AWS EC2 – Server weg, und dann?

AWS EC2 – Server weg, und dann?

…im Nachhinein kann ich es wirklich nicht mehr sagen, geschweige denn nachvollziehen, aber: von heute auf morgen war mein webserver, der das Blog hier betreibt, nicht mehr in der AWS mgmt. Console zu finden. Nicht nur das: der war grundsätzlich einfach GAR nicht mehr da. Sogar die Elastic-IP war auf einmal wieder released, so dass klar war: das Ding…

Windows 10 – continued

Windows 10 – continued

So, heute also die 3. Woche Windows 10 (und ohne OSX) und es gibt doch ein paar Dinge, die ich festhalten will: es gibt bisher nur ein vernünftiges Email-Programm für Windows 10 – zumindest was ich gefunden habe: Outlook – mist, weil kann nicht vernünftig mit Gmail Windows mail – chic, aber neue Nachrichten lassen sich noch…

Open Xchange, Strato and the joy of mailfilters.

Open Xchange, Strato and the joy of mailfilters.

At my-vpa we are running an integrated groupware environment to ensure a consistant, stable and secure workdesk based on Open-Xchange for our employees. Additionally we use strato as our primary mail-service in the open wild and have the OX connected to it. So far so good. The only problem is, strato doesn’t support the sieve protocol…

We do a relaunch tomorrow and I had some headaches with wordpress being slow on EC2

We do a relaunch tomorrow and I had some headaches with wordpress being slow on EC2

With our company mein-virtuellerassistent.com we were using a website we have built 6 years ago. Being the german market leader in the virtual private assistant soace, tomorrow is the german relaunch and rebranding to my-vpa.com. Besides many technical improvements under the hood (we`ve built a super sophisticated task management tool – I haven´t heard of something else…

Und auf einmal drückst Du die „Windows Taste“

Und auf einmal drückst Du die „Windows Taste“

Letzte Woche gab mein „Late 2011“ MacBook auf einmal seinen Geist auf: nach ca. 29565 Betriebsstunden hatte sich die Batterie des Mainboards wohl verabschiedet. Da ich aber gerade mal schnell weiter arbeiten musste, nahm ich mir das nächst-freie-im-Büro-liegende Notebook (irgendwas aus Plastik von Dell) und startete es in der Hoffnung, nicht direkt von einer Ubuntu…

What is the filter economy?

What is the filter economy?

Recently I noticed more and more companies rising, which don’t own an asset, which don’t manufacture a product or don’t create their own content. Instead they provide filters for existing stuff. Examples are: Airbnb (don’t own houses, but let you find the best one for your needs) Uber (don’t own cars, but get you a…

Monitoring and restarting Open-Xchange

Monitoring and restarting Open-Xchange

I started using monit for monitoring and automatically restaring process on some linux servers. That is working quite well and you can find an easy setup guide here. This is my setup in the /etc/monit/monitrc config file, to monitor and restart an open xchange server.   check system localhost     if loadavg (1min) >…

Skinning Open Xchange

Skinning Open Xchange

So, when you are up to have your own Open Xchange site you might want to do some basic skinning. This includes The colour TopBar The Logo This is being done in 4 simple steps: Define the Topbar colour in the default themes .less* file: /opt/open-xchange/appsuite/apps/themes/defintions.less @topbar-background: #your colour Define the Logo in /opt/open-xchange/appsuite/apps/themes/components/topbar.less background-image: url(‚/appsuite/apps/themes/default/my-small-logo.png‘); Place…

Textexpander: a handy tool for textcompletion

Textexpander: a handy tool for textcompletion

Textexpander comes as a handy osx tool: it let’s you create textsnippets being called by a hotkey, you can call and paste into any textfield… this is especially handy for textsnippets you need regulary (say standard email etc.). What is neat is that you can define variables which then can be filled in via a…

PEAR PHP in local MAMP dev environment

  Depending on your php and MAMP version  you’ll find your pear installer somewhere like here: /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.2/bin cd into that directory and install your pear packages like this: sudo ./pear install Net_SMTP You can find a db of all available pear packages here: https://pear.php.net/packages.php

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