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ownCloud 3.0

Posted on February 4, 2012 by martijn

The ownCloud project just released ownCloud 3.0. A feature-rich solution for personal file storage, sharing and personal information management. ownCloud is written in PHP and uses a MySQL or SQLite backend. Setting up ownCloud on your own server or hosting-space is … Continue reading →

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Fix “IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length” messages in Linux

Posted on January 24, 2012 by martijn

Glancing trough the system-logging of one of my Internet VPS nodes, I noticed that the Kernel Ring Buffer (dmesg) was quite noisy with IPv6 Router Advertisement messages as: “IPv6 addrconf: prefix with wrong length 48″ Some research learned me that … Continue reading →

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Migrate Apple Time Capsules

Posted on January 14, 2012 by martijn

Just replaced my Apple Time Capsule with a newer one. Here’s what I found to be the best approach in moving data and time-machine backups to the new unit. Hook-up your Mac to an ethernet-port of the old time-capsule. You … Continue reading →

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Apple FileVault 2 on older Mac’s with SSD

Posted on October 20, 2011 by martijn

Apple’s FileVault2 is a valuable addition to OS X Lion. It offers full disk-encryption which I find to be something mandatory on notebooks these days. On ‘newer’ Apple MacBooks, say since the Intel i5 and i7 architecture, FileVault 2 has … Continue reading →

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TotalTerminal

Posted on August 2, 2011 by martijn

A small gem for OS X! TotalTerminal brings terminal access trough a hot-key. TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides a persistent “Visor Window”  which slides up or down when you press a hot-key. Website: http://totalterminal.binaryage.com/

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PL2303 Serial-USB on OSX Lion

Posted on July 24, 2011 by martijn

Here’s a way to get you PL2303-based Serial-USB adapter working with OS X Lion (10.7). Based on the osx-pl2303 project on github, I’ve built a kernel extension that works with OS X Lion. You can grab the kext file here … Continue reading →

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Short URL’s

Posted on June 13, 2011 by martijn

Just wrote a simple URL shortener in PHP. It generates shortened URL’s in the format “http://xbsd.nl/aBcD”, in which the aBcD part is a random four character string. You can give it a go over at http://www.xbsd.nl/url/. No spam or malicious … Continue reading →

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SparkleShare .. promising

Posted on March 1, 2011 by martijn

Back in the days, before cloud-based services like Dropbox or iDisk, I used to be a big-time user of iFolder. Desktop file-sync for all kinds of platforms with central versioned storage complete in your own control. Too bad current iFolder … Continue reading →

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MobileMe calendar in Evolution

Posted on December 30, 2010 by martijn

Now that the new MobileMe Calendar is based on the iCalendar and CalDAV
standards it becomes a lot easier to access your MobileMe Calendar trough third-party (non-Apple) calendaring tools. For now, we’ll show how to setup the calendar in Evolution, a common e-mail and calendar client on Linux and Unix desktops Continue reading →

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Stacklet, Images for Xen, KVM, VMWare and More

Posted on October 7, 2010 by martijn

Stacklet provides ready to run Linux images and templates for popular virtualization technologies like VMware, KVM and XEN.

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