How-to: Raspberry Pi tutorial part 3: Web & file hosting with Webmin & Virtualmin

[easyreview title=”Complexity rating” icon=”geek” cat1title=”Level of experience required, to follow this how-to.” cat1detail=”You’ll need to keep your wits about you!” cat1rating=”4″ overall=”false”] Contents Part 1: Getting started with the Raspberry Pi Part 2: Creating/restoring an image of the Pi’s SD card Part 3: Using the Raspbery Pi to host multiple web sites and as a …

How-to: Raspberry Pi tutorial part 2: SD card backup/restore

[easyreview title=”Complexity rating” icon=”geek” cat1title=”Level of experience required, to follow this how-to.” cat1detail=”This is wizard-driven. Very simple. You’ll need to be able to burn a CD, nothing more taxing than that.” cat1rating=”1″ overall=”false”] Contents Part 1: Getting started with the Raspberry Pi Part 2: Creating/restoring an image of the Pi’s SD card Coming up – …

How-to: Raspberry Pi tutorial part 1: Getting started

[easyreview title=”Complexity rating” icon=”geek” cat1title=”Level of experience required, to follow this how-to.” cat1detail=”The geek factor is quite high here, but this process is not particularly taxing.” cat1rating=”2.5″ overall=”false”] Contents Part 1: Getting started with the Raspberry Pi Part 2: Creating/restoring an image of the Pi’s SD card Part 3: Using the Raspbery Pi to host …

Review: Geek’s top 5 Christmas tech gifts for 2013

As you know, Dummy and I are constantly on the lookout for good-value, great gadgets. Are you stuck for gift ideas for the tech-lover in your life? Look no further. Dummy has already offered you his “top five” list; here’s mine. Network-enabled media streamer: Roku LT I’ve yet to review this device, but I bought …

How-to: Overcome “critical temperature” problem with CloneZilla

In case you don’t know, Clonezilla is an excellent (and free) disk/partition imaging tool. It’s essentially a customised Linux distribution. You boot from a CD and then follow a text-mode wizard to backup or restore images of hard drives or other storage devices. You can see the process in action in my Raspberry Pi SD …

Easily host your own web sites | part 1: hardware

Contents Part 1: Hardware Part 2: Server Part 3: Networking Part 4: Web design (DIY) Part 5: Web design (geek/hacker) There is no shortage of cheap web hosting companies, offering packages from pennies per month. If you’re looking for more control and flexibility and you’re not planning to host a mission-critical eCommerce website though, self-hosting …