In my last post I compared several online backup services and decided that Crashplan was my personal winner when looking at the features and the price. In the following weeks a couple of people started to complain about the slow transfer rates to their backup servers. I also tested the upload speeds from several networks [...]
Backups, the everlasting topic. Years after several hard drive crashes, after manual backups and semi automatic backups I’m still thinking about the right solution. Current Setup Currently I’m using an USB / SATA adaptor to connect various hard drives without enclosure to my computer to run Time Machine semi automatic backups. With OS X 10.7 [...]
For years I’ve been searching for a keyboard shortcut that would instantly lock my screen / desktop. I’ve seen this on Linux window managers and something like this probably exists on every major operating system. My current workaround was to open Keychain.app, enable the menu bar icon in the preferences and click each time on [...]
DNS is one of the key ingredients of the internet and the world wide web. Without it you would have to type long numbers into the browsers address bar instead of convenient domain names like example.org. Humans seem to remember words better than numbers. In that sense, DNS is like the internets “phonebook”. To look [...]
Currently I’m digging myself into the world of administrating servers. I started with webservers but by now I’m administrating multiple servers that run services like DNS, HTTP, Mail, SVN, MySQL, PostgreSQL and a couple more. My last thing was DNS. I’ve read through the reference book from O’Reilly: DNS & Bind and set up two [...]