cubeSQL for Synology Diskstations

Similar to Roon Server for Network storage devices, I had another software, that I wanted to be available on my Synology Diskstation. It is cubeSQL and is used by my accounting software called “Monkey Office”. The cubeSQL installer uses bash installation scripts and downloads the binary cubesql files during installation from the sqlabs website. You…

Establishing Email Security

Due to a change of email provider from HostEurope to Google’s G Suite, a more tightened email security could be set up. While a SPF DNS entry existed before, DKIM and DMARC could be established now as well. Even though the DMARC policy was set to “none” in the beginning, I intensely monitored the DMARC…

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Setting up Big Blue Button

Setting up Big Blue Button Due to SARS-CoV2, Tüftelakademie asked me to set up  Big Blue Button as an open source conferencing tool. To meet Big Blue Button’s requirements, I suggested to use a virtual private server at Hetzner, which worked flawlessly. Certificates were issues by LetsEncrypt and renew itself automatically.   In addition to…

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Downgrade Premiere Pro projects

If you meed to hand over your premiere project file to another person with an older version of Premiere, the application will not open the project, unless you update your Premiere application. This happened to me, with colleagues in a company, who could not update their application, as the computer were administered by the IT…

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Involvement at Volumio

A while ago a started to get involved at volumio, a free open source music player. At the beginning, I contributed german translations for the software. Later I helped out refining the user interface by giving the UI elements a refreshed look. Volumio’s UI is more round and offers more transparency since then. (read volumio…