Tutorial of Dual Booting ASUS ROG Ally with Windows and ChimeraOS on the build-in Boot Drive

dual boot, EFS, IT, Linux, steamos
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The Asus Rog Ally comes with preinstalled Windows 11 Home by default, but as a regular PC, it can also run Linux. This guide will describe a method for achieving dual-boot on the internal NVME drive. This guide aims to enable dual-boot functionality between ChimeraOS and the Windows system. Contents TogglePreparationInstallation ImagesStep 1Step 2Step 3Summary Preparation A USB hub, or a docking station, I personally suggest utilizing a docking station that supports PD charging. Two USB drives. Wired network (recommended)/Wireless…
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Install driver for Intel 9560 wireless on Ubuntu 18.04

Amefs, EFS, Linux, ThinkPad
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ThinkPad X1 carbon 7th Gen notebook uses an Intel 9560 wireless card, which not work in Ubuntu 18.04 by default. I made a simple tutorial to show you how to fix it. Contents ToggleInstall the driverSign your driverReference Install the driver We need to compile a kernel module and firmware for it: sudo apt update sudo apt install git build-essential git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/backport-iwlwifi.git cd backport-iwlwifi/ make defconfig-iwlwifi-public sed -i 's/CPTCFG_IWLMVM_VENDOR_CMDS=y/# CPTCFG_IWLMVM_VENDOR_CMDS is not set/' .config make -j$(nproc) sudo make install…
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Compile Nginx 64bit on Windows

Amefs, EFS, Linux
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Nginx is a well known webservice software, people usually use lnmp/lamp(linux nginx/apache mysql php) as Web server environment. This time I will try to make a simply index service for windows to provide download service. The Nginx has it’s basic index service named autoindex, but the layout is so bad, it didn’t provide any search service. I found a alternative index service fancyindex, it can elegant finish such work. Contents TogglePrepare:compile environment:get the source code:Edit configuration for compiling:Edit configuration for…
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Compile rtorrent-0.9.4 on ubuntu 18.04

Amefs, EFS, Linux, seedbox
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Some people still use rtorrent 0.9.4 due to some reasons, but It’s impossible to compile rtorrent-0.9.4 in ubuntu 18.04 directly: You will see warning: macro ‘AM_PATH_CPPUNIT’ not found in library and libtoolize: Consider adding ‘-I m4’ to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am while running config. You may also receive a message about openssl version error. We can simply add support for ubuntu 18.04 with following patches. patch for libtorrent-0.13.4 diff -Nur libtorrent-0.13.4/configure.ac libtorrent-0.13.4-patched/configure.ac --- libtorrent-0.13.4/configure.ac 2019-01-12 14:09:46.769154822 -0500 +++ libtorrent-0.13.4-patched/configure.ac 2014-05-14 10:18:48.000000000…
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Disable Deluge-Web Authorization

Amefs, EFS, Linux, seedbox
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The Deluge-web has a build-in Authorization, you need to input your password to manage your client. If we already have a reverse proxy for it(I usually add ssl and htpasswd via proxy), Deluge-Web will be useless, we can disable this build-in auth by folloing steps. Stop Deluge-Web service: killall deluged killall deluge-web modify following files: [deluge.egg]/ui/web/js/deluge-all.js, usually the [deluge.egg] is /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/deluge/ or /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/deluge-1.3.15-py2.7.egg/deluge. find section “deluge.LoginWindow” and replace the function (it is located near the end of the minified line)…
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Transmission Multiple daemon instances

Amefs, EFS, Linux, seedbox
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Transmission is a lightweight and stable BT client, it can keep thousands of torrents without crash, so I use it to keep seeding. Contents ToggleAbout Multiple-User in TransmissionStep1:Step2:Step3:Step4: About Multiple-User in Transmission Transmission has a daemon called “transmission-daemon”, it can support Multiple instances with Multiple-User. But in a Debian like system, the apt package will config with a unique user “debian-transmission”. It use the config file /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json, this file also a symlink of /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json. Usually, transmission will start a transmission service with…
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QuickBox CE vs Pro: Which Is Better?

Amefs, EFS, Linux, seedbox
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This year the quickbox.io released the QuickBox Pro. The price is 35$/year, what differences between Community edition and Professional edition? Is it worth 35$ to get the Pro version? Contents ToggleWhat difference?Is it Worth? What difference? There is already a official comperation in quickbox.io The eey differences between Pro and CE are like following: The design of dashboard, and some widgets. e.g. traffic monitor, application manager; Web service. In Community use  Apache + php7.0, in Pro use nginx + php7.2; Authorization…
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Recording about importing WordPress database

Amefs, EFS, Wordpress
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Recently I updated WordPress theme, the theme Zephyr requires at least mysql 5.6 and PHP 7, so I had to upgrade these environment. The environment was outof date secense last maintenance, I decided to update the lnmp environment and import the WordPress database after upgrade. To backup WordPress data is not very hard, just be careful about your database, config file, and media files. After upgrading, I import the whole database, but find a error notice when I create new post…
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l-smash GUI 2 (WPF)

Amefs, EFS, IT, Video processing
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About 1 year age I wrote the l-smash GUI project, I used Winform at that moment. This time I used the new WPF framework (by Kice) to rebuild the l-smash GUI 2. l-smash GUI 2 is a simple graphic interface for L-SMASH Muxer/Remuxer, It can support muxing/remuxing of video, audio and chapter. This GUI only provide the most commonly used mux/remux functions and the timelineeditor function. You can create a vfr video clip with the timelineeditor. In this new GUI, the muxing/remuxing operation…
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Set resolution on headless server

Amefs, EFS, Linux, seedbox
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Sometimes we use the headless server with a vnc desktop, the desktop will usually keep the lowest resolution (800*600). Even worse, its resolution cannot be modified directly. So we need a dummy drive to solve it. the Following was tested in Debian 9: first install video card drive: apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-dummy Then paste following in “xorg.conf”. This config file is usually not exist in modern OS. These OS can detect most of the monitor and auto setup. But we can…
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