Compiling google’s mod_pagespeed for nginx

This post is intended mainly to Zyxel NSA310 users. Prerequisites See first https://adrhc.go.ro/blog/common-commands-when-building/ for building environment, x.sh script and other things not defined here. Before starting do declare the environment variables specified to the link above. Environment & other preparations […]

Linux media conversion

sudo apt install libav-tools webm to mp4 http://askubuntu.com/questions/323944/convert-webm-to-other-formats ffmpeg -i “Jurjak – Bucuresti.webm” -qscale 0 “Jurjak – Bucuresti.mp4” ffmpeg -fflags +genpts -i “Jurjak – Bucuresti.webm” -r 24 “Jurjak – Bucuresti1.mp4” -> change to 24 FPS ffmpeg -i “Jurjak – Bucuresti.webm” […]

Linux hardware information

# sources: # http://askubuntu.com/questions/18372/how-can-i-find-out-what-ram-a-computer-system-has RAM sudo lshw -short -C memory sudo lshw -C memory sudo dmidecode -t memory VGA memory sudo dmesg | grep Reserving [ 0.000000] Reserving Intel graphics stolen memory at 0x5ef00000-0x7eefffff compute now using a hexadecimal calculator […]

Linux youtube downloader errors

first, let’s see the youtube-dl error youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEmVsSEEP5HDTSik5ZSyOWz0qsS1tPos_ [youtube:playlist] PLEmVsSEEP5HDTSik5ZSyOWz0qsS1tPos_: Downloading webpage [download] Downloading playlist: cantece pt copii in germana [youtube:playlist] playlist cantece pt copii in germana: Downloading 6 videos [download] Downloading video 1 of 6 [youtube] dtZ7U7csvcw: Downloading webpage […]

X server and related managers

See also # nice explanation about the entire startx workflow http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/243195/what-desktop-environment-does-startx-run-and-how-can-i-change-it # explanation about sessions http://askubuntu.com/questions/62833/how-do-i-change-the-default-session-for-when-using-auto-logins # list available desktop environments ls -l /usr/share/xsessions # show current login/display manager cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager # see also lightdm-greeter from Alternatives Configurator: ls -l […]

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

Boost website performance

install ab command sudo apt install apache2-utils ### configure /etc/sysctl.conf: # Uncomment the next line to enable TCP/IP SYN cookies # See http://lwn.net/Articles/277146/ # Note: This may impact IPv6 TCP sessions too net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=0 # https://linux.die.net/man/5/proc # https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt fs.file-max = 6815744 […]