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“Using a remote desktop program from Google”: that sounds unsafe. But why should I trust for example TeamViewer more. At least Google Remote Desktop is much more streamlined; I don’t need those “Team” functionalities. Both TeamViewer and Google Remote Desktop use UDP hole punching in order to traverse your NAT in the “wrong” direction. That’s actually proving the statement that a NAT router (such as the one that connects your home network to the internet) is not a firewall. Therefor my remote machine sleeps, and I have to wake her by logging in with ssh (using certificates of course) which triggers the bonjour sleep-proxy on myRead More →

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OSX makes me happy. A professional desktop with Unix under the hood. Too bad Linux never made it to that level and is still stuck on X11. Unfortunately, our current IT world requires you to be able to run Windows applications. Be it your Tax program, or your favorite Amateur Radio logbook. You can use Wine, and many applications run under Wine. But what does that mean, run under Wine? Does everything work? That requires you to test every functionality of an application. I thought that when the main stuff works, the rest also works. Wrong. My favorite logbook program works 99% under Wine, onlyRead More →

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Cloud storage is hot. Large numbers of GB’s for free, many providers, many security breaches. Ever tried running a powerful server 24×7 on a high speed internet connection for free? Not possible. So the new and independent providers will either disappear or ask more money. What about Google, Microsoft and Dropbox? With Google it’s the same storage as used for Gmail, with the same conditions: “you’re the product”. The Google business model is clear and I’m okay with that. For Gmail there aren’t many alternatives, but for cloud storage there are. Microsoft’s OneDrive gives you currently 15GB for free. That’s a lot. Since Microsoft wasRead More →

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Many blogs are like parrots. Copied content and lots of advertisement. Fair enough, that’s the Internet in 2015. However, this gets annoying when some alledged smart solution is presented and copied all over the place, effectively hiding the way the product owner meant it. For example, doing a clean upgrade of OS X. Googling around might lead you to believe that you need an USB stick for this, make it bootable, copy the right files into it etc. etc. Do you seriously think that this is what Apple had in mind? A clean OS X upgrade via Recovery Partition or Internet Recovery is not possible.Read More →