For the past several years, I've used a custom-built file server at my house. I've upgraded it many times, but it began life, as near as I can recall, in April 2000. When I say "upgraded", I mean the ...

Mention the phenomenon called Shadow IT — and someone will likely mention Dropbox. Shadow IT happens when departments or individual employees use technologies that aren’t sanctioned by IT — something ...

Would you pay $3,600 a year just to store your files? That’s the price Google quoted for 20TB of cloud storage, an eye-watering sum that forces you to question the value of convenience. For many, the ...

Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. With three desktop machines (Kubuntu, Win XP and a testbed, which is currently running ReactOS) and a laptop (Xubuntu) in use at home, our IT ...

Upload and download files on your home PC from anywhere by turning it into a personal FTP server. With a home FTP server, you can upload and download files on your home hard drive from the office, ...

If you've been working with networks for any length of time, you've no doubt had a server's hard disk fill up, which usually means it's time to have users clear out files they no longer use. You can ...

Thanks to its solid package compatibility, useful HATs, and resourceful community of tinkerers, the Raspberry Pi is easily one of the most versatile devices you can buy for your computing projects.

Virtual machine programs such as VMWare allow you to quickly install a number of different operating systems on one machine. The majority of these virtual machine programs allow you to load an ISO, or ...

My current XBMC box has taken a big hit, having 2 of 3 drives fail on me. While I am busy trying to recover my 3TB movie drive, I got my current box working again with a new OS drive and some existing ...

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. In other words, if you have a need to define a service that requires more than one Docker container to function, ...