Enabling VPN in a home NAS is a good way – some might say paramount requirement – to preserve your privacy when using certain applications. While the highest flexibility comes from running the NAS directly in a Linux machine, out-of-the-box solutions can win in convenience thanks to built-in applications and mobile App support. One of such solutions is Synology. In this post I will describe how to setup OpenVPN in a Synology NAS while still preserving access from the outside.
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Loading iTunes library from command line
Having separated iTunes libraries for different setups (e.g., media center, local music, remote playlists) is a powerful way to organize your media library and share resources among different devices (e.g., iPhone synchronization), but it can be painful. While it is possible to load a different iTunes library by opening iTunes and pressing “Alt” at the same time, this is not optimal. Ideally, we would write a script to pass iTunes the library it should load at launch time (e.g., open /Applications/iTunes.app –load-library=$LIBRARY_PATH). However, to the best of my knowledge, the iTunes API does not expose this – which I honestly do not understand. Googling for a workaround I could not find a good/complete solution, so I made my own. Here you have the setup and the scripts that implement it.
My Cellar Door 