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Apple iPhone ring tones Linux style
Apple has crippled the iPhone to not allow normal music files as ringtones. Business decision. Technically any sub 40 second MP4 audio file will do once you rename it to *.m4r and drag-and-drop it to...
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iTunes starts but does not show the main application window
Every once in a while iTunes on Windows decides to start but does not show the main application window when trying to sync an iPhone (or any other iDevice). May be it pops up after half an hour, may be...
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Apple Timemachine backups on Debian 8 (Jessie)
Upgrading Debian 7 (Wheezy) servers to Debian 8 (Jessie) proves (unexpectedly) quite rough around the edges.That's what you get for using a version x.0, we should have known better .And - of course -...
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Netatalk 3.1.8 .debs for Debian Jessie available (Apple Timemachine backup to...
The Debian Netatalk3 saga continues at bug #685878. In season 4 of the epic the main issue still seems to be unclear license indications of a (very) few source files. And the usual "you go fix it",...
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Netatalk 3.1.9 .debs for Debian Jessie available (Apple Timemachine backup to...
Netatalk 3.1.9 has been released with two interesting fixes / amendments:FIX: afpd: fix "admin group" optionNEW: afpd: new options "force user" and "force group"Here are the full release notes for...
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Apple Time Machine backups on Debian 9 (Stretch)
Netatalk 3.1.12 has been released which fixes an 18 year old RCE bug. The Medium write up on CVE-2018-1160 by Jacob Baines is quite an entertaining read.The full release notes for 3.1.12 are...
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