A new Ubuntu based server I have set up recently had a power failure which unexpectedly resulted in the box not booting again. There were actually two problems: fsck failed on the data mount because one of the data drives apparently had failed. It took forever but eventually prompted for user input "S" to skip … Continue reading headless server fun →

The company I work for recently had the requirement to securely exchange files between several computers, some on site, several others off site. This data consisted in part of sensitive data which is covered by the German Bundesdatenschutzgesetz. Somebody suggested using DropBox because it is so simple to use. I had to deny this request … Continue reading Bittorrent Sync, a secure DropBox alternative →