today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 28, 2023

• Building a Personal VoIP System

  I’ve always been a big self-hoster, but had never attempted anything related to VoIP. I recently purchased some IP phones and set up a personal home phone network using Asterisk. This guide will help you set up your own digital telephone system using open-source tools.

  This guide is written for those who are experienced with self-hosting, but are totally unfamiliar with VoIP. Therefore, I’m going to gloss over certain uninteresting technicalities for the sake of brevity.

• How to Use KeePassXC to Secure Your Passwords

  KeePassXC belongs to the KeePass family of powerful free and open source password managers. The original KeePass is available for Windows, but KeePassXC works seamlessly across all operating systems. Each version has some security measures that many password managers lack.

• 6 Best Virtual Machine Programs for Windows, macOS, and Linux

  You can use virtual machines to run different operating systems within Windows, macOS, or Linux. There’s no need to reboot to switch OS, and some solutions even support 3D acceleration, which makes it possible to play games too. Here are some of our favorites.

• Setting up permissions under /files take-2

  Yesterday I posted about folder permission and ownership problems for kdenlive:

  https://bkhome.org/news/202305/fixed-kdenlive-project-setup.html

  In a nutshell, Kdenlive runs as user "kdenlive", but if the administrator creates folders in the Kdenlive project path /files/apps/kdenlive, they will be owner:group root:root and permissions 755, which means that Kdenlive will not be able to write into that folder.