Transmission is a lightweight and stable BT client, it can keep thousands of torrents without crash, so I use it to keep seeding. 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 debian-transmission group. But we will…

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? 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 service: CE use htpasswd with…

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…