrentbox
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
How I Setup My PHP Dev Env: Part 2
This post is the second part of a 2-part series on how I setup my PHP Development Environment using Windows 7 as a base operating system and a basic LAMP server running on Ubuntu installed on Oracle VirtualBox. (You can read the first part here) Section 1: phpMyAdmin To be able to manage MySQL conveniently,… Continue reading How I Setup My PHP Dev Env: Part 2
How I Setup My PHP Dev Env: Part 1
This is a post long overdue. Originally started as a favor to a good friend of mine, this now has also turned into my personal quest to document my efforts to set up my PHP Development Environment on my MacBook. DISCLAIMER: This is some geeky stuff, you have been warned. So, without further ado, let’s… Continue reading How I Setup My PHP Dev Env: Part 1
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