March 2021

Shell-Scripts have become a daily companion of mine over the last ten years. However, I used to develop those scripts just with a simple text editor and then tested the execution simply from the terminal. Having come to enjoy the perks of an IDE (during my excessive work with RStudio), the process of shell scripting […]

Synology NAS has native support for HFS file systems (Apple’s previous standard file system). So, it is possible to connect a HFS-formatted external USB drive to a Synology NAS and directly copy the files to the NAS. However, there is one big issue: Mac OS applies another character encoding (utf-8-mac or utf8-D) to file (and