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From the people who build the images: release notes, deep dives, guides and the occasional opinion.
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We've done a couple of articles about Pfsense hardware recently. With the Snooper's Charter arrival in the UK and our American brethren about to have their browsing data sold to…
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Welcome to our review of the QNAP TS-251A, something new here at LSIO. We reached out to QNAP to request a review unit and they kindly provided one to support the development of…
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This article will detail the steps required to passthrough your GPU to a guest VM which will in our case be a Windows 10 VM used for gaming. Yes, this is the exact same technology…
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Last week at Dockercon17 Docker unleashed Moby onto the world. This announcement divided opinion and, as expected from Docker Inc. these days, was pretty much a PR disaster. When…
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I picked up one of the new Raspberry Pi Zero W boards from ModMyPI almost as soon as I heard about it. So for my first project, I decided to set up FreshRSS, an RSS reader that…
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Piracy, it's everywhere: an unstoppable force that has aimed to subvert legitimate supply of entertainment since the dawn of motion pictures. Over the last few decades it has…
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Tvheadend is a comprehensive and full-featured piece of software that readily transforms your perception of TV and how it is accessed. However, this comprehensiveness comes at a…
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As discussed in the APU2 Review, the IP Bill has now been passed as law in the UK. Here is another solution that can be used as a pfSense router, the Jetway JBC313. Price£210.00…
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Well, with the January blues out the way, we can march on with the rest of the year and you can expect more excellent content from us! Moving forward, we will be posting update…
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The next step in the long line of things I've been doing to my HP ProLiant Gen8 Microserver was to give it some TV capability. Since moving house last year, the living room has…
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For many years I happily made do with the 802.11n capability of my Sky Fibre router. It worked, and I was happy. That was until I bought a Chromecast and a Raspberry Pi 3. My…
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The Investigatory Powers Bill has now passed as law in the United Kingdom, meaning the UK Government has been provided with a wider reach and fewer restrictions over their ability…