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It is a rather old PC, 4th Gen intel at best, I have this motherboard with an Intel Xeon XPU, and 64GB of ram, so it is worth a try, I will start by ordering this TPM module from Amazon (here)
Once i receive it, I will come back and explain the whole experience, and if this works out of the box with windows 11, or if i need to fiddle with anything
I used to think screen protectors were applied in three steps, peel, stick, peel the other side, Not this one though !
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This is one different screen protector that comes with it’s own UV lamp ! it is the MOWEI (evatmaster) ! but is it worth all the hassle ? (See it on Amazon)
The claim is that it is a 9/10 on the hardness scale (Mohs scale), which is obviously hard to believe ! actually, I am very darn sure it is not, that is literally 1 step below diamond, so we all know the claim is not true, but it probably is scratch proof to a good extent. (Some guy tested the hardness, turned out to start scratching at 6, and get heavily scratched at 7, which is not bad, but again, nowhere near 9, (example: sapphire, the material the iPhone glass is made of is only theoretically a 9, but the impurities put it at around 8)
Okay, So let me start with installing it ! it comes with 3 Videos on how to install, how to remove bubbles, and how to remove the protector.
Let me give you the lowdown first, Up to now the experience is perfect, no lift with any of the covers I have, fingerprint sensor works perfectly, and cameras are very clear, also before curing with the UV lamp, you can drive the bubbles out easily, spills from the glue are easy to remove by hand, and up to now, the phone cover does not cause any lift, but i cured it far longer than the 2 minutes in the instructions.
If the excess glue is not going into dangouris places (your USB port or speakers, cure first, and then the glue comes out easly)
If you are like me, running only your own projects on a server, you might want to skip authentication
the changes I generally make to the file /etc/redis/redis.conf are
1- At the very beginning, limit the RAM redis can use with the line
maxmemory 2gb
2- Change the supervisor to systemd by modifying the line
supervised no
to
supervised systemd
Now, to test the new config, from the command line, run the following commands
systemctl restart redis-server redis-cli ping config get maxmemory quit
You have just configured redis and tested your new settings.
The reason I am enabling this in my virtual machine is to develop with android studio under windows or Linux in a dedicated development machine (Let us call it an android development virtual machine), you will need to enable nested virtualization for the virtual android phone that comes with Android studio, there are many occasions where you need nested virtualization, so let us see what we need to do.
1- Check if our system allows nested virtualization with the following line
cat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/nested
If this returns a Y or a 1, then we are good to go to the next step, if not, then execute the following to enable the feature on the host system
echo 'options kvm_intel nested=1' >> /etc/modprobe.d/qemu-system-x86.conf
Now, with that out of the way, we can move to the next step
2- Enable nested virtualization in the config of the virtual machine, either with virsh edit or edit the file manually and reload it, whatever you are used to doing should work
virsh edit androiddev
Now, specify either host-model OR host-passthrough, host model is more compatible when moving the virtual machine to a new CPU, while host-passthrough will deliver absolutly all CPU features to the guest os, but is very unfriendly to moving the machine to a different KVM host
<cpu mode='host-model'>
The original firmware based on debian did come with a DLNA server, in this post, I am only dealing with openWRT (You need to change the firmware due to a serious security issue on the NAS drive as shown here)
In openWRT, i recommend you install libffmpeg-full before miniDLNA, since miniDLNA will install libffmpeg-mini which will conflict
opkg update opkg install libffmpeg-full opkg install minidlna luci-app-minidlna
Once the above are done, you can setup your DLNA server from the web interface of openWRT
I would recommend that the database and log files be on the data partition to save space, something you can manually set from within the web interface
to rebuild that database (re-index the files), you will need to stop miniDLNA, run the update and then start the server again
service minidlna stop minidlnad -R service minidlna start
After an apt-get upgrade, phpmyadmin stopped working, I would see a blank page that sets a session cookie but does not show a login screen , just a blank page and the source of the page is also blank
So, i added the following line to my config.inc.php
$cfg['environment'] = 'development';
An right after, the following appeared
Array ( [type] => 1 [message] => Uncaught TypeError: PhpMyAdmin\ConfigStorage\Relation::__construct(): Argument #1 ($dbi) must be of type PhpMyAdmin\DatabaseInterface, null given, called in /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/Twig/RelationExtension.php on line 22 and defined in /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/ConfigStorage/Relation.php:62 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/Twig/RelationExtension.php(22): PhpMyAdmin\ConfigStorage\Relation->__construct() #1 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/ExtensionSet.php(426): PhpMyAdmin\Twig\RelationExtension->getFunctions() #2 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/ExtensionSet.php(411): Twig\ExtensionSet->initExtension() #3 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/ExtensionSet.php(385): Twig\ExtensionSet->initExtensions() #4 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/Environment.php(810): Twig\ExtensionSet->getUnaryOperators() #5 