If you haven’t heard of Dirvish, it’s about time. It is a very neat, rsync and hardlink based backup solution, just like a pro version of Apple’s TimeMachine. What I want My setup is quite specific for my use case: Having used dirvish at work for a while I was still stuck with backup-manager on my…
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Bridged Xen on Debian Wheezy on a Hetzner Server
Xen (not XeServer, btw!) seems to have taken a bak-seat recently, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora concentrating on KVM and Debian silently neglecting it. This is reflected in documentation, there is a lot of outdated stuff around, especially about bridged setups. Same occurs to packages, at least in Debian Wheezy (NB: I also tried on testing, same results with…
HowTo: VPN between FritzBox and Sophos UTM (was: Astaro UTM) with DynDNS
After searching ans trying quite a lot, I finally managed to connect my Sophos UTM 9 (which is very nice and free for hime users!) to my FritzBox. Especially the fact that I don’t have a fixed IP address at home makes this a bit tricky. Setup The UTM is running as a virtual machine…
HowTo: Create a simple Tag Cloud for existing HTML content using JS with jQuery
Everybody loves tag clouds. Hopefully, otherwise I spent an hour for nothing creating one for http://www.doerflinger.org. There are a lot of plugins for jQuery, or external libs etc. for creating tab clouds, most times with fancy AJAX calls, JSON processing and a neat database backend. We only need plain jQuery and for some sexyness the…
HowTo install Ubooquity on QNAP
Ubooquity is a very nice little server which scans your eBooks and Comics and displays them in a tablet friendly way. It is Java-based and runs fine on your Desktop, but if you’re running a (QNAP-)NAS which already stores all your books, why not have them served nicely. Prerequisites I did this on A QNAP…