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Build your own web server at home

Many of us have powerful internet connections at home with symmetrical upload and download speeds. Let's build a web server to take full advantage of all that bandwidth! Some pre-flight checks before we dive in: * We will be replacing your existing router with pfSense and re-configuring the network.

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Why I left Windows

I love the personal computer as an idea. It's open and accessible to everyone, endlessly configurable, ubiquitous and empowering. Be it a Mac, x86 clone or more niche machines like a Raspberry Pi, the personal computer has been a driver of innovation and creativity for the better part

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PDF printing on Windows Server 2003...in 2023 😱

I really enjoy making old technology do things once thought impossible. This past winter, my organization wanted to explore what it would take to produce PDFs of invoices from our depreciated Windows NT Jbase accounting application. Natively, the app can only send print jobs to NT printers on the server