PC as a home server - Part 2

When your server is encrypted, you have to type a password each time it boots - in order to do that, you need a monitor and a keyboard hooked up to the server. You can imagine that it would be super annoying to go to the server physical location just to type a password. In the case of a server being off-site, encryption would be a deal breaker. But there is a way around it - SSH.

PC as a home server - Part 1

I've used a QNAP TS-212 NAS for about 6 years. During that time I had two disk failures (and the first one taught me that RAID1 is not a waste of space), second happening last autumn. Since this setup was bugging me for quite some time, I decided to build a PC that will replace it. With this post I'll describe installation process of Fedora Server Edition on double software RAID1 - one for an operating system and another one for a data storage.

cxxblog - an excuse to start a blog

Given the current situation with COVID-19, it so happened that I have a whole lot more free time to spend on side projects. One day I was reading a reddit cpp thread about web development in C++ where I stumbled upon library called Wt. As I have lots of experience developing desktop GUI applications, Wt caught my attention - so I started learning more about it.

About 4 weeks later, I'm writing my first post...

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