If you have a FreeNAS server at home, you might want to switch it on and off according to the other computers in the network. With two scripts and a Raspberry Pi both automatic Wake-on-LAN and automatic shutdown is possible for ...
Continue readingAmazon Fire TV: from 49,- Euro for prime customers
After Apple has been selling the AppleTV for several years and Google also offers an extension for the TV with the Chromecast stick, Amazon is now following suit: the Fire TV box is supposed to make the Prime Instant Video offer easily available. Amazon FireTV ...
Continue readingFreeNAS: Shopping List for HP Microserver G8
For a long time, HP's HP N36L, N40L and N54L micro servers were the means of choice if you wanted to put together a FreeNAS server. Here is now a shopping list based on the successor. The Hewlett Packard MICROSERVER Gen8 offers significantly ...
Continue readingFreeNAS: Backup to Crashplan
Those who use a FreeNAS system may have already thought about how to back up the entire system. Crashplan as a plugin for Freenas offers a solution here. Unfortunately, this is not as easy to configure as other ...
Continue readingCompile Nginx yourself
If you use Debian and rely on Nginx, sooner or later you won't be able to get by with the integrated modules. The solution: compile Nginx yourself. Last updated on Jun 09, 2019 What sounds complicated at first is in practice ...
Continue readingNetflix: German launch confirmed in autumn
For a long time, people had to resort to a wide variety of means to access Netflix in Germany. This will end in the fall: the German launch of the popular streaming provider is confirmed. No more VPNs and proxies: Netflix is officially coming ...
Continue readingRaspberry Pi Model B+: more USB ports
The popular Raspberry Pi has been released in version B+: besides a better power supply, the most important innovation is the number of USB ports. Instead of two USB 2.0 ports as before, there are now four of them - handy when ...
Continue readingBeyond the horizon: Fleet management
Normally, this blog is about gadgets for end customers - but apart from iPhone and Android, there is still a world for business customers, for example in the area of fleet management. This refers to systems with which ...
Continue readingSony Xperia Z1 Compact gets Android 4.4.4
Sony releases Android 4.4.4 for the Z1 Compact - Sony is quite exemplary in terms of updates and delivers the latest Android version for the small high-end smartphone before the corresponding update for the flagship Z2. Currently ...
Continue readingiOS 8 brings LTE to the iPhone at E-Plus & Simyo!
As reported by teltarif.de, the LTE network of E-Plus can be used with the iPhone 5S, iPhone 5 and iPhone 5C with the second iOS 8 beta. This was previously not possible due to a missing profile. E-Plus uses a ...
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