Ant Media Server on Ubuntu 18.04

This short guide will show you how to install Ant Media Server (Community Edition) on a Ubuntu 18.04 VPS server. Ant Media Server is a fork of Red5. The community Edition is free, but it does have its limitations that can be unlocked by purchasing a license. It runs on Java, so we’re also installing that on our server. The server that I used in this example has Nginx installed …

Fix the Nginx module in Webmin (Ubuntu 18.04)

For a long time now, the Nginx plugin that exists for Webmin did not work after installing it on Ubuntu/Debian. I never got around to figure out how to fix this but today I did. Here’s how to fix the Nginx plugin in Webmin on a Ubuntu server. Now in all honesty I have no idea what step of all the steps below did the trick of actually getting it …

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Thunderdome Tattoos van Vlaamse Gabber Nick

This clip is from Spike TV. Some tattoo show, I can’t remember the name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiN0D0srdCI If you like the video, you should really subscribe to my channel because YouTube wants you to do so. As you can see from the image below, I need 1000 subscribers before YouTube will start paying me money for my YouTube content. So everybody SUBSCRIBE!

Breaking Bad Again

My dad still hasn’t seen Breaking Bad but never mind that right now. I watched the whole series for the 4th or maybe 5th time now. Seems like the more you watch it the better it gets. It’s just indescribable so I’m not going to try again. But I do want to talk about the episode that comes before the series finale episode. I noticed today that it gives me …

Block all traffic from a Geo-located country with UFW firewall on Ubuntu

Update 30-7-2023 – This post is a bit old. I have written a new article on the subject. Check it out here: https://www.ustoopia.nl/featured/block-countries-based-on-geo-data-with-ufw-firewall/ I was noticing some really strange requests in my web server’s log files on a VPS that I manage. Requests that seem to be focused on finding vulnerabilities or exploits. Turns out, most of the originating IP addresses are from China. Since the VPS is not behind …

Configuring DNS-Over-HTTPS on RaspberryPi running Pi-Hole

In this article I will show you all the steps you will need to set up DNS-over-HTTPS to Cloudflared on a Raspberry Pi that’s running Pi-Hole on RaspBian Stretch OS. This is called an Argo Tunnel. Now you might think to yourself; What does all this even mean? Let me explain… A Raspberry Pi is a really cheap, tiny computer that has very low power consumption. These tiny computers cost …

Unforeseen Consequences

As an old fart, I remember playing games like Half-Life and Half-Life II and of course Counter-Strike when it was still just a beta mod for HL. I played Counter-Strike for countless and many of times. Also, I played Half-Life and HL2 (source) even more. This is why I can really appreciate this docu video on YouTube that is all about HL, and it’s history and everything else related.

YES!!

Many good things are coming next summer. This is one of them! The other one being classic servers of course. And yes, I’m a middle-aged adult man who loves both these things.

How to set up Nginx+RTMP live stream server

IMPORTANT UPDATE! These guides may be outdated. Please see the new guide here: https://www.ustoopia.nl/featured/nginx-rtmp-hls-ssl-videojs-on-ubuntu-18-04/ I made a couple of YouTube video’s with some instructions on how to set up your own private live-stream server using Nginx running on Ubuntu 18.04. . Click on the CONTINUE READING link below to see a copy of the variables that I used in the video’s. You can also find it on my Pastebin if …

Gutenberg is coming to WordPress! Soon!

Gutenberg is a feature that has been under development for a while now, will be released with version 5 of WordPress in the very near future. Until that time, it can be installed as a WP Plugin if you want to try it out. I’m pretty excited about this, cause it looks pretty awesome to me. The designers are already thinking ahead, and here is how they see the future …

Main rules of the Internet

Today I was in a conversation and I wanted to refer to a very famous rule that belongs to “the main rules of the internet“, but I couldn’t remember it so that conversation went weird really fast. So after I googled it, and it turns out I was trying to refer to rule 34 (There is porn of it, no exceptions. of the internet what is rule 34 zelda pokemon …

BFA is just around the corner

And with BFA I mean the new Word of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth. This new expansion will be released exactly one week from now. The last expansion, Legion, was one of the best expansions we’ve seen over the years. I’ve enjoyed it very much. But to be honest, I stopped playing World of Warcraft several months ago. And this freed up a lot of time for other things that …

Google Assistant for Android

If you are an Android user, you will probably have found a new app called Google Assistant on your mobile recently. It took them long enough! I read an article that said all Android users would receive the app in the next couple of days when living in the Netherlands. I waited for a while, and then a bit, and in the end I waited well over a week, when …

Digital LSD

Have you ever used a hallucinogenic drug in your life? If so, then the following video might put a smile on your face because this “digital LSD” really works. See for yourself. But this experiment is perhaps even more fun for people who have never used any hallucinogenics, but are perhaps a bit curious to find out what the effects are a bit. But no worries, you won’t have to …

Client setup for OpenVPN on Raspbian

In my previous post I explained how to set up an OpenVPN server on Raspbian (April 2018 release) on any model Raspberry Pi. Here’s how to set up the client certificates that you can import in your OpenVPN client app on your desktop or mobile. All these commands are to be entered in the console as root user. cd /etc/openvpn/certs source ./vars ./build-key client mkdir /etc/openvpn/client cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/client.conf /etc/openvpn/client/client.ovpn Edit …

OpenVPN on Raspbian (Raspberry Pi)

This weekend, I heard a friend say that he wants to turn his Raspberry Pi into a VPN server. Since I still had an old Raspberry Pi lying around I decided to install the latest version of Raspbian on it (April 2018 release) and also install OpenVPN on it, record how I did this, and show my friend how he can easily do the same on his Raspberry Pi. I …

Public DNS servers 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1

I’ve been using the public Google DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for several years now. It was once said that using these DNS servers would result in a noticeable speed increase when compared with the DNS servers that your internet provider makes you use. I started using the Google servers and the addresses immediately got stuck in my head, so I haven’t stopped using them since. Until today, that is…I’ve …

Install MariaDB 10.1 on Ubuntu16.04

I have Ubuntu16.04 servers running, and I want to run database engines like MariaDB on it. Normally I would just type sudo apt install mariadb-server and the database system would be up and running in under two minutes. Ubuntu16.04 will install version 10.0 by default, but I want to install a different version. At the very least, 10.1. Why 10.1 you might ask? Well because 10.1 was the first release …