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Get up on my cloud: What to consider when choosing private cloud software applications

Getting off of the corporation cloud and onto your own, self-hosted, open source-based is an arduous task. We use a lot of web based services these days and…

Post date December 6, 2015
Post categories In Server

No Title: Working around the missing –title parameter in Gnome Terminal

About a year ago the Gnome developers took away the option to run Gnome terminal with the –title parameter. This allowed you to give the terminal window a…

Post date December 3, 2015
Post categories In Desktop, Linux

Decrypting drives using the command line

Encrypted USB drives are fairly easy to use on most linux desktops. Whatever automount supplier you’re running with will pop up a dialogue window asking for the password…

Post date November 19, 2015
Post categories In Linux

They finally let us: Trying out the Let’s Encrypt beta

“Greetings from Let’s Encrypt, mail@brokkr.net.” Greetings to you too. It’s been quite a wait so I guess a bit of formality is in order. Now, can we please…

Post date November 19, 2015
Post categories In Server

Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 5: Relaying from the local network

Understanding how Postfix makes decisions regarding relay, i.e. whether or not to pass on the mail submitted to it.

Post date November 1, 2015
Post categories In Linux, Server

Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 4: Virtual domains

Replacing local accounts with virtual accounts – and understanding the difference

Post date October 26, 2015
Post categories In Linux, Server

Disabling functions key shortcuts in XFCE4-terminal

Disabling functions key shortcuts in XFCE4-terminal (so that they’re available for ncurses programs)

Post date October 25, 2015
Post categories In Desktop

Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 3: Opening up to the outside

Testing the limits of local: System user email on a host accessible from the internet

Post date October 22, 2015
Post categories In Linux, Server