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After spending a good part of my weekend fiddling with VSFTPD, I’m very happy that I managed to get it to work properly. My goal was to create a simple, anonymous and private FTP server for my home network. It should facilitate sharing files between my machines. Configuring the Server If you’d like to try out my configuration all you need to do is look at the following commands and replace your configuration file with mine. The configuration file will be provided later in the article. ...

Hello everyone! After following the /r/homelab reddit for a while I’ve decided to give it a try and make myself my own homelab environment. I don’t have access to expensive server equipment nor do I have the means to acquire it, so I will be using an old HP Laptop which has quite a few resources, it is a bit stronger than the average Raspberry PI. The laptop has 11GB of RAM memory, a 740GB disk and an Intel i7-4702MQ CPU. I have it for almost 4 years now and I’ve only used it for a few months, I decided to re-purpose it. If you’re asking yourself why didn’t I used the laptop, well, the laptop is absolutely horrible to work with! HP has made a terrible consumer product, it wasn’t targeted to business users and it is sluggish (with windows) and made of cheap plastic. On Windows HP has failed to provide basic working drivers, the laptop freezes every minute or so. ...

In this short article I will try to introduce you to the Tor Project and what can you do in order to help it. What is the Tor project? The EFF describes the Tor project as: Tor is a service that helps protect your anonymity while using the Internet by obfuscating your online behavior and by obscuring your identity from unwanted surveillance from other users, governments, or corporations. When you use the Tor software, your IP address remains hidden, and it appears that your connection is coming from the IP address of a Tor exit relay, which can be anywhere in the world. Tor also allows access to .onion hidden services, which allow people to publish information while hiding their location. ...