Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Marius Bogdan Lixandru is a highly experienced content creator from Romania with a background in biology, chemistry and computer programming. He loves writing technical guides that are accessible for non-technical people. Born in 1984, he has always expressed interest in technology. Beyond technology and biology, he has a passion for agriculture, the science and beauty of which have encouraged him to start his own vegetable garden and plant dozens of fruit-bearing trees with fragrant and succulent, sweet and sour fruits. When he’s not losing nights uncovering the deepest hidden secrets of the latest tech devices, he’s likely enjoying a refreshing slice of juicy, honey-sweet watermelon, sluggishly lying on the grass in his orchard, sitting in the shade under the trees he himself has planted. Torpid summer days accompanied by cicada sounds and greeted by his smiling wife and happy, tail-wagging presence of his two mioritic shepherd dogs are some of the simpler pleasures in life that help him recharge his batteries to take on the latest tech challenges. Support My Work and Feel free to contact me.

Synology DSM Update Version: 6.2.4-25556-5

23 February 202222 February 2022 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

A new security update called Update 5 has been released for DSM 6.2.4 and it’s an extremely important update. With this updated firmware Synology is sealing a security hole in their Disk Station Manager (DSM) OS. What could have happened was registered attackers could use the vulnerability to remotely execute commands on devices with the … Read more about Synology DSM Update Version: 6.2.4-25556-5

Synology: How to Enable or Disable DSM Desktop Notifications

10 August 202221 February 2022 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Are you tired of seeing notifications from various Synology packages come up on your DSM desktop? There is a method to disable them, but it’s quite well hidden from view. For example, if you want to delete Active Backup for Business notifications, or Docker notifications, you can do it by following the steps in this … Read more about Synology: How to Enable or Disable DSM Desktop Notifications

Synology: MariaDB 10 Update Version 10.3.32

10 August 202221 February 2022 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

With the release of a new update to DSM 7.1 Beta, Synology has also released an update to the MariaDB package bringing it from version 10.3.29 to version 10.3.32 – MariaDB 10 is a community-developed fork of MySQL and is one of the most widely used open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). It is highly compatible with … Read more about Synology: MariaDB 10 Update Version 10.3.32

Synology: Flame Docker Version 2.0.1

10 August 202220 February 2022 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

What is Flame? Flame is an awesome self-hosted dashboard for your server that also doubles as a start page. It’s very easy to set up and use which is why I like it so much. With built-in editors, Flame allows you to set up your very own application hub in no time; and no file … Read more about Synology: Flame Docker Version 2.0.1

Synology: How to Delete Shared Folder on DSM 7

10 August 202220 February 2022 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Do you want to delete a folder in File Station, but can’t? You’re certainly wondering why that is, aren’t you? People think they can delete a folder in File Station just by clicking directly on Action / Delete. But when you get to this point, you see that you can’t apply any action to the … Read more about Synology: How to Delete Shared Folder on DSM 7

How to Disable Telnet Service on Synology NAS

10 August 202220 February 2022 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Telnet is an old client-server protocol based on a reliable connection-oriented transport. Typically, this protocol is used to establish a connection to the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), port number 22 or 23, where a Telnet server application “telnetd” is listening. Telnet, however, predates TCP/IP and was originally run over Network Control Program (NCP) protocols. You … Read more about How to Disable Telnet Service on Synology NAS