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During the DevOps work at the company I like flushing the browser history, clean recently accessed directories and some temporary files. Having to work with Windows 7 in a company domain (Windows 7 – company policy), the temporary directories and installer cache is filling up quickly. A good system cleaner Unfortunately there is no easy accessible Windows Tool…
This is how to quickly deploy a SSH public key to a remote linux server. Afterwards automation tools like ansible, chef or puppet should be used. AWS is a good opportunity to easily setup your infrastructure. A SSH key can be managed using the AWS Key-Management. But other (less expensive) cloud provider send out initial…
Cyanognemod on your bq Aquaris M5 phone with latest Android security fixes? Here you go. Update 2015-12-15: Since the latest cyanogenmod releases the new firmware is needed. Otherwise the phone goes mad with rebooting and strange sensor behaviour. As I don’t want to mess around with my phone I returned to original bq stock firmware and…
In the past my favorite mobile phones were part of the Google Nexus family. The latest phone I owned was the Nexus 4. Even today this is one of the best Android phones. Now Google dropped the device from update to the latest official Android version. “Buy Nexus 5x.” Honorably, the Nexus 4 received all…
For installation of Kodi (known as XBMC) on raspberry pi (rpi2) there are several distributions you can choose: Xbian OpenELEC OSMC (Open Source Media Center) RaspBMC (continued as OSMC) OSMC is actually in development, but fits to most of my needs and works out of the box. All other distributions are recommendable, whereas I like Xbian the most…
This will show how to setup iptables, ip6tables for Xen on Debian using iptables-persistent. Example config for HTTP, HTTPS, SSH server with IPv4 and IPv6. Install iptables-persistent, a boot-time loader for netfilter rules, using apt-get. apt-get install iptables-persistent During install a dialog will show up asking for snapshotting IPv4/IPv6 rules to files and use them…