tinc Connecting your Synology NAS to your network using tinc and Docker A step-by-step guide to connecting your Synology NAS to your tinc mesh-VPN using Docker.
Plex Migrating Plex from Mac to your Synology NAS Ever wanted to migrate your Plex Media Server from your Mac to your Synology? Simply follow this step-by-step how-to!
SPG Wake Up Call - W Hotels launch their own Festival W Hotels are taking on the festival industry by giving festivals a 5-star make-over. No more camping, glamping or wellies needed.
Flight Review Flight Review: American Airlines 777-200ER Premium Economy An in-depth flight review of American Airline's Premium Economy product aboard their 777-200ER from Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) to Dallas Fort-Worth (DFW).
SPG Marriott & SPG merger details leaked ahead of announcement With the Marriott & SPG loyalty program merger announcement just days away, some initial details seem to have leaked.
SPG SPG More Nights, More Starpoints from April 16 - July 20 Register for SPG's new promotion, More Nights, More Starpoints by June 30th to get 250 bonus Starpoints for each night starting from your third night!
tinc How to set up Tinc mesh VPN on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I've been using tinc for a while now across my Tomato routers. Unlike other VPNs, it's probably one that I use on a daily basis. It allows me to access my LAN from
nginx HTTP/2 and SSL on nginx HTTP is probably one of the most well known protocols out there. But did you know that a few years ago, it got it's first major revision since it's inception - HTTP/2.
HTTPS Get a Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificate A quick tutorial on how to get a LetsEncrypt wildcard certificate with your OVH domain by authenticating using DNS.
Networking Tinc Mesh VPN on Tomato I recently visited my parents and realised that it would be great to continue to easily access my network at home. Sadly, as a Virgin Media customer, the upload speed is poor, so
Android Benefits of using a custom ROM on your Android device If you browse back through my blog, you’ll see that I’ve been a long time fan of Nokia phones. However, after Nokia switching to Windows Phone, and killing a, in my
Linux Using Proxmox Cluster in VRack 1.5 Having spent the last 24 hours trying to get Proxmox to play nice with the new VRack 1.5, it looks like it works perfectly, including online live migration of venet based OpenVZ
nginx Setting expires headers with Plesk 11.5 and nginx I’ve been spending this morning optimizing the Flosoft.biz website in terms of load times in Browsers, and one key element of that is sending the correct expires headers to allow Browsers
Linux Enabling GZip compression on Plesk 11.5’s nginx One of the legacy systems we still use at Flosoft.biz is Plesk. Over the last few years it has slowly gotten better (don’t worry, it still completely breaks on every version
VoIP Switching your phone service from Belgacom to OVH I never thought I would write this post. I am truly amazed. A few weeks ago, we decided to port our main phone line after 35 years from Belgacom to OVH VoIP service.
Linux Adding Flashcache to Proxmox and LVM One of the main bottlenecks when running high performance virtualization systems is the harddisk. Now, you could of course switch your entire system over to SSDs, but that is costly and you’ll
Travel Europe under snow and ice It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post here … I blame Twitter … but this story won’t fit the 140 character limit. The plan I was in Stuttgart for a
Mobile Shiny Thing make it all better – Nokia N900 Finally! I’ve got my own N900. To be honest, it was just a matter of time, until I would get one. After having had one for 4 days, and then having it
FOSDEM XMPP Summit 8 and FOSDEM’10 It looks like I’ve finally got 30 minutes to write this post. So here goes. Just about a week ago, the XSF held yet another successful XMPP Summit in Brussels in conjunction
XMPP Facebook does XMPP! The XMPP userbase just took a big leap forward! Today 400 million users got their XMPP accounts! Facebook enabled their XMPP support today. And unlike AIM, I think it’s here to stay!
Jabber Facebook XMPP Server Evening. After having had a very productive Sunday, I seem not to be able to stop doing stuff :) So I started playing with chat.facebook.com (Facebook’s XMPP Server). Having read P1’
Spotify More than 1 year of Spotify goodness In 1944, Russ Morgan, Larry Stock, and James Cavanaugh wrote the song, “You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You”. That’s the start of the E-mail I got on the 11th of September
Broadband UK Broadband service So, I’ve been in the UK for nearly a year now, and I thought I would share my thoughts on UK broadband. Why now? Well, I was listening to Spotify, and heard
Jabber FOSDEM’09 Speaker It’s official! I am a speaker at the ninth FOSDEM, where I'll be holding a talk on Large Scale XMPP deployments.
