“Storm Control”, a Tricky Switch Feature
Setting up my home network in my new home in Berlin, it was time to deploy the managed 16 port switch to accommodate all Ethernet connections. It has proven to be beneficial to connect...
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Monitoring End-to-End IP QoS
Internet is now almost everywhere in the civilized and half-civilized world available. It’s only a question of price and Quality of Service. In my home in Bangkok I suffered from an ever changing quality...
Your Data: In the Clouds or On Earth?
Data Security for Consumers Gone are those days when people kept their memories on photo albums, filling shelves in their homes. Shelves are being gradually also relieved of transparency trays, video cassettes and other...
Wireshark on Ubuntu
A repeating problem after new Linux installations is to get Wireshark running with access to the Ethernet interfaces as non-root user. Here is the recipe (tried successfully on Linux Mint 13, 64 bit): Overview:A...
Free Your Phone Calls With FreeSWITCH!
Since SIP became the commonly used protocol to handle phone calls and other communication and Internet connects almost all households with a reasonable QoS, I ask myself: What is actually the role of the...
FreeSWITCH VoIP PBX on a VPS
To be reachable via SIP using the same private domain I currently use for email, and even the same ID, I decided to set-up my own SIP PBX. Because I have rented a VPS...
Getting Rid of SIP NAT Problems
The Problem SIP Endpoints in a consumer environment are often behind a NATted DSL router. This means they use a private IP address and mechanisms to allow SIP signaling and the voice data’s separate...
RFID and NFC
My wallet is full of plastic cards. Access cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, ID card, health insurance, stored value tickets and more.I like to have things done easily, no filling of forms, not having...
Browsing Privacy
How easy is it for someone to track our movements in the world wide web? Dynamic IP addresses? NAT? Disabling cookies?This all seems to be of not much help! Interestingly our individual PC...
What Motivates Us?
Here is something not technical that I want to share. Actually it is related. What makes open source work? Why dedicate thousands and maybe millions of people their unpaid time to technical projects? How...
Backup and Restore of a Joomla Site
Done a couple of times, but needed rather rarely. Means I have to re-think every time. So here is a simple recipe (Linux assumed): The MySQL DB and all the files in the web...