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/Lexer.php(457): Twig\Environment->getUnaryOperators() #6 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/Lexer.php(108): Twig\Lexer->getOperatorRegex() #7 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/Environment.php(466): Twig\Lexer->__construct() #8 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/Environment.php(516): Twig\Environment->tokenize() #9 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/Environment.php(348): Twig\Environment->compileSource() #10 /var/www/html/pma2/vendor/twig/twig/src/Environment.php(309): Twig\Environment->loadTemplate() #11 /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/Template.php(123): Twig\Environment->load() #12 /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/Template.php(156): PhpMyAdmin\Template->load() #13 /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/Core.php(145): PhpMyAdmin\Template->render() #14 /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/Config.php(684): PhpMyAdmin\Core::fatalError() #15 /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/Common.php(169): PhpMyAdmin\Config->checkPermissions() #16 /var/www/html/pma2/index.php(48): PhpMyAdmin\Common::run() #17 {main} thrown [file] => /var/www/html/pma2/libraries/classes/ConfigStorage/Relation.php [line] => 62 )
Turns out, this is an incompatibility (related to session storage) that has only been fixed in the 5.2 snapshot, download that version of phpmyadmin and everything should be fine
The following is a list of plugins I have installed to help with Laravel Development, I will add to them as I go, I will also remove the ones i don’t think were worth it from the list as well
| Plugin | What for | How to use | Publisher |
| Prettier | Very popular plugin to format your code so that it looks tidy | Do take a look at the plugin’s config to tweak it to your liking | Prettier |
| PHP IntelliSense | Advanced Autocomplete and Refactoring support for PHP | Felix Becker | |
| PHP Intelephense | Cooler than PHP IntelliSense | Ben Mewburn | |
| Laravel Extra Intellisense | Self explanatory name ! | ||
| PHP Namespace Resolver | Import and expand PHP namespaces | Mehedi Hassan | |
| laravel-blade | Laravel blade syntax highlighting | Christian Howe | |
| Laravel Snippets | Winnie Lin | ||
| Laravel Blade Snippets | Laravel blade snippets and syntax highlight support | Winnie Lin | |
| Laravel goto view | Quick jump to view ! | codingyu | |
| Better Align | Align code without selecting them first | wwm | |
| Laravel Blade Wrapper | Speed up wrapping code with Blade directives | CTRL + SHIFT + T | lHunte |
| Laravel-goto-components | Takes you to Blade components <x-… with a click | CTRL + CLICK | naoray |
| DotENV | Syntax highlighting for .env files ! | mikestead | |
| Tailwind CSS Intellisense | If you use Tailwind (A css library), this plugin will do all the tailwind magick | Tailwind Labs |
This is probably very easy to use on windows, but i could not find a windows machine,
A quick solution that was not very clear at first was as follows, before you do this, make sure you have unmounted the SD card !
apt-get install exfat-utils
And then run the command
sudo exfatfsck /dev/mmcblk0p1
Got a few of the following error, and answered yes to all
ERROR: unknown entry type 0xc1. Fix (Y/N)? y
And that was that
What services are listening on what ports ?
netstat -tunlp
or the all new ss which shares the same command options
ss -tunlpfor a better view of the files ! (Depending on your setup, you might be able to know which php script is generating outgoing traffic)
lsof -nP -iTCP -sTCP:LISTENSo, before we start, I assume you have already installed Varnish the casual way, and that you have made sure you do not have something else occupying port 80, if nginx for example is listening on port 80, try this post to switch it to a different port (Changing the default port 80 on nginx), if it is a different app, just follow that app’s instructions to change it’s port before asking varnish to listen on it.
To check that port 80 is not occupied and free to use, try the following command
netstat -anpe | grep "80" | grep "LISTEN" If for example you want to know what ports nginx is listening to, try one of the following commands netstat -tlpn| grep nginx or ss -tlpn| grep nginx
Within the results, check if any are using port 80, mind you, a service using port 8083 for example will show up, you need to see if anything is using port 80 , Now, install varnish with the following command.
apt-get install varnish
As you may have noticed, and probably the reason why you are here, varnish will not work !
this is somewhat of an old problem, since Debian moved to systemD back with the Debian 8 release (Jessie), instead of editing the file in /etc/default/varnish, you will need to create a file in /etc/systemd/system/ and name it varnish.service, the contents of such a file should look like the following, note that xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP varnish should be listening on, one of the IPs assigned to the machine running varnish.
So to run the following command
systemctl edit varnish.service
[Unit] Description=Varnish HTTP accelerator Documentation=https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/6.1/ man:varnishd [Service] Type=simple LimitNOFILE=131072 LimitMEMLOCK=82000 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m ExecReload=/usr/share/varnish/varnishreload ProtectSystem=full ProtectHome=true PrivateTmp=true PrivateDevices=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Once you have added the file execute the following
systemctl daemon-reload systemctl restart varnish
Note that the configuration file above uses RAM to cache the content, My recommendation is to use DISK (Disk is cached in ram in a more dynamic and more useful way utilizing all the ram you are not using, while keeping it available to any app that needs it), but that is just me…
To switch from RAM to File system, replace the following in the above as follows
"-s malloc,512m" becomes "-s file,/path/to/cahce/file.bin,100G"