It’s been several months since I first started planning the homelab upgrade but I’ve finally got round to making the first steps. The initial step was to replace my Ubuntu based hypervisor with Proxmox. As the rest of my home network runs on the same host I couldn’t afford to leave it offline for long. … Read more
As the number of Linux systems you want to manage increases, you will begin to see a need for more integrated host and user management. This allows for single sign on so you don’t need to maintain credentials for every system and simplifies creating service users to perform tasks across the whole domain such as … Read more
Kodi has long been a favourite among media centre enthusiasts, its full screen interface gives a set-top-box like feel to your media PC and its remote control apps for iOS and Android make for a much better TV-watching experience than having to constantly reach for a keyboard and mouse. With version 18 Kodi also includes … Read more
In the enterprise it is common practice for the network administrator to filter or block certain content which may be inappropriate for a work or educational environment. By using open source technology it is possible to implement DNS level content blocking for your home network. Why block content? There are several reasons why one might … Read more
Whether due to a drive failure, a typo in a script or an overenthusiastic finger on the save key after an incorrect edit to a file, we’ve all at some point wished we’d taken backups more seriously. The problem, however, is that it can be time consuming to plan what needs to be backed up … Read more