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Setting up a NodeJS application on a FreeBSD 10 system was impossible when using ZFS as a file system.

Sometimes it seems that Apples iCloud sync seems to do not exactly the right thing.

If you encounter any problems, please check the up-to-date documentation at https://github.com/dprandzioch/docker-ddns .

The company I’m working at provides eCommerce solutions for many years now.

While building my new NAS, I came across the question how to provide a Time Machine backup solution for my OS X clients.

forked-daapd allows you to set up an iTunes Media server that hosts all music, podcasts and audiobooks and shows up in iTunes like a shared library.

In Part 3 of this series I described how to install FreeBSD and set it up properly.

FreeBSD is the ideal system to use when building a server.

In Part 1 of this series I already explained my goals building a new NAS.

After a long while I finally decided to build a new NAS / home server for my various needs.

I’m changing my hardware quite frequently as I often end up unsatisfied with my current setup.

FreeBSD is shipped with sendmail as the default MTA, which is configured to local delivery on a vanilla installation.

Beside the pre-configured profiles, OS X’s sandbox wrapper command sandbox-exec provides a flexible configuration syntax that allows one to create a customized sandbox that either blacklists or whitelists specific abilities of the application executed wit…

rsync as a very important tool in a system administrators’ toolbox.

Jails in FreeBSD provide a simple yet flexible way to set up a proper server layout.

In my daily work one of my jobs is to assure code quality of our web applications written in PHP.

I have used Caddy for a while now on FreeBSD.

There are some tools that make a developers’ daily work much easier.

It’s more than likely that your email provider of choice, especially the ones that offer mail services free of charge, will not support receiving email to custom domain names like, in my case, davd.net.

When using Git extensively, you’ll likely have multiple branches which need to be cleaned up from time to time.

During the last few months I managed to automate many recurring tasks on my NAS.

Often the question arises why one should prefer FreeBSD over any arbitrary GNU/Linux distribution, that is more widely spread and additionally offers commercial support.

In the following quick start guide I will show you the basic usage of Puppet.

It’s already been while since Apple removed the “Java Preference Pane” from OS X, with which it was possible to change between various installed Java versions.

In this guide I’ll show you how to install the package manager Bower on Mac OS X.

If you’re running a network with a .local domain, you might experience issues running OS X Yosemite (10.10).

In this guide I’ll show you, how to prevent permission changes within a Git repository to be recognized as a file change.

So it’s already been a month ago when I got my new 13-inch MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display.

Yesterday I recognized that the latter USB port doesn’t seems to be broken.

There’s at least one case where I can’t confirm Apples motto “It just works!”.

This one seemed easier then it was in the end ;-) Here’s how it works…