Articles

Private Chat  

With clients for all popular distributions, the decentralized messaging app Jami promises maximum anonymity for chats, voice calls, and videoconferencing.

A Curse and a Blessing  

With the need for home offices during the pandemic lockdown, provisional solutions instituted on the fly during the transition from office to home require more permanent solutions, especially for securing TLS connections on the Internet.

Critical Tool  

The crictl troubleshooting tool and runc container runtime pair up to help identify and diagnose issues with Kubernetes Pods and clusters.

Mail Manager  

Exchange Web Services (EWS) is an important interface that lets applications access Exchange content. You can access the EWS mailbox via PowerShell or create your own tools.

Synchronicity  

If you use your Google account to synchronize appointments between your smartphone and your desktop computer, you can do this just as easily with an open source solution.

Self-Regulating  

Chef InSpec is a practical tool for automated compliance monitoring with an intuitive, declarative scripting language.

Key to Success  

If you want to build scalable clouds, you need the right hardware, but which servers are the right choice as controllers, storage, and compute nodes?

Micro Cures  

In contrast to legacy systems, container-only distributions make do with an absolute minimum of software, which radically simplifies maintenance.

Clean Start  

A Perl script strips HTML markup, creating text files, and makes each file an entry in a database.

Block by Block  

Not every backup tool is useful for backing up entire data media. Rescuezilla makes perfect bit-level copies of mass media in a matter of minutes, so you can completely reconstruct the system if disaster strikes.