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Goodbye OSX – part #3: migrating from 1password to Keepass / KeepassX

UPDATE 03/Jan/2016: 1Password 4.x for Windows is working nicely in WINE. The mac serial works for windows, too. – Perfect! Unfortunately, Agilebits (the creator of 1Password) are not offering a linux version of their password storage tool: 1password a couple of years ago, we have switched from KeePassX (OSX) to 1Password because of the better […]

Thunderbird / Icedove / Enigmail: Permanent PGP Emails entschlüsseln (und somit durchsuchbar machen)

Problem 1: Mails die PGP verschlüsselt via POP3 empfangen wurden, sind lokal nicht durchsuchbar. – Das ist suboptimal. Lösungsansatz: permanent lokal entschlüsseln. Mir persönlich reicht das, da ich mit PGP nur den Mailtransfer absichern möchte. Da ich nicht alle meine Emails auf meinem Server liegen haben möchte, nutze ich POP3 statt IMAP. Lokal auf meinem […]

Goodbye OSX – part #1 … Why are we leaving?

After having some great years with OSX since 2007 and iOS soon after that, it becomes time to say good bye. Why? – We’re experiencing more and more problems. In 2014, we got really mad about Apple’s ridiculous AppStore policies, claiming that our e-learning app was useless (as opposed to Flappybird!), just because it loaded […]

ATTENTION: Android Backup (adb) not working properly on Googles own Nexus5 phone: better look for something else!

I’ve had two full backups of my nexus 5. i did a small script, which looks like this: #!/bin/bash fname=nexus5_backupdata_$(date +”%Y-%m-%d_%H%M”).ab echo “Creating backup file $fname …” ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb backup -apk -shared -all -f ~/$fname to restore, i did: #!/bin/bash ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb restore ~/nexus5_backupdata_2015-08-11_1614.ab so, what happened? most of my apps are restored, a few are missing, […]

Improving SPAM Rating (adding SPF records)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix/SPF and http://www.conhost.net/faq_artikel-18.htm http://www.labnol.org/internet/authenticate-google-apps-email-with-spf/13877/ Example syntax for the SPF record: b-nm.at v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ip4:78.46.156.164 ip6:2a01:4f8:190:6423::2 ~all Hinweis -all vs. ~all: https://support.google.com/a/answer/178723?hl=en Tool for checking the SFP entries / syntax: http://kitterman.com/spf/validate.html Google check tool: https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/checkmx/

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