Yesterday evening somebody desperately fought in despair with Packer, the younger sister of Vagrant. The goal was to create a testing farm of n machines for Virtualbox and make them accessible via SSH for further automated software testing/rollout. For me, this is much easier by using a simple bashscript. This morning I’ve made one even before the very first cup of coffee. #!/bin/bash # Pfad …Read more

Lately I received the following invitation for an online meeting in a network of consultants: The EU-US Privacy Shield has been overturned by the ECJ. What does this mean for companies and service providers? Which services may still be used and which data may be transferred? Exactly my topic and I continued further reading. The link at the end of the mail led to a meeting room on the platform …Read more

Terminal Server - A look back The second part of the home office series is about terminalservers. The concept is quite old and we can’t avoid a short excursion into the past: It leads us back to the late 40s and 50s of the last century right to the beginnings of computer history. Computing time on such huge Von-Neumann-Computers was limited, very expensive and of course sometimes secret. …Read more

Home Office Workstations - Introduction How to integrate a corporate home office securely? And preferably also in a cost-effective, transparent and sustainable way! Some people might have been busy on this question due to Corona lockdown. As an external contractor, I used to stand at the sideline more than once and looked into the big arena of swarm idiocy and stupidity. With this picture in mind, …Read more

At the beginning of the (first?) Corona lockdown in March 2020, I was advised during an nightly Jitsi meeting by a befriended admin from Hamburg about giving Hugo a chance. Probably just after I dropped a rant about Rapidweaver, my previous static site generator on the Mac. Making of blog.jakobs.systems The idea needed to grow for almost half a year, till August, when I finally found a test …Read more

Installing a Nextcloud instance is a snap. There are numerous tutorials and, on better NAS systems or hosting providers, even ready-to-use appliances that can be easily clicked together. When it comes to data backup, my observation is that the sources are rather limited and I would rather not use the few manuals that are available on the net. This blog post wants to help increase data protection …Read more