The sole author on this site is a long-time running system engineer working in the banking IT sector (IT Operations). Passionate about Mac, NAS/SAN, virtualization, and Docker environments.
apple
Personally, I'm not the beta type user. I like it when the software or OS is good and baked, then I install it. On August 6th, Apple finally pushed out the public beta of their new upcoming macOS 11, Big Sur. After 4 developer betas, looks like we
synology
UPDATE: 23/09/2020 - DS1621+ on the Tawain version of Synology site - https://www.synology.com/zh-tw/products/DS1621+#specs more details below UPDATE: 10/09/2020 - DS1621xs+ on the global Synology site - https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1621xs+ UPDATE: 08/09/2020 - On synology.com (TW
docker
UPDATE 21/10/2020 - Roll out of 5000 pushes/month limit has been postponed until Noveber 16, 2020. For over two years I have been using Rocket Chat as my collaboration platform of choice. I highly recommend it to almost everybody I know, and personally have multiple instances running. This
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📢UPDATE: LiveChat feature has been disabled but I have opened an anonymous chat platform for instant chat support. Link in the upper right corner of the main menu In its current version, Rocket.Chat has evolved a great deal in the past years. I use RC daily for various needs
starwars
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read any further, keep in mind that this article will contain information from the last season (7) of The Clone Wars tv show. In case you haven't seen it (shame on you!) be sure that you do before reading on. UPDATE: 31/03/2021
docker
UPDATE: After some comparison, I would suggest using PrivateBin over Tornote Considering that nowadays security and privacy is most important it is not strange that there is a larger number of tools that will help you to achieve that. Today I would like to focus on a new (a few
docker
⚠️NOTE: Keep in mind that the webgrabplus image used in this tutorial is v.3.1.0 (at the time of writing the article). Version 4.2.2+ uses the new Net5 (core) vs the old .Net framework 4.8 (used by 3.x.x.). The docker image in question
synology
Just last week, Synology has opened a new C2 data center in Seattle, USA. More info about it here. What might have gone under the radar was the fact that Synology now offers one more service connected to their C2 platform, called Express Box. So what is Express Box? Considering
tech
So what would a geek like me like for a 5y wedding anniversary? Well, I got myself a new dasKeyboad 4 PRO, but that's me. What about a gift from my lovely wife? As it happens to be, she overheard me months ago complaining about my iPhone charging
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UPDATE: 04/12/2020 - added at the bottom - Updates to Synology C2 General Terms & Conditions On July 1st Synology made it possible to use a second location for their growing cloud backup solution, C2. After two years since Synology rolled out C2 service in Frankfurt, Germany, it has now
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It has been a while since I got a new keyboard. Since 2008 to be exact. Since I moved to a Mac platform I have used only their native keyboards and even though I don't play as much as I did before, I have decided to go for
synology
As it was already announced last year, Synology has delivered on their promise to remove a good amount of apps from their Package center. The process was split into two categories. The first one was on Dec 25th, 2019, when category one packages reached end of software maintenance. This means