According to Mike Kuketz security blog the android version of the NordVPN app transmits personal data to third parties. If you want to avoid calling it home use the openvpn app from f-droid and use the ovpn-files provided by NordVPN. There is also a tutorial on how to use the ovpn files on NordVPNs website. Little disadvantage: no pick of the VPN Server on the fly (e.g. according to speed). If you want to change the VPN Server you’d have to have the connection installed and switch to it manually.
Continue reading...February 2020
Nextcloud 18 with integrated office support
With the new version 18 called “Hub” Onlyoffice has found its way into natively into Nextcloud. You are now able to edit documents within nextcloud. No need to download anymore. Thank you Nextcloud for making a great product even better.
Continue reading...KODI Addon “Youtube” not working anymore ?
Here is the solution: https://github.com/jdf76/plugin.video.youtube/wiki/Personal-API-Keys
Continue reading...Uncomplicated Firewall ufw
UFW is a comfortable yet powerful interface for ip-tables. It is, thanks to ufw, now very easy to configure and monitor your firewall. Install UFW Uncomplicated Firewall should be installed by default, but if it is not installed on your system, you can install the package by typing: Check UFW Status Once the installation is completed you can check the status of UFW with the following command: UFW is disabled by default. If you never activated UFW before, the output will look like this: If UFW is activated, the output will look similar to the following: UFW Default Policies By...
Continue reading...Upgrading VMWare ESXi 6.7
Upgrading your VMWare ESXi instance is quite easy if you know how đ Enable SSH in your webinterface and login via SSH to the esx-shell. Download the patch via wget from https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search and enter following commands: Enable maintenance mode install the update from your datastore: Notice that the command is not “upgrade” which requieres to update all predecessing upgrade packages, but “install” which allows to install the Update directly. Finally reboot and disable the maintenance mode:
Continue reading...VMS with oracle virtual box instead of gnome boxes
Unfortunately Windows is still neccessary to do taxes online in Germany (with Elster – Elektronische Steuererklärung). Thats why I need to run Windows on a virtual machine on top of my Debian 10 / Gnome System. With Gnome theres “Gnome Boxes” coming, a interface for QUEMU. While Boxes allows to install and run VMs quite easily working on it through a virtual Windows Interface, is slow and lacks performance. Windows offers gui access through RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), which is quite fast and comfortable, but even after extensive search and fixing attempts I have not managed to create a bridged...
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