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All My Operating Systems.

My very first computer was a mainframe IBM 360. Well, it wasn’t mine, nobody owned a computer back in the seventies. The 360 was the mainframe available at the university where I studied Electronics Engineering, the University of Palermo, in Italy. It ran under an operating system that was called DOS, an acronym for […]

Bandwidth or Throughput? What are they? What Should you look for?

Bandwidth and Throughput! There is a lot of confusion about these terms, what they mean, what you should care for.

Let’s try some definition first, and then let’s go into the details.

From the electrical perspective, Bandwidth is the max amount of frequency a cable can support without signal degradation. In the networking field, […]

How to Configure a Raspberry Pi as a DNS Server for the Home Network

This article is the continuation of the series “Using the Raspberry Pi as a Server for the Home Network” and describes a quick procedure to install and configure a DNS server on the RPi.

Remember that for best results you should first install the RPi server as described in my previous articles. This achieves the […]