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. 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? 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. 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 idiocy1 and stupidity2. Read more