2016 seems to be the year of hardware upgrades for me. After replacing my ESXi host with a VSAN cluster recently, I also had to replace the D.I.Y. router after upgrading my internet connection. At maximum data throughput, CPU load and temperatur are increasing so heavily that other network traffic is slowing down …

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Thanks to the lcd4linux project, Linux also offers the possibility to control LC display - e.g. to display status information. Some years ago, a very cheap digital picture frame was sold on mail-order houses like Pearl. Using an alternative firmware, this device is also capable of being controlled by lcd4linux. Since …

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Since 2008 I have been using the free Linux distribution IPCop to implement a customized firewall/a router. Of course, DSL providers also equip their customers with routers, but back then I was missing a couple of functions. To name some of them: IPSec / OpenVPN NTP time server DMZ segmentation WLAN access point with …

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OpenVPN Connect is a good OpenVPN client for iOS devices with version 5.0 or higher. Using this app VPN tunnels can be managed and used comfortably. Unfortunately the respective OpenVPN configuration files can't be edited directly on the iPhone, iPod or iPad like in the Android application. The first setup might be …

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