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The use of the Pi as a computer or computer program that manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network. This topic can cover software, hardware, feasibility, and security.

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Is the Raspberry Pi suitable for running continuously, 24/7?

I would like to run a headless machine to perform some basic automation and statistical generation (e.g. generating netstats, uploading to pvoutput.org), as well as any other trivial batch jobs that may spring up. As the RaspPi has been designed…
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Differences between Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Lite

What are the differences between Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie Lite? What's better for a Owncloud server: Raspbian Jessie or Raspbian Jessie Lite?
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How do I reboot at a specific time?

Is it possible to re-boot my Raspberry Pi at midnight each night? I know in Linux, you'd use crontab, but I can't seem to find /etc/crontab.
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Raspberry Pi as an Email Server

I just got my Pi today, and of course I can't even use it because I got the wrong HDMI to DVI converter but that's besides the point and question. My question is the following: I have decided to ditch Gmail and to setup my own email server. First I…
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Configuring the Raspberry Pi for Node.js

Reading a book on Single Page Web Applications I came to a paragraph that got me thinking: Node.js is non-blocking and event-driven. In a nutshell, this means a single Node.js instance on modest hardware can handle tens or hundreds of thousands of…
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Setting up a Ruby on Rails Server

I am thinking of buying a raspberry pi, because I want to host a personal website. I am using a UK Internet provider (Virgin Media), and I want to use my internet connection to allow access to my website! I have found quite a few resources for…
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How can I mitigate the need for manual intervention with remotely deployed Raspberry Pis?

I'm working on a project that makes use of Raspberry Pis which will be deployed to several locations. They have special hardware attached to it for automation purposes, and run a web-service (that I wrote) to access the hardware. We will…
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How Can I Emulate An x86 CPU on a Raspberry Pi with Qemu?

NOTE: I am aware that this question has been asked before HERE, but after having followed that question step by step, troubleshooted on my own and having done plenty of research on the internet to try and find a solution, I have been unable to run…
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How can I compile Android applications?

I want to use the pi as a continuous integration server. One type of the software are Android applications. Is it possible to have the Android SDK or something similar to compile Android apps? I didn't find the Android SDK for arm on the official…
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Power TV on/off

I'm looking for a solution to wake up my LCD TV. With the xset command I'm able to put the TV in different power saving modes: xset dpms force standby xset dpms 0 30 60 0 = standby 30 sec = suspend 60 sec = off I need a solution to wake the TV…
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How to prevent Raspberry Pi memory allocation failure?

I have installed a Terraria server on my Raspberry Pi (Version B Revision 2) yesterday. I followed this tutorial on Reddit. I used the latest version of Raspbian provided by NOOBS: I just installed mono-complete instead of just the runtime I also…
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Difference between Ubuntu Server and Raspberry Pi

I have an Ubuntu Server set up that shares files online, has a web server, streams to PS3, iPad, etc. I also recently acquired a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian installed. What exactly is the difference? What I mean is: Do I have any real use for the…
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isc-dhcp-server needs to be restarted after reboot

I'm having an issue with isc-dhcp-server. When I reboot I can see that it loads because it says "Starting LSB: DHCP server ...". However when trying to connect a PXE node to the server it does not work and I need to exectute "sudo service…
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How can I connect to my RPi NFS server using version 4?

I've set my Raspberry Pi up as an NFS server, but I cannot connect to it with NFS version 4. However, version 3 works. From my Kubuntu 13.04 client: $ sudo mount -t nfs -o proto=tcp,port=2049,vers=4 192.168.1.91:/export /mnt/pi -v mount.nfs: timeout…
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Use the Raspberry Pi as a Git server

How do I settup Git as a Git server like GitHub, so I can create private repositories, etc.? I have installed LAMP. It's up and running smoothly and also Git with GITWEB works perfect. The only thing I don't get is how to use it as a server for my…
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