Netflix, PrimeVideo stutter on Chrome

Here is a step by step process to fix the Chrome stutter issue for Netflix.

1. Close Chrome.

2. Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\

2. Go into the folder in there with a version number, mine was called 71.0.3578.98.

3. Delete the WidevineCdm folder.

4. Open Chrome, navigate to http://chrome://components and click "Check for Updates" on the Widevine Content Decryption Module, which installs version 4.10.1146.0.

5. Close Chrome.

6. Navigate to the folder %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\WidevineCdm

7. Rename the folder in there from 4.10.1146.0 to 4.10.1346.0

8. Open Chrome and test.

Please let me know if this fixes your problem like it has for me.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Netflix-stutter-on-Chrome

All Credits go to Jeremy LeMar!

That method worked for me. so I wanted to make another copy for archival purposes!

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7 Days to Die Starvation - Custom GUI

Hi there fellow players!

While searching the Internet for a good Starvation mod GUI.
I've found some nice looking and pretty basic one.

Although I did not find the original author's name.

I have changed the GUI to better suit my taste.

And I am willing to share it with you all :)

Download or Copy the contents of this windows.xml file into:

(7 Days To Die Starvation install dir)\Data\Config\XUi\windows.xml
and overwrite its contents. Enjoy :D

UNITY STARTUP CRASH FIX

Unity Startup Crash problem fix-

Check your graphic card is up-to date , may be its the problem of graphic card.
If your graphic card is not up-to date update it.

If it doesn't solve your problem.

Check if there is any problem with your directx.

to check the directx
Press WINDOWS+R and type dxdiag and hit enter.
if there is no pop up about error and you can see your directx version there then your directx is god to go but if you get an error regarding DIRECTSHOW the it is the problems of codec and if you cant see any version of directx there then you need to install directx in your pc.

to solve the problem of DIRECTSHOW download the Codectweak tool to fix codec causing this problem.
and to install directx just download the directx from the official microsoft website and install.

if your unity still crashes at startup then it is the problem of some conflicting applications you have installed on your pc. Basically it is by the adblocker and malwares from LAVASOFT which are hard to detect by any anti-malware programs so you have to delete them manually.

To do this go to your control panel and search for any
Lavasoft application and uninstall them.
then go to the C:/Windows/System32 and find LavasoftTcpServices32.dll and another file under it named with Lavasoft you cant delete them if you try , so to do this run your command prompt with admin permissions and type following command

netsh winsock reset

It will ask you to resatart your computer and if not just restart your computer, now you can easily delete those files.
jus go to the C:/windows/system32 and delete LavasoftTcpServices.dll and another lavasoft file under it.
Sometimes these Lavasoft dll files are also found in SysWOW64 , so it will be good to cross check C:/windows/sysWOW64 for any lavasoft dll and if you find any delete them and you are done here.

Try to open your unity now , hope it will not crash this time.


If your unity is still Crashing just go to the crash report file and send it to us we will help you.

You will find your unity crash file at

C:\Users\HEWLETT PACKARD\AppData\Local\CrashDumps


Source: http://13codeplustech.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/unity-startup-crash-fix.html

[ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied

If you are getting this error messages when trying to start you MySQL server:
[ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't create/write to file '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 13)
[ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: Permission denied

You may want to try this to fix mysqld permissions:
sudo chgrp mysql /var/run/mysqld/
sudo chmod g+w /var/run/mysqld/

You might also need to change the permissions of the PID file itself:
sudo chgrp mysql /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
sudo chmod g+w /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

And then just start your MySQL server :)

Raspberry Pi HDMI-VGA Converter

To connect your Raspberry Pi to an old monitor using HDMI-VGA Converter.
Connect your Raspberry Pi SD card to your computer. find and open the config.txt file on it using any text editor of your choice.
Then nn-comment the following lines:

hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=16
hdmi_drive=2

The above hdmi_mode value set resolution to 1024x768 60Hz which will work with most of old and new monitors.

Special thanks to S.Chen from Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/review/R396ASQCRHL7EV/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm/?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B007KFVQXI&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=

Hi guys!
If you are looking for a good VPS Host. then you should try DigitalOcean VPS!
I can tell you that I don't have any Linux background at all and have successfully setup an Apache web server with PHP and MySQL database on my Ubuntu VPS at DigitalOcean!
I did not have to contact their support service for any reason yet. So I can not judge their customer support yet.
But I can say that probably you will not need it at all. because everything is just working.
Plus their prices are really cheap! so you can try their service for as low as $5 USD (Ubuntu LAMP, 1 CPU Core, 512MB RAM, 20GB SSD) with a monthly payment without contract. so you can quit at any point.
I run a pretty complex website that connect to couple MySQL databases that are spread around the world (London, Germany, Canada, USA not including the VPS itself which is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands). on every page and the website page load in under 3 seconds.
I ran this same website on other VPS servers like GoDaddy Windows VPS Economy for $39.99 USD (Win2008, 2 CPU Core's, 2GB RAM, 40GB HDD Apache, PHP, MySQL) and the page loading time was around 10-25 seconds and it crashed pretty often. I even had to make a schedule to automatically restart the Apache server every 15 minutes.
And the same website at shared hosting like Servage (they have a special page on my blog that describes their service. make sure to read it too... they have shutdown this same website couple times saying that it was generating lots of load on their website. see the image below that show the resource usage of the same website hosted at DigitalOcean) was loading in 5-30 seconds.

