Plex Transcoding with low cost slow CPU

I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS on this low power SoC board Asrock N3150DC-ITX with N3150 CPU: http://ark.intel.com/products/87258/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N3150-2M-Cache-up-to-2_08-GHz According to https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201774043-What-kind-of-CPU-do-I-need-for-my-Server- (see The Guideline) I quote: Very roughly speaking, for a single full-transcode of a video, the following PassMark scores are […]

Transmission on Ubuntu

Important files /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon -> SysV service /etc/default/transmission-daemon -> run by /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon /********/.config/transmission-daemon -> CONFIG_DIR in /etc/default/transmission-daemon /********/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json User and Group running transmission-daemon change to desired ones (e.g. USER=************) in /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon

Yahoo certificate error

ERROR (ubuntu + chromium) https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Errors/NET-ERR-CERTIFICATE-TRANSPARENCY-REQUIRED-on-chromium-53/m-p/141922/highlight/true#M36857 ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED You cannot visit mail.yahoo.com right now because the website uses HSTS. SOLUTION (no logic here but working at 16 Nov 2016) https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-fix-the-privacy-error-in-Chrome-Your-connection-is-not-private On the page displaying this error, click anywhere on the page where […]