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VMPlayer is a great alternative to VirtualBox to test out new software. Virtual Machines are your digital playground for evaluating new software to avoid messing with your production environment (likely your home media server) and breaking something. In the last post I showed you how easy it is to install … I'm curious
Test environments are incredibly useful for anyone who wants to tinker with new software. Virtual Machines lets you have a playground environment where you can test software before you install it on your actual home media server. I would bet most people do testing on their production environments. Your production … I'm curious
Google Chrome now shows certain torrent sites as malicious and evil. The reasons are probably political but given the open nature of torrents it is possible to get malicious software from using torrents or usenet for that matter unless you protect yourself. A VPN won't help against viruses but it … I'm curious
Spotweb is a usenet indexing software very popular in the Netherlands. Spotweb has a simple interface for displaying the latest spots and associated nzbs. The Spotweb framework provides a newznab compatible API that can be used as a personal indexer with automation software like Sonarr, SickRage, CouchPotato, Headphones, Mylar, LazyLibrarian … I'm curious
BitTorrent Sync has gotten heavy on resources so users are looking for alternatives to run on low-powered devices like the Raspberry Pi. Enter Syncthing which is written in go and has a significantly lower memory footprint compared to BitTorrent Sync. You can run the Syncthing server on Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, … I'm curious
Memcached is useful for speeding up php sites like WordPress or interfaces like ownCloud. Memcached can be installed with libmemached support which is a C and C++ compiler which greatly speeds up processing for the cache. This guide assumes you are using php5-fpm with nginx or apache2 on Debian or … I'm curious
pyLoad is a tool used for downloading files from online storage lockers. These storage sites are usually plagued with nags like waiting for bandwidth restrictions to expire or slow downloading speeds. pyLoad will automatically download lists of files that you add from the storage lockers. pyLoad can be useful for … I'm curious