Sometimes you need an encrypted partition on a computer for storing sensitive data which should not fall into the wrong hands in case of lost. Here it is described how to create and manage such a partition in the Gnome desktop.

Because of the ongoing transition from ipv4 to ipv6 in the internet, ipv4 will be limited in routing capabilities on the ISP-side.

With today DS-Lite stacks given by the ISP, the NAT-routing mechanism has been shifted to the ISP-side and not more than a local ipv4 network without public IP's is offered.

The Docker containers are deployed and accessible from the outside world - nice! But opening pages of certain services in the internet browser reporting "Your connection is not secure". This happens because of missing SSL certificates. A reverse proxy in front of multiple docker services allows a mapping from subdomains to IP/ports in your local network. Furthermore the needed SSL certificates can be automatically requested from the free certifcate authority "Let's Encrypt". All the jobs are managed by "nginx proxy manager" and it could also be deployed to a Docker container.

Both, Vorta and Borgmatic are backup clients and rely on Borgbackup. The setup is split into the three parts "Borg backup server", "Vorta client" and "Borgmatic client".

The goal is to setup the simple remote debugging facility of Eclipse for cross target debugging. The target need to run the gdbserver. With this solution, it is only possible to debug the application on user level.

A new personal computer or server must be setup with a Debian OS and Docker must be installed. The Docker services from an old PC moving to the new one.

Some services like inadyn or ddclient for updating a resolvable name at a DynDNS provider are sometimes hard to configure. The ddns-updater comes in a Docker image and a web interface for monitoring the state. So let's try this out.