Using Amazon Glacier on Linux

Amazon Glacier Amazon provides a low cost backup service called Amazon Glacier which a payment plan reflecting the amount of data that you store with a price in the range of $ 0.01 per GB. However beware of the other costs for requests and especially the fee related to requesting …

Enabling Apple AirPlay across subnets/networks

The Bonjour service that Apple AirPlay uses to discover devices is limited to only work on a single network (subnet). However, in a home network with  multiple subnets and or routers AirPlay wont work out of the box. Here is an example of such a network: router 1 (192.168.1.0) – …

One-way Synchronization with sFTP

Here is a solution that allows synchronization (mirroring) of a sFTP folder with a local folder. The solution provided here uses the free WinSCP program. An alternative to this approach could be the paid software GoodSync which is fairly easy to use. Tasks Download and install WinScp and add it …

ExifTool to read or modify EXIF data

This ExifTool is a nice command line based tool that allows read and write of properties from Exif an others. It can easily be used in the shell to e.g. collect information about images or just to list all properties. ExifTool by Phil Harvey The tool can be used with …

Cloning NTFS disk with errors

I have a Windows 7 disk with the NTFS file system on multiple partitions that I want to clone since the disk seems to be dying (it has problems spinning the disk plates, or at least that’s how it sounds). My first approach was to use a bootable cd with Acronis TrueImage which …

SourceForge Git auto-login in Windows 7

TortoiseGit auto log-in at SourceForge can be achieved through key authentication through Putty. The first step is to create a key set go to the putty section from the link below  https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/SSH%20keys Now associate the public SSH key with your SourceForge account https://sourceforge.net/account/ssh Finally you need to configure Putty to know about …