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About Sindastra

Sindastra is a software developer with over ten years of experience, specialized in backend web development. In her spare time she hacks on things and educates herself on a variety of topics. She likes to play Minecraft with friends and especially enjoys hacking on the game's server code.

GitHub unlimited private repos?!

Oh, wow! I missed it! Things change... Since the beginning of 2019, GitHub is offering unlimited private repos.Somehow I had missed it! I love GitHub, I use it since 2011 and I prefer it over other Git hosting sites but I never used it for private repos, as I didn't [...]

By |2019-10-13T19:36:30+02:00October 13th, 2019|Sharing|0 Comments

Virtualization on Windows

Now that we covered virtualization on Mac, let's go over to Windows! Microsoft Hyper-V If you have Windows 10 Pro or better (includes Education and Enterprise), then you already have a native virtualization option on board! To enable it, simply open a PowerShell as administrator and type in following command: [...]

By |2019-10-12T10:23:54+02:00October 12th, 2019|Review, Tech Support, Wiki|1 Comment

Virtualization on Mac

Just a quick one to share some options on virtualization on Mac. VMware Fusion Pro Although paid software, this is what I recommend going for, especially if you want to virtualize an ancient OS. Unlike some alternatives VMware provides drivers even for some ancient guest OS, so you can run [...]

By |2019-10-11T23:36:14+02:00October 11th, 2019|Tech Support, Wiki|0 Comments

Looking for old OS installer images?

So you want to look into old CP/M, DOS, Windows 3.x or Mac OS 8?You are at the right place! I found a great archive, that I wanted to share with you! The WinWorld archive contains old OS images of installer discs and floppies. Ranging from old OS/2, CP/M and [...]

By |2019-10-11T22:35:52+02:00October 11th, 2019|Retro, Sharing|0 Comments

Linux full-disk-encryption

Just wanted to share a one-liner on how to encrypt a device,partition or volume with cryptsetup (dm-crypt/luks)and options to get you started! The idea is simple: You create a crypto container on a disk/partition/volume/file/whatever, you then unlock that container, and then mount that container to a folder. When you're done [...]

By |2023-08-26T20:47:31+02:00October 9th, 2019|Tech Support, Wiki|3 Comments

OpenVPN clients: A list

Here's a list of OpenVPN clients I recommend for various platforms. Windows Use the official open source community client. https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ Mac Use the open source Tunnelblick client which is both OpenVPN and GUI in one app. https://tunnelblick.net/ Linux Use your distribution package or compile OpenVPN from source. https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPNhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Openvpnhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN Android I [...]

By |2020-03-22T18:37:28+01:00October 6th, 2019|RoadWarrior, Tech Support, Wiki|0 Comments

NetBeans Launcher Mac

NetBeans has no proper launcher "app" for Mac, which is why I made one! Just a quick post to share the launcher for NetBeans I made. You can find it here. Why a launcher? Because Apache's NetBeans has no proper launcher for Mac. You can find an .exe for Windows, [...]

By |2019-09-26T19:49:53+02:00September 26th, 2019|News, Sharing|0 Comments
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