Speed test with Shaw Speedtest
The Internet Service Provider I use is CIK Telcom. It is a virtual ISP. The connection is cable, actually from Shaw cable facility. I did the speed test a long time ago, in 2008. # Up to 5 Mbps download...
Author: David Yin
About the Little Black Book
I go to Holy Cross Parish every Saturday. For studying and Sunday Mass. This Saturday, I saw a pile of black books on the desk. These are the little black book. Six-minute meditations on the Sunday Gospels of Lent (Cycle...
Marketing Ideas To Boost Your Business Into the Spotlight
Running a successful business is no small task. In order for you to get your company to the place you desire, it can be wise to take time to think about where you could be making adjustments to your current...
They Key Points to Running a Successful Online Business
Running an online business might seem daunting if you don’t know where to begin. You want to have a setup that will encourage growth while covering all of your bases at the same time. Here is what you should know...
Heavy Snow in Vancouver Jan. 2020
From 2020.01.12 to 2020.01.16. It is snowing everywhere in Greater Vancouver. My wife took a lot of pictures. There are some for sharing. More than 27 inches.
Another year
2019 is over. It is the 27th of the first month of 2020. I have not posted anything for more than one month. It is a very hard time for a lot of people. Christmas, New Year, Lunar New Year....
How to Digitize Your Most Important Paper Files
Are you looking for ways to preserve vital paperwork? Paper can only last for so many years, even when you preserve it well. This is one reason why people are digitizing their most important documents. If you read on, you’ll...
High CPU usage on Dell Inspiron 5570
It is in November 2019. There is a laptop, Dell Inspiron 5570. It is my mother in law’s laptop. Recently she found it is so slow and ask my help. I connected this laptop through Teamviewer. I checked the CPU...
Make the PHP support Microsoft Access MDB file on Ubuntu 18.04
The very first step is to prepare the Ubuntu server. I installed the Ubuntu 18.04 on a VM with 1CPU, 1024MB memory and 16GB storage room. After the installation. Start the Ubuntu server and ssh to it.
Non-Profit Organization in Canada
I am going to work within a non-profit organization in BC Canada. So I want to know more about it. What is a Non-Profit Corporation? A non-profit corporation is a legal entity separate from its members and directors formed for...
Migrating GitLab to another Server from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04
Because my old Gitlab is running on a Ubuntu 16.04 server. The latest LTS version of Ubuntu is already 18.04 for more than one year. I was thinking about to directly upgrade the server from 16.04 to 18.04. There are...
Upgrade my Kindle Paperwhite 7th Gen. to v5.12.2
My Kindle Paperwhite 7th Generation was upgraded to 5.11.1.1 early this year. Late, I upgrade the firmware to 5.11.2. Now it is another upgrade available online. Check the version before upgrading. I touched the settings and settings again,...
php script timeout on php7.2-fpm and Nginx Webserver
Here is the background. It is a php script that is accessed through a browser. Server: Ubuntu 18.04 Web server: Nginx 1.14 php: php7.2-fpm The script always stoped on 60 seconds. The Nginx error log is shown below: 2019/10/23...
Rosary Miracle Story
Vienna, Austria, September 12, 1955: After World War II, Austria was divided between four countries: America, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia, which was still communist. The section of Austria controlled by the communists was the richest and included the...
Classification of files and tips to recover them
There are literally hundreds of computer files and formats that exist. It becomes impossible to understand and remember all of them. Hence, we are going to look at a broad classification of files, understand the major file types and how...