Install a new Bathroom Fan
I bought a bathroom fan at Costco Warehouse at a discounted price. Dewstop Bathroom Fan and Switch After installation, it is so quiet that I can barely hear it. The steps are simple. The work is not easy for me....
Kobo Elipsa 2E – a Big Screen eReader
I bought a Kobo Elipsa 2E last week, April 15. After three days, the Amazon delivery guy handed over the box to me. Kobo Elipsa 2E I bought it on Amazon.ca. $499.99 plus tax, the total is $559.99. Features of...
The attack is going on
UPDATE 1: The DoS attack is going on. I will report it every day here. Until 2025/4/9 11:09 PM, 47,085,003 bad requests from China in the past few days. UPDATE 2: April 10, 2025, the spammer stopped attacking for a...
One record of Layer 7 DoS Attact
Today, I received an email from a website monitoring service. It said my site was down. 1) The very first step is to try the website. The browser can not open it. 2) I sign in to the PVE, and...
Manually Downloading Realtek PCIe Driver
I am trying to download the network interface card driver manually. It is Realtek PCIe GBE Family controller. After a Google search, I landed on the official download list. This software supports a lot of Realtek products. From GBE or...
MyISAM and innodb engine
I have a VM that hosts a few websites there. Today, I ran the mysqltuner.pl script to check the performance and see if there is any recommondation. I know I have a database with over 900M data. There are 67...
Benchmarks Ubuntu 22.04 vs Ubuntu 24.04
Here is my Contabo VPS. I upgraded it from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04. So, let us see the difference before and after. In the Ubuntu 22.04
DigitalOcean VPS choice
Here is my new comparison of DigitalOcean VPS. Shared CPU Basic plan. I can choose from Regular CPU to Premium Intel CPU. I have a Five-year-old Regular CPU the smallest plan, $6 monthly. Then I created a new VPS, Premium...
Got Telus PureFibre Internet installation
The day before yesterday, the Telus technician came to my home, a townhouse. He installed the PureFibre Internet connection. In the utility room in a separate building, he installed a converter, a Fibre cable plugged into it, and an RJ11...
Make a small box for the AQI project
About half a year ago, I made a project of AQI device with Raspberry Pi Pico W and ENS160+AHT21 chips. I put them on a block of 2X4 wood. Now I have a chance to make a box with my...
New PC for my wife – Acer Aspire TC-1775-UR12
My wife’s computer is about nine years old. I got the motherboard and CPU in San Francisco when my family was with my parents-in-law. It is an Intel i5 6500 and an Asus H110M-C. I know it has been over...
No more space of my Web Server
This afternoon, I found my site was not accessible when I tried it. So I went to the Webmin panel. It loaded, but with a warning, disk space is running out. It is kind of urgent. All websites on this...
Replace the battery of Mi A1 smartphone
I changed the battery of the Mi A1 cellphone last week. The battery was so bad. It needs a charge even if I just used it for one or two hours as a hot spot. I bought the battery from...
Replace the Kindle Touch Battery
I have a Kindle Touch 4th generation. It is 12 years old. Working but the battery is only a few hours in standby mode. I bought a replacement battery on Tmall.com. Chinese Yuan 36. The very first step is to...
Erase the HDD with KillDisk
I want to introduce a software, KillDisk. I used it to wipe out or erase an HDD. I have an HDD with a Smart Warning. Western Digital WD Caviar Green. WD20EARS, 2.0TB SATA/64MB Cache. Product of Thailand Date: 19, Jul...