Looking for a cheap solution to encode videos I created a docker container and an encoding script to automate this. Dockerfile: FROM ubuntu RUN /bin/bash -c ‘apt update && apt -y install handbrake-cli cpulimit psmisc’ COPY ./encode.sh / RUN /bin/bash -c ‘chmod +x encode.sh;mkdir /media/downloads’ VOLUME /media/downloads ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"] encode.sh: #!/bin/bash SRC="/media/downloads/sources" DEST="/media/downloads/encoded" DEST_EXT=mp4 HANDBRAKE_CLI=HandBrakeCLI […]
Month: October 2018
A font to remember what you read
Sans Forgetica is a downloadable font that is scientifically designed to help you remember your study notes. http://sansforgetica.rmit/
last month Facebook announced its worst-ever security breach that allowed an unknown group of hackers to steal secret access tokens for millions of accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in the ‘View As’ feature. Here’s How to Check If You Are One of 30 Million Affected Users: Facebook said users can check whether they […]
KDE Plasma 5.14 is out
New in Plasma 5.14 New Features There’s a new Display Configuration widget for screen management which is useful for presentations. The Audio Volume widget now has a built in speaker test feature moved from Phonon settings. The Network widget now works for SSH VPN tunnels again. Switching primary monitor when plugging in or unplugging monitors […]
Bobber!
When installing Mariadb on Ubuntu I always have the problem of root password not set and authentication plugin set to unix_socket. The commands below solve the issues. # change to root sudo -s # stop mariadb server systemctl stop mariadb # start mariadb in safe mode mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables –skip-networking & # log into mariadb without […]