Use Zentyal Zarafa Z-Push with an N900

Today I had the problem that my Nokia N900 Mail for Exchange could not sync with my Zentyal server via Active Sync. After some research I found a solution in the Zarafa forum.

It consists of activating LOOSE_PROVISIONING in your z-push config.php. If you are using Zentyal 2.0 this is located at /usr/share/z-push/config.php and [...]

Python for Scientific Calculations

I recently do a lot of mathematical computation, using MATLAB, unfortunately MATLAB is not open-source and fairly expensive to buy. There is a open-source reimplementation of the MATLAB language called GNU Octave. But I never really liked it, mostly because of the missing visualization features compared to MATLAB.

So I started to look for [...]

Sources for VMware images

In the past I used several different sources to get VMware images, so here is a list of my sources with a short description on what's the advantages of each source.

http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/ The ThoughtPolice in most cases seems to be the best source if you need a base image for a server based on [...]

Freebsd jails are cool

After the last OpenExpo in Winterthur, Switzerland I decided to take a deeper look at FreeBSD. What impressed me most was the jail mecanism that makes it very easy to setup isolated environments on a single machine.

I currently mostly use Linux (Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS) on my servers, but I always thought FreeBSD [...]