Screenshot of my droplet on DigitalOcean $5 VPS

So don't even waste your time on other VPS services. This one is cheap and super fast!

-Alex

Resetting the Root Password: Unix Systems

On Unix, use the following procedure to reset the password for all MySQL root accounts. The instructions assume that you will start the server so that it runs using the Unix login account that you normally use for running the server. For example, if you run the server using the mysql login account, you should log in as mysql before using the instructions. Alternatively, you can log in as root, but in this case you must start mysqld with the --user=mysql option. If you start the server as root without using --user=mysql, the server may create root-owned files in the data directory, such as log files, and these may cause permission-related problems for future server startups. If that happens, you will need to either change the ownership of the files to mysql or remove them.

Log on to your system as the Unix user that the mysqld server runs as (for example, mysql).

Locate the .pid file that contains the server's process ID. The exact location and name of this file depend on your distribution, host name, and configuration. Common locations are /var/lib/mysql/, /var/run/mysqld/, and /usr/local/mysql/data/. Generally, the file name has an extension of .pid and begins with either mysqld or your system's host name.

You can stop the MySQL server by sending a normal kill (not kill -9) to the mysqld process, using the path name of the .pid file in the following command:

shell> kill `cat /mysql-data-directory/host_name.pid`
Use backticks (not forward quotation marks) with the cat command. These cause the output of cat to be substituted into the kill command.

Create a text file containing the following statements. Replace the password with the password that you want to use.

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('MyNewPass') WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Write the UPDATE and FLUSH statements each on a single line. The UPDATE statement resets the password for all root accounts, and the FLUSH statement tells the server to reload the grant tables into memory so that it notices the password change.

Save the file. For this example, the file will be named /home/me/mysql-init. The file contains the password, so it should not be saved where it can be read by other users. If you are not logged in as mysql (the user the server runs as), make sure that the file has permissions that permit mysql to read it.

Start the MySQL server with the special --init-file option:

shell> mysqld_safe --init-file=/home/me/mysql-init &
The server executes the contents of the file named by the --init-file option at startup, changing each root account password.

After the server has started successfully, delete /home/me/mysql-init.

You should now be able to connect to the MySQL server as root using the new password. Stop the server and restart it normally.

source: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html

500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot

This is a result of a security "feature" that has been added in the latest update, and released in the Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade. The problem is that users' root directory is writable, which isnt allowed when using chroot restrictions in the new update. Fortunately, the good folks at The Fronteer Group have backported vsftp until the full release of ver 3 of vsftp comes out. So here is what you do:

1. login as root (or sudo..) and do the following:
2. apt-get install python-software-properties
3. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thefrontiergroup/vsftpd
4. sudo apt-get update
5. sudo apt-get install vsftpd
6. vi /etc/vsftpd.conf and add the following
allow_writeable_chroot=YES
7. sudo service vsftpd restart

source: http://www.mikestechblog.com/joomla/operating-systems-section/operating-systems-ubuntu/155-500-oops-vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot.html

Windows XP Crashing Print Spooler

Short version is that it requires deleting registry keys and reinstalling printers:

1. Left-click the Start button, and then click Run.
2. In the Open: box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. In the Registry Editor window, locate the following registry key, then left-click to highlight it:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers
    Note: The registry entries for the printer drivers that are installed on the computer are stored in the Version-x subkeys, where x is a number.
4. Right-click each printer driver subkey, and then click to select the Delete option.
5. In the Confirm Deletion window, click Yes when prompted to confirm the deletion.
6. Locate the following registry key, then left-click to highlight it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors
7. Verify that the following five subkeys exist for the default print monitors:
       a. BJ Language Monitor
       b. Local Port
       c. PJL Language Monitor
       d. Standard TCP/IP Port
       e. USB Monitor
8. Right-click each printer driver not listed in the subkey listing above, and then click to select the Delete option.
9. In the Confirm Deletion window, click Yes when prompted to confirm the deletion.
10. Close the Registry Editor window.

The file was blocked because it does not have a valid digital signature

Method 1:
To run a particular application that doesn’t have a valid Digital signature follow the steps mentioned below.
1. Right click on the file or program that you are not able to access.
2. Go to properties and click “Unblock”.
3. Try to run the application again. 

Method 2:
Follow the steps mentioned below to unblock the files that do not have a valid digital signature to load on your system.
1. Click on start button.
2. Type “Internet Explorer” in the “Start Search Box” and select it from the menu.
3. Click on “Tools” in the menu bar and select “Internet Options”.
4. Click on “Advanced tab” and locate “Allow software to run or install even if the signature is invalid” under the “Security” category and check the box.
5. Click Apply and then Ok.
6. Close the Internet Explorer and restart Internet Explorer.