Category: Blog
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Setting Up Debian as a Postfix Mail Server
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the point of setting the server up to be able to send emails. If you still need to setup your hypervisor and virtual server…
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Setting up Debian as a LAMP Server
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the point of setting up our LAMP stack on the a new Debian server. If you still need to setup your hypervisor, virtual server…
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Installing Virtualbox and Debian on Windows 10
This post is part of a larger series about Building a Cloud at Home For Free as part of building scalable web applications from the ground up. This post starts at the very beginning of setting up the servers. It assumes you are familiar with the game plan from the previous post mentioned above. Once…
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Building a Cloud For Free
This post explains how I am building my own cloud at home. One of my biggest goals is to do this for free, or for as close to free as possible. What will it do? Serve as a complete virtualized development environment for custom dynamic web applications Multimedia server including secure torrent downloader Use lots…
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Smooth Running Gun
He sat in a cafe at midnight on some rainy corner in some city; praying to the gods of espresso to give him the edge he would need tonight. A million moments, a million choices, a million decisions and consequences had taught Turner the lessons that led him to this moment. He felt mostly-sure he…
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36 Questions to Fall in Love with Anyone
Set One: 1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest? 2. Would you like to be famous? In what way? 3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why? 4. What would constitute a “perfect” day for you?…
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Lighting Struck
“The great oak tree had stood on a hill over the river, in a lonely spot on the estate. Eddie liked to come and look at that tree. It had stood there for hundreds of years, and he thought it would always stand there. Its roots clutched the hill like a fist with fingers sunk…