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ServeTheHome, hardware review site and other things

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Found this nice website http://www.servethehome.com/, a hardware review site, while I was searching for some benchmarks of REDIS running on Avoton c2550 CPUs…

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DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

CloudFlare, Sh*ts

My Google Chrome is returning me the error DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN while I’m trying to access one of my subdomains that I’v recently moved (forced to) http to https.

I’v tried to flush my DNS servers… it didn’t worked :/

sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

You *must* change your DNS servers to another one… I usually OpenDNS some times…

OpenDNS IP Addresses

  • 208.67.222.222
  • 208.67.220.220

By the way! – I didn’t made this – I’v removed all my browser’s cache.

Oreilly High Performance Browser Networking – free ebook

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hpbncover

How prepared are you to build fast and efficient web applications? This eloquent book provides what every web developer should know about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications—including HTTP 2.0 and XHR improvements, Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSocket, and WebRTC.

Author Ilya Grigorik, a web performance engineer at Google, demonstrates performance optimization best practices for TCP, UDP, and TLS protocols, and explains unique wireless and mobile network optimization requirements. You’ll then dive into performance characteristics of technologies such as HTTP 2.0, client-side network scripting with XHR, real-time streaming with SSE and WebSocket, and P2P communication with WebRTC.

  • Deliver optimal TCP, UDP, and TLS performance
  • Optimize network performance over 3G/4G mobile networks
  • Develop fast and energy-efficient mobile applications
  • Address bottlenecks in HTTP 1.x and other browser protocols
  • Plan for and deliver the best HTTP 2.0 performance
  • Enable efficient real-time streaming in the browser
  • Create efficient peer-to-peer videoconferencing and low-latency applications with real-time WebRTC transports

 

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/index.html

nginx – allow only one IP to access the domain/subdomain

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Restricting Access

Access can be allowed or denied by the IP address of a client or by using the HTTP basic authentication.To allow or deny access from a certain set of addresses, or all addresses, use the allow and deny directives:

location / {
    allow 192.168.1.1/24;
    allow 127.0.0.1;
    deny 192.168.1.2;
    deny all;
}

Copy&Past from http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/restricting-access/

14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites, from Steve Souders

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High Performance Web Sites

14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites

 

VideoJS – full width

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So,

I’m deploying a VideoJS on a website since HTML5 player player doesn’t has sound control…. I want the player to have 100% of the div’s width…. any normal attempt – css, inline css blablabla didn’t worked….
From several solutions that I’v found on the interwebs 🙂 this was the one that worked out… THIS ONE! –> http://jsfiddle.net/alexbell/Zs5WB/

It was posted on VideoJS – Auto height based on aspect ratio #771  by baloneysandwiches.
On his post there’s a reference for a 2009 article on A List Apart – Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video.