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I bought a PDP Afterglow XBOX 360 wired controller at Walmart last month. It is $36.96 plus tax. Signature Afterglow lighting SmartTrack provides superior analog stick technology Ergonomic R2 and L2 buttons It looks very cool when playing the game...
I always want to have my own arcade game machine. Today I tried Lakka, actually, I tried RetroPi before. Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown game console. First of all, I...
I have tried to make a Bluetooth speaker with raspberry Pi three months ago. It was failed because of the old Bluetooth 2.0 USB device. It is too slow to get the smooth audio transferring. Now I have a new...
The world is jumping towards upgrade as new inventions are scarce and upgrades are a plenty. Microsoft Windows has been one such franchise. People are often heard saying, we are happy with the current windows and don’t need an upgrade....
Just because you own a small business does not mean your security threats are small. Small businesses are especially vulnerable due to their lack of security. Forty-three percent of cyber attacks target small businesses. Cyber criminals are aware of the...
My old DRW-24B1st DVD writer is not working anymore. I can not recognize most of the blank DVD-R disks. I can not use it to burn DVD or CD. So, I have to buy a new one. I check the...
Anyone using the internet today with relative ease probably knows, and accepts the fact that their data is being collected, compiled and stored away. In fact, this knowledge is so common that many of us just shrug our shoulders and...
Afte last post, my php-fpm support the dbase database file now. Here is an example php script. $db = dbase_open('../db/clients.dbf',0); if ($db){ $record_numbers = dbase_numrecords($db); for ($i = 1; $i <= $record_numbers; $i++) { $row = dbase_get_record_with_names($db, $i); if (...
Here is the simple way to install the dbase extension. One command only. sudo pecl install dbase-7.0.0beta1 It will install the extension for you. You just need to restart php7.0-fpm service. Check the php information. If your php is...
I followed the instruction mostly based on mote0230 github. Please be noticed that updating (and probably inserting) with arrays that contain named indexes, is not working. For my project, it is OK. I just need to read the data from...
Choosing the Right Cellphone Accessory for Your Lifestyle Selecting a phone or tablet device used to be your biggest decision, but there’s more to these gadgets today. Once that shiny item is in your hands, you need to protect and...
I have an old model Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Model B rev2, which I got five years ago. And I have a retired speakers. So I think, maybe I can make a bluetooth speaker system with this Pi. I chaecked...
When I use Transmission to do the downloading, I see some figures on the web control panel of Transmission. Those are technical terms. Such as Seeder, Leecher, Ratio, Trackers, Peers, etc. So the questions come. What is a seeder? What...
I bought a Sound Level Meter at Taobao last fall in China. Now I would like to test it indoor first.
My old NAS has retired a month ago. D-Link DNS-323, a very classic device, came to my house in Nov. 2009. It worked for me more than seven years. The very beginning idea to get a NAS at home: 1)...