The objective of this post is to install keepass2, keefox, keecloud on Kubuntu 16.04.
Self-hosted FOSS cloud step 5.1: Transmission bittorrent client (headless mode) and its web GUI on Debian
A short memo on how to install the Transmission bittorent client and control it from a web GUI, both of them running on a headless server. The aim is to replace the “download station” bundled in the Synology NAS software (DSM), see http://julien.coubronne.net/2017/01/08/a-self-hosted-free-opensource-cloud/
Backing up data from an LVM partition
If you need to access some files on a partition that was formatted with LVM, you can follow this procedure: Continue reading
Debian: find the fastest mirror
Just a quick self-note on how to find the fastest server for Debian. Ok, so most of the information here comes from this useful post. Continue reading
DynDNS with OVH on Debian
I have a dynamic DNS provided by OVH, called “DynHost”. To update my IP address to the service, I used the linux client ddclient.
I followed the following tutorial (in French). I reproduce here the key steps: Continue reading
Store your SSH keys in Keepass and use them with Keeagent
The aim of this note is to easily store your SSH private keys in Keepass, and to use Keeagent to access them when the database is unlocked.
This allows to easily use Putty/Kitty on Windows to connect to your remote SSH server with key auth. Continue reading
Password management… cross platform and in the cloud
The objective of this post is the following: set a system to ensure strong passwords, which is robust and easy to use.
This solution uses the following:
Local music playback on an Xpenology with an USB sound card
Xpenology is an incredible project allowing to turn an old computer into a “Synology” NAS in order to test it. I say “test” because the legality around the project is unclear: while synology publishes its source code (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsgpl/), not everything is considered as “open”, and officials at Synology considers that it goes against their copyright… (see, in French).
I currently test it on an old netbook, and beside the obvious disk space limitation (one small hard drive on it), it works perfectly. Continue reading
OVH, SIP account (VOIP), Cisco SPA112 and CSipSimple
I have a SIP account (SIP is a protocol for voice-over-internet-protocol – VoIP) at OVH (a web hosting provider). I could choose, when creating the line, between various “national” numbers (France, Belgium, etc). I choose a french number (even though I live in Belgium), since nowadays most internet providers in France provide, through their “box”, free and unlimited calls to french landlines, which therefore allows my friends and family to reach me at zero costs.
The line is activated through a Cisco SPA-112 phone adapter, a two port “ATA” (Analog Telephone Adapter) that allows the use of basic analog phones. Currently a simple DECT phone is connected to this adapter.
You can also activate the line through a software (softphone), such as Twinkle for KDE users.
My final setup involve an Android phone, the SIP softphone “CSIPsimple” (downloaded from F-Droid), which allows me to place calls through this account whenever I have a data access. Of course, as soon as you register you line with the softphone, the incoming calls are redirect to it.
Your own “Synology” NAS, with Xpenology, Virtualbox (headless mode) on an old netbook
These notes explain how to install “XPEnology” (a project porting Synology’s NAS software on other platforms) as a virtual machine (with virtualbox), in headless mode (SSH) on a debian server (which happens to be an old netbook – but this part failed because of the proc type of the netbook). Continue reading