How to set up a home email server (without being spammed to death) by Stuart R. Kirk Why host your own mail? There are many reasons to host your own email. Perhaps you don't like the limits placed on you by your current ISP. Maybe they aren't willing to host the domain you want, or give you the access you want. And if they do fit your needs, they want to charge a small fortune. Maybe you want complete privacy. Or perhaps you just want to access your email from anywhere using a web-based frontend. The list goes on and on...

How to set up a home DNS server by Shannon Hughes Domain Name System The Domain Name System (DNS) is the crucial glue that keeps computer networks in harmony by converting human-friendly hostnames to the numerical IP addresses computers require to communicate with each other. DNS is one of the largest and most important distributed databases the world depends on by serving billions of DNS requests daily for public IP addresses. Most public DNS servers today are run by larger ISPs and commercial companies but private DNS servers can also be useful for private home networks. This article will explore some advantages of setting up various types of DNS servers in the home network.

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You'll find SUSE Linux RPM packages for several hundreds of free software projects which I try to keep up to date for SUSE Linux 10.1 (RC1), 10.0, 9.3, 9.2, and 9.1 (10.1, 10.0 and 9.3: built for both x86_64 and i686).

Freevo is an open-source home theatre PC platform based on Linux and a number of open-source audio/video tools. MPlayer and/or Xine can be used to play audio and video files in most popular formats. Freevo can be used both for a standalone PVR computer with a TV+remote, as well as on a regular desktop computer using the monitor and keyboard.

MythTV is a homebrew PVR project that I've been working on in my spare time. It's been under heavy development for almost four years, and is now quite useable and featureful.

LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.

WinLIRC allows you to transmit and receive standard infrared remote control signals. This allows you to control your computer using almost any standard infrared remote control. It also allows your computer to control other equipment which uses these signals (stereo equipment). WinLIRC is the Windows equivalent of LIRC, the Linux Infrared Remote Control program. WinLIRC (through version 0.6) was originally written by Jim Paris. Later releases are written and maintained on sourceforge.

What Is Cygwin? Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:

The MediaMVP Media Center (mvpmc) is a media player for the Hauppauge MediaMVP. It is a total replacement for the Hauppauge software, and can be booted onto the MediaMVP via tftp. mvpmc supports playing audio (mp3, ogg, wav, ac3) and video (mpeg1, mpeg2) from MythTV or ReplayTV digital video recorders. It can also play audio and video via HTTP, NFS, and CIFS. It is capable of playing internet radio via SlimServer. It can also display images (jpg, bmp, png) via NFS and CIFS.