Getting things done: Making your Gmail (or Googlemail) Inbox a business functional CRM for “free”
If you are a small business, offering services, you probably are working out of your Email inbox rather than copy and paste your stuff over cloud-based business tools such a…
Xenserver: Upgrade to Xenserver 6.6 (Alpha3) with XenCenter and over NFS ( the no CD upgrade)
Inspired by the Xen Orchestra Team https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/migrate-from-xenserver-6-2-to-6-5/ I wanted to upgrade my hosts to the latest Alpha for testing, but I didn’t want to mess around with burning a DVD and…
Windows 10 – Conexant smartaudio HD no sound even though the driver is installed and OK
Upgraded an elderly Advent Laptop with a Conexant Smartaudio HD sound chip to Windows 10. It all went generally smooth and giving it some RAM (2GB) the Laptop runs well enough…
Protect your Lastpass Vault to make it more harden against attacks
The News has broken, Lastpass has been the victim of an attack. https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.html/ While it’s not know if and how much impact that has at the moment, I’m personally not…
Remmina & Windows 10- fixed: Unable to connect to RDP server
Got this when trying to connect to a Windows 10 Technical Preview using Remmina after a Windows upgrade. Somewhere, somehow the key must have changed. I fixed that by deleting…
Ubuntu: How to get XenCenter running under Wine and connect to a Xenserver
Update 02.06.15: added Tahoma2 fonts to make it look better Update 05.12.15: Some Issues with disconnects from the server seem to be resolved with Wine 1.8 RC1.staging. Using it now…
Google Chrome App Launcher didn’t disappear. Here is how to install it for Windows and Linux.
Primarily under my Linux Desktops but also under windows I like to have the Google Chrome App Launcher button to quickly find and open bookmarks or “Apps” installed into Google…
Ubuntu : zram memory compression (compressed swap in ram)
Update 02.03.2015: added (modified) Centos / Redhat: Update 24.11.2022: added (modified) Promox 7.3x / Debian 11 A successor to compcache is zram which is fully integrated in the Linux kernel…
Ubuntu : zram memory compression (compressed swap in ram)
Update 02.03.2015: added (modified) Centos / Redhat: Update 24.11.2022: added (modified) Promox 7.3x / Debian 11 A successor to compcache is zram which is fully integrated in the Linux kernel…
Debian / Ubuntu – Install apt-cacher-NG as package proxy for Debian / Ubuntu and Centos Fedora clients
This is nothing really new, but definitely worth tracking because it just make sense and works fine. If you either virtualise or have otherwise many Debian / Ubuntu / Centos /…