Janik von Rotz

Install Postfix with mail forwarding

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/janikvonrotz/b6bbaee6433e5d4d2771.

Introduction

Postfix is a commonly used MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) program that can receive, deliver or route emails. In this guide you’ll learn how to forward mails from a certain domain to another e-mail address. It’s a recommanded approach if you want to publish a mail contact based on your domain and redirect the received mails to another provider, such as Outlook or Gmail.

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Destruction

15 bucks, a golf club and a camera. This was the recent photography project of my friends. With a simple setup, we tried to get the perfect shot of a golf club hitting pottery. It was a lot of fun and in the end a big mess. Here are some of the results, every picture contains the original and the destroyed object:

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O3M 49 - See The Future (Indie)

A nice playlist to relax on a rainy sunday.

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Timelapse was yesterday

Constructed from a combined 150,000 photos, 450 hours of work, and 6 terabytes of data, photographer Julian Tryba’s innovative new short, Boston Layer-Lapse, is new approach to the traditional timelapse photography. Checkout the exclusive interview with Julian on the creatorsproject.

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ILIAS Synchronising Tool

My university Hochschule Luzern uses ILIAS as an open source e-learning and content management platform.

The main part of the publishing process for ILIAS looks like this: The lectureres publish their content (presentations, scripts, software, ..) to ILIAS and the students download it afterwards. It is possible to set up a notification for related changes. However the students still have to copy the files to the local computer manually.

To make this a bit easier, I’ve developed a synchronisation tool with PowerShell. It consists of four script files:

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Backup your OneNote files

If you’re using OneDrive to sync your OneNote files, all OneNote data is stored online. There’s no “real” file containing your notes on your computer. However by default OneNote backs up your Notebook. But you might not be shure where that is?

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O3M 48 - Dafuq (Electro)

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You want to learn Java? BlueJ is the answer

So you decided to learn some Java programming, but you don’t know where to start?

Let me help you. The first thing you should do is to visit the website: http://www.bluej.org/

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Animes I love

As I don’t want to forget about the beautiful animes I’ve seen so far I’ve created a list of my favorite ones. Even if you don’t know anything about the anime genre or don’t bother about it, you’ll should at least see one in my list. The art of anime is very underestimated in the western hemisphere, it’s far more work to produce an anime than a ordinary hollywood movie.

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HHVM on Ubuntu 14.4 LTS fix

If you’ll get this nasty error: /usr/bin/hhvm: error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Simply run the following command: sudo apt-get install libgmp10

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