Backing-up your most valuable Data
In this previous post you found instructions, how to setup a USB-stick to contain an additional hidden encrypted partition to store valuable data on. Here you learn how to use your secured USB-stick...
View ArticleConfusing Comparable- & Comparator-Contract
Read here more about the Confusing Comparable- & Comparator-Contract in Java today. I recently came accross the following exception, thrown by the Java Runtime Environment: “Comparison method...
View ArticleWLAN dead after Microsoft Windows System Updates
This post is for the minority of users, whose netbook’s WLAN facility has been killed by an automatic Microsoft* update and who still have a chance accessing the internet – i.e. by using a Linux-based...
View ArticleHow to change ssh port on CentOS 7
Recently one of our server has welcomed us with ugly messages like: Last failed login: Fri Aug 22 19:31:42 CEST 2014 from xx.xxx.xxx.xx on ssh:notty There were 17307 failed login attempts since the...
View ArticleHow to install Apache Karaf 3.0.1 as a daemon
In this tutorial I show you how you can install Apache Karaf 3.0.1 as a daemon (service) on your linux system. Download and install Apache Karaf 3.0.1 First go to the location where you want to install...
View ArticleWe at dropbit are fond of docker
Build, Ship and Run Any App, Anywhere. We don’t have to worry about where our applications are running. If we neeed to do a server update, we don’t have to fear anymore. We can move away the...
View ArticleHow to Clone & Reuse VirtualBox Disk-Images under Linux
When working with Oracle VirtualBox you might have come accross situations, where you wanted to copy the state of a given Disk-Image and build a new Virtual Machine upon that. We tell you, hot to do...
View ArticleHow to install and use docker with btrfs on CentOS 7
In this tutorial I want to show how you can install docker on CentOS 7 and using a BTRFS partition as underlying store. Install docker $ yum update Geladene Plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading...
View ArticlePrivate docker registry with Nginx on CentOS 7
Unfortunately the docker registry does not care about authentication. You could use the docker hub to push your own images to the public docker registry but this is not a very good idea for non open...
View ArticleSet up a git repository and access with https
In this blog post I show you how you can set up a git repository and access with https on a CentOS 7 System. The most tutorials I could find used the ssh protocol to access the repository. Not exactly…...
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