In 1981, the coinop arcade video game era was in its golden age. And no game was more advanced than Polybius. But then one night, all the Polybius games disappeared suddenly. What happened?
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Have you heard any good web hosting jokes? I haven't. I tried to find some.
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Naming servers is one of the underrated dark arts of sysadmin life. Don't use something lame like "server1" or some clever encapsulation of prod vs. test and a four-digit number. Spice up your virtual life with a few of our suggestions.
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Gopher was all the rage in the early 90s before the World Wide Web took over. Let's take a look at this old school protocol and get a Gopher server running on a modern system.x
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What the heck is BGP and why should you care? Is it relevant to your day-to-day computing? Yes, but it may be a bit more involved than you need.
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Admit it - you bought systems you're not using. We've all done it! You see a good deal and can't resist. Or you have a grand vision for a vast digital empire but it never quite seems to get done (yet!). What do you do with all the spare LowEndBoxes you have lying around? Other than tracking them with MyIdlers, of course. There's a number of things you could consider doing with them to make the world a better place.
Read More about Put Your Idlers to Work for a Good Cause! What To Do With All That Spare Horsepower You Have Lying Around
Want to play D&D 5e with an AI GM? That's what AI Realm promises. I give it a spin and find it has some strengths and some weaknesses, and learn a little bit about what makes gaming satisfying for me.
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Like every other subsystem, Linux can't decide on just one filesystem. Which one (ext4, XFS, btrfs) is best for you?
Read More about Before You Format: ext4, XFS, and btrfs Differences Explained (And Which One You Should Pick)
Synology has recently implemented some pretty user-hostile policies, which means my long-term love affair with them is going to end in heartbreak.
Read More about They Used to Be Good, But Now They’ve Turned to Evil: The Synology End Game
Have you ever whitelisted an IP? Maybe you've run a sanity check on server? Perhaps had a service that's hung? Maybe you've had a housekeeping script, or wondered if a particular platform supports something natively? Well, next time you look in the mirror, you've got a low-down, dirty bigot looking back at you, according to the Linux Foundation.
Read More about You’re a Filthy Bigot, According to the Linux Foundation. Here Are the Offensive Terms They Missed.
Recently I came across a cool app that's self-hostable. Unfortunately, the mobile app can't talk to my backend.
Read More about Bring Your Own Server: The Business Model I Wish Would Take Off
There’s a certain kind of person who sees a 128MB OpenVZ VPS and says “Yes, this is exactly what I need.” That person might be laughed at in enterprise IT circles, but around here, we call them family.
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There's a thread on LowEndTalk about a user who apparently blew past his bandwidth allotment like a caffeinated ferret discovering the “download all” button on the Library of Congress. And now he has an $800 bandwidth bill.
Read More about What Happens if You Exceed Your Bandwidth Allotment? An $800 Bill?
You'd think an organization that is devoted to blocking unwanted spam would be beloved by the Internet. After all, who wants an inbox full of get-rich-quick scams, Viagra knockoffs, and phishing malware? Unfortunately, the most visible company claiming to provide this service - Spamhaus - is widely reviled.
Read More about Judge, Jury, and Wannabe Executioner: The Arrogance of Spamhaus and Why They’re Reviled
Anubis is software that "weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests". That is a clever, poetic description for this software, which has an interesting pedigree and a noble mission.
Read More about Weigh the Soul of Incoming HTTP Requests with Anubis and Defeat AI Scrapers!
LowEndBox recently crested the 6,000 posts mark! That's only 445 days after we got to 5,000.
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Debian 13 "Trixie" will be released in less than 48 hours! Let's see what's new.
Read More about Here Comes Trixie! Debian 13 To Be Released in 48 Hours!
This morning, LowEndTalk member @ralf shared news of an AWS tragedy. The title of the thread is "Do your own backups (AWS deleted person's 10-year account and all data without warning)". Now, before I even opened the thread, I knew what the community's reaction would be: do your own offsite backups. This is practically the sacred creed of the LowEnd world.
Read More about PSA: Your Data is Not Safe on Just One Cloud (AWS Nuked a 10-Year Account and All Data Without Warning)
About 34% of the web is still powered by HTTP/1.1 and that protocol will likely come under severe attack starting on Wednesday. Get a preview of what's in store for the latest security headache.
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ConfigServer is closing! Talk about end of an era. These products will not stop working after August 31st, but you'll never be able to move the license or reinstall again.
Read More about Venerable ConfigServer is Closing Down on August 31, 2025. Is There Any Hope for the Project to Continue? Maybe…
Just.Hosting contacted us to feature the announcement of their new AI assistant. We run it through its paces to find its strengths and weaknesses.
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The Year 2038 problem is well-known among Unix users. Debian is rolling out a fix in Debian 13 "Trixie"...11 years after OpenBSD fixed it.
Read More about Starting to Catch Up: Linux Finally Addresses the Epochalypse that OpenBSD Fixed in 2014
Today we celebrate System Administrator Day! This holiday falls on the last Friday in July and salutes all of the hard-working sysadmins around the world.
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If you're in the United Kingdom, get ready to fight against your fellow citizens for access to Wikipedia. Why? Because quotas are coming. What...quotas?
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What do you do when you've got a lot of LowEndBoxes that you've accumulated over the years? Let them all expire? Naw...if you're FAT32, you start a MegaThread to trade!
Read More about Pssst…Have You Seen This Secret Megathread on LowEndTalk?
The "Tell Dell" survey is supposed to be confidential. The results are definitely supposed to be. But they were leaked to Business Insider...
Read More about Dell Wishes Its Employees Hadn’t “Told Dell” to Business Insider
Our Happy 15th Birthday, LowEndTalk thread is still going gangbusters. Lots of great celebration deals shared by providers. Check it out!
Read More about 1000 Comments – 87,000 Views – The LowEndTalk Birthday Party Continues!
You have a domain renewal bill for $265 that shows up in your mailbox. Is it legit?
Read More about Don’t Fall for This Domain Renewal Scam That is Bombarding People’s Postal Mailboxes!
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