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Open Source Point of Sales (PoS) with Odoo
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Open Source Point of Sales (PoS) with Odoo

For events of our local fire fighter department (Feuerwehr Urdorf) I wanted to have a Point of Sales (PoS) system to serve beer and sausage fast. After a good amount of research I settled with Odoo. This blogpost describes the story behind.

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Tobias Brunner 6 Sep 2019 • 3 min read
Camperferien 2019
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Camperferien 2019

Campingferien 2019 in der Schweiz, Italien und Kroatien

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Tobias Brunner, Gisela Brunner 2 Jun 2019 • 5 min read
Hochzeit 8.9.2018
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Hochzeit 8.9.2018

Am Samstag, 8.9.2018 haben Gisela und ich uns das Ja-Wort gegeben.

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Tobias Brunner 2 Oct 2018 • 1 min read
Kubernetes on OrangePI ARM64
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Kubernetes on OrangePI ARM64

At the beginning, there was this little idea to have a Kubernetes cluster to take with me to conferences and learn more about the inner workings of Kubernetes. And then,

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Tobias Brunner 27 May 2018 • 4 min read
Digitale Gesellschaft - Winterkongress 2018
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Digitale Gesellschaft - Winterkongress 2018

Am 24. Februar 2018 fand der erste Winterkongress des Vereins Digitale Gesellschaft im Zentrum Karl der Grosse mitten im Niederdorf in Zürich statt. Die Themen waren breit gefächert: Von Politik,

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Tobias Brunner 26 Feb 2018 • 3 min read
pylokid - Lodur Hilfsprogramm
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pylokid - Lodur Hilfsprogramm

pylokid, ein Hilfsprogramm zum Umgang mit dem Feuerwehrverwaltungsprogramm Lodur. In meiner Funktion als Fourier in der Feuerwehr Urdorf habe ich unter anderem die Aufgabe, Einsätze im Lodur zu erfassen. Dies

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Tobias Brunner 22 Jan 2018 • 3 min read
Mailhosting with Hosted Mailcow at Servercow
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Mailhosting with Hosted Mailcow at Servercow

The time has come where I stopped self-hosting E-Mail ever since I own tobru.ch (First registration date: 2001-10-26). It was a long journey: From hosting on an embedded PC

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Tobias Brunner 20 Jan 2018 • 2 min read
OpenShift oc cluster up as Systemd Service
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OpenShift oc cluster up as Systemd Service

Running a single node OpenShift cluster is very easy with oc cluster up. It's also very easy to run it as system service with persistent configuration, so that on system

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Tobias Brunner 9 Dec 2017 • 1 min read
West-Australien 2017
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West-Australien 2017

Vom 30. Oktober 2017 bis 30. November 2017 bereisten wir mit dem Camper West-Australien. Mit der Singapore Airline flogen wir von Zürich via Singapur nach Perth. Wie immer empfanden wir

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Tobias Brunner 3 Dec 2017 • 4 min read
Sailfish X - Sony Xperia X
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Sailfish X - Sony Xperia X

This post describes my experience with Sailfish X on a Sony Xperia X Single SIM (F5121). What is Sailfish X? It simply is Sailfish OS adapted to run on the

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Tobias Brunner 3 Dec 2017 • 2 min read
RuuviTag with C.H.I.P - BLE - Node-RED - InfluxDB and Grafana
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RuuviTag with C.H.I.P - BLE - Node-RED - InfluxDB and Grafana

A few weeks ago I received my RuuviTag. It is a small Bluetooth BLE device which contains a few sensors, including temperature, relative air humidity, air pressure and acceleration. The

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Tobias Brunner 17 Oct 2017 • 5 min read
KeyBox on OpenShift
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KeyBox on OpenShift

KeyBox is a web-based SSH console that centrally manages administrative access to systems. I wanted to install KeyBox on OpenShift, so I created a Dockerfile and an OpenShift template for

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Tobias Brunner 28 Sep 2017 • 2 min read
Moving from Jekyll to Ghost
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Moving from Jekyll to Ghost

