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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, ...

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I actually use HP Microserver (1st gen) as my home storage/backup server. The CPU is really slow and has no hardware support for encryption. I encrypt everything, therefore I'm not able to fully make ...

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Media files, data synchronization, and remote backups, oh my! Home computing has advanced to a point where it's practical to run your own home server, and we're running down the five best tools for ...