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Alpine Linux on a PC Engines APU2

The single-board computers by PC Engines are really good devices suited for home or office servers, firewall applications, and alike. The three Gigabit Ethernet ports, three MiniPCI Express ports together with an AMD powered x86_64 CPU and low power consumption (about 6-10 W) make them especially attractive. In the following …

SSH over Tor

My server runs SSH on a non-standard port. This has some advantages, e.g. less automated login attempts and thus less log spamming. Of course, this decision can be discussed, and there are good alternatives like using fail2ban, port knocking or even tarpits. However, there are also disadvantages, like having …

35C3 Stickers

The 35th Chaos Communication Congress (in short 35C3 or just Congress) officially lasted from 27th to 30th of December and is over since a while now, and left nothing than the memory of a warm feeling that a few days of utopia went by, again. The Congress is the annual …

Stranger Things BASIC

As an attempt to revive my blog a bit, here is some fun with ancient looking code taken from the series Stranger Things. Although the story takes place in the '80s and is not technical, there is a short scene in episode 8 of the latest season (currently season 2 …

PhoneGap + Leaflet + TileMill

This article explains how to render a tiled map with TileMill from OpenStreetMap data and make it available on iOS (Android also should be possible) for offline usage. This is achieved by using a combination of PhoneGap with several plugins and Leaflet for showing the map.

Why you should upgrade to iOS 7

Today iOS 7 has been released and therefore every media is focused on it, especially social media. And as this update to iOS brings singificant changes, most notably in the GUI and UX (I dont't want to point them out here, there are enough other sites doing it already), there …

Review: The Inner World

And here it is: The first point-and-click adventure game review of "The Inner World".

iOS Jailbreak app recommendations

iOS is a great mobile OS because it (mostly) just works without much hassle: Simple setup, easy configuration and beautiful design. But there will always be something somebody won't like, for example I dislike the current design of the upcoming release…

First blog post!

Finally a fully functional website! It took a very long time until this site got there: The first time I registered the domain mueller-martin.net was propably back in January 2009, mainly for easier access to my very first hosted virtual server. It was meant for experimenting and tinkering with …