It's that time again: After moving from TYPO3 to Wordpress to Jekyll over the years I'm now moving my website to Ghost and consolidate tobru.ch and tobrunet.ch into

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Tobias Brunner 27 Sep 2017 • 2 min read
Island
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Island

Vom 10. bis 24. Juli 2016 haben wir eine zweiwöchige Rundfahrt in Island gemacht. Nicht umsonst ist die Insel bei schweizer Touristen so beliebt, handelt es sich doch um eine

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Tobias Brunner 24 Jul 2017 • 6 min read
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Automate Knot Zonefiles with Gitlab CI and Docker

Managing DNS zonefiles just got easier and more robust thanks to Gitlab CI. The presented workflow is based on a Git repository saved in a Gitlab instance and Gitlab CI which runs some scripts in a Docker image. This Docker image contains tools and

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Tobias Brunner 1 May 2016 • 3 min read
Dive into OpenShift v3
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Dive into OpenShift v3

This article has originally been written for SysAdvent 2015 Over the last year there has been a lot of buzz around open-source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) tools. This blog will give you

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Tobias Brunner 1 Jan 2016 • 18 min read
Drupal 8 on OpenShift Origin
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Drupal 8 on OpenShift Origin

Since a few weeks I'm exploring and learning OpenShift Origin. It's a very interesting technology and also makes me happy to learn new technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Last week

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Tobias Brunner 22 Nov 2015 • 1 min read
La Réunion
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La Réunion

Die Insel *La Réunion* liegt im indischen Ozean, östlich von Madagaskar. Mit 2'503 km² Fläche handelt es sich um eine sehr kleine Insel, mit dem Auto ist man in ca. 4h einmal rundherum gefahren. Als französisches Überseedepartement spricht man französisch und bezahlt mit Euro.

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Tobias Brunner 8 Nov 2015 • 4 min read
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OpenLDAP Password Policy overlay (ppolicy)

OpenLDAP has a dynamically loadable module which can enforce password policies. It allows to define policies for the userPassword attribute. Policies can define the maximum login attempts with the wrong password, maximum age of a password and many more. Here is a short introduction

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Tobias Brunner 18 Sep 2015 • 3 min read
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VPN through HTTPS Proxy with SSH

If you are in a situation where you are locked in a network which has all ports closed to the outside, but there is a HTTP(S) proxy available, then you're lucky and can create a VPN easily using some nice tricks. Prerequisites You

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Tobias Brunner 17 Sep 2015 • 3 min read
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GWS - Git Workspace

Have you ever used Git submodules? Then you know the pain they bring... If you just want to keep some Git repos together organized, then GWS - Git Workspace is for you! UPDATE: See How VSHN manages Hiera data files for an example use

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Tobias Brunner 19 Jun 2015 • 1 min read
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SwiNOG #27: You have an out-of-band management network, haven't you?

bing An alert is coming in, but unfortunately your network is unreachable. What now? How would you fix this problem when you can't access your network? You don't want to go to the datacenter, because you're a RelaxOps (tm)! Good that you are prepared

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Tobias Brunner 22 Oct 2014 • 7 min read
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CASino with Kolab LDAP backend

"CASino is an easy to use Single Sign On (SSO) web application written in Ruby" It supports different authentication backends, one of it is LDAP. It works very well with the LDAP backend of Kolab. Just put the following configuration snippet into

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Tobias Brunner 27 Sep 2014 • 1 min read
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Kolab 3 Vagrant box with Puppet provisioning

Kolab has released it's first beta of the upcoming version 3.3. To test it on Debian I've created a Vagrantfile and a small Puppet module which provisions Kolab into a Debian VM. It's available on Github. How to use it Make sure you

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Tobias Brunner 10 Aug 2014 • 1 min read
Rückblick auf Neuseeland und Australien
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Rückblick auf Neuseeland und Australien

Nun sind wir bereits wieder seit einer Woche in der Schweiz. Zeit für einen Rückblick auf die dreimonatige Reise nach Neuseeland und Australien. Zahlen und Fakten Ein paar Zahlen: 1'064'270

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Tobias Brunner 17 Jul 2014 • 4 min read
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