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We all have an old computer at home, that hasn't been used in years, but because it still works, we hadn't had the heart to trow it away. Well its time of misery has come to an end, we are going to convert it to a home data server. Using a torrent client to download files from the web, and running a ftp server on the machine, we will make your personal PC's hard drive love you more, by not filling it with hundreds of gigabytes of data (read: movies, music), and making it available to any PC on your home network. But why use Ubuntu server? I hear you ask, well I assume you are going to use an old computer and the server edition doesn't use nearly as much resources as the desktop one or the Windows os, you can install Ubuntu desktop if you have a more powerful...
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[AI summary] This is a detailed technical blog post outlining the setup and configuration of a new Linux system. The author walks through various steps and configurations related to system services, hardware, software tools, and user preferences.
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| | ketanvijayvargiya.com

I recently setup a Samba share on a Raspberry Pi on my home network. As part of that, I used a 5 TB Western Digital My Passport Ultra as the storage layer. I wanted to encrypt it since it's going to store a lot of personal content. That way, I won't have to worry about leaking any of that data if I lost the disk. The following post lists down the Linux commands I used to turn on that encryption. And while I tried this on a Raspberry Pi, the commands are generic and should work on any Linux system.
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In this post we continue our look at BGP - the protocol used to route traffic across the interconnected Autonomous Systems (AS) that make up the Internet - by clarifying the difference between eBGP and iBGP and then starting to dig into the basics of actual BGP configuration. We'll see how to establish peering connections with neighbors and to return a list of current sessions with useful information about each.
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