Sindastra

About Sindastra

Sindastra is a software developer with over ten years of experience, specialized in backend web development. In her spare time she hacks on things and educates herself on a variety of topics. She likes to play Minecraft with friends and especially enjoys hacking on the game's server code.

Virtualization on Windows

Now that we covered virtualization on Mac, let's go over to Windows! Microsoft Hyper-V If you have Windows 10 Pro or better (includes Education and Enterprise), then you already have a native virtualization option on board! To enable it, simply open a PowerShell as administrator and type in following command: [...]

By |2019-10-12T10:23:54+02:00October 12th, 2019|Review, Tech Support, Wiki|1 Comment

Virtualization on Mac

Just a quick one to share some options on virtualization on Mac. VMware Fusion Pro Although paid software, this is what I recommend going for, especially if you want to virtualize an ancient OS. Unlike some alternatives VMware provides drivers even for some ancient guest OS, so you can run [...]

By |2019-10-11T23:36:14+02:00October 11th, 2019|Tech Support, Wiki|0 Comments

Looking for old OS installer images?

So you want to look into old CP/M, DOS, Windows 3.x or Mac OS 8?You are at the right place! I found a great archive, that I wanted to share with you! The WinWorld archive contains old OS images of installer discs and floppies. Ranging from old OS/2, CP/M and [...]

By |2019-10-11T22:35:52+02:00October 11th, 2019|Retro, Sharing|0 Comments

Linux full-disk-encryption

Just wanted to share a one-liner on how to encrypt a device,partition or volume with cryptsetup (dm-crypt/luks)and options to get you started! The idea is simple: You create a crypto container on a disk/partition/volume/file/whatever, you then unlock that container, and then mount that container to a folder. When you're done [...]

By |2023-08-26T20:47:31+02:00October 9th, 2019|Tech Support, Wiki|3 Comments

OpenVPN clients: A list

Here's a list of OpenVPN clients I recommend for various platforms. Windows Use the official open source community client. https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ Mac Use the open source Tunnelblick client which is both OpenVPN and GUI in one app. https://tunnelblick.net/ Linux Use your distribution package or compile OpenVPN from source. https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPNhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Openvpnhttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN Android I [...]

By |2020-03-22T18:37:28+01:00October 6th, 2019|RoadWarrior, Tech Support, Wiki|0 Comments

NetBeans Launcher Mac

NetBeans has no proper launcher "app" for Mac, which is why I made one! Just a quick post to share the launcher for NetBeans I made. You can find it here. Why a launcher? Because Apache's NetBeans has no proper launcher for Mac. You can find an .exe for Windows, [...]

By |2019-09-26T19:49:53+02:00September 26th, 2019|News, Sharing|0 Comments

iPadOS 13 is here!

Just a quick post to let you know iPadOS 13 was finally released and it's straight to 13.1! It can handle mice! Omg! iOS 13.1 is now out too, which fixes bugs from the previously released 13.0. So now is a good time to create a backup in iTunes and [...]

By |2019-09-24T23:38:57+02:00September 24th, 2019|News|0 Comments
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