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The HummingBoard i1 is a Raspberry Pi clone with serious upgrades for NAS or media server usage created by Solid Run. It packs a 1 Ghz processor, 512 MB of DDR3 memory and a gigabit port which makes serving media files and other data around your home considerably faster. Here … I'm curious
Usenet releases can be passworded causing frustration for users. Like Sabnzbd, NZBGet can discard passworded releases that your usenet indexer didn't catch it just requires a script configuration. The PasswordDetector script is written by several coders in python so it will work on all operating systems: Windows, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, … I'm curious
The usenet downloader NZBGet is built for performance. It is highly modular with many different settings to squeeze every last drop of power from your system, no matter how limited it may be. Some machines like Synology NAS, Raspberry and Banana Pi use ARM processors which are weaker and have … I'm curious
FTP is a simple way to transfer files from your Raspberry Pi to other devices. It is also the fastest method for transferring data between devices – at least faster than SAMBA (see Raspberry vs Banana Pi Benchmarks: Do SATA and Gigabit Matter?). If you are using your Raspberry … I'm curious
Minibian is an awesome lightweight Raspberry Pi distro based on Raspbian. It uses all the same repos so you should not notice any differences. It uses only 16MB of RAM on boot and takes up about 300MB on the SD card – so you only need a 1 GB SD … I'm curious
I have created many guides for the Raspberry Pi as a media server, while the RPi mostly holds its own there are lags and freezes. I think people expect too much of the low-powered beast sometimes, after all it was created for learning programming and development – not media servers. … I'm curious
Samba shares are useful for various reasons. They allow you to access a directory over a network from any device running virtually any software. You can create a samba share on your Raspberry Pi and make it available to Windows, Mac OSX and Linux machines. You can even access them … I'm curious