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Posted on December 13, 2015December 31, 2015 Reviews

Make your business mobile with Chelsea

We all know that the world is going mobile. Almost every person has a smart phone. Or, two smart phones, one for business, one for personal use. Smart phone has a screen, small screen. But it is the used most...

Android 6.0.1 update
Posted on December 10, 2015January 15, 2016 Hardware

Nexus 7 (2013) OTA upgrade to Android 6.0.1

It is another OTA upgrade of Nexus 7 (2013). Before upgrade, the   The update size is 66.2MB. Go to the update screen and press DOWNLOAD.

Posted on December 9, 2015December 31, 2015 L.A.M.P.

PHP Benchmark on PHP 7.0

It is a test bed on a VPS. Here is the basic information of it. Ubuntu Linux 14.04.3 Linux 3.13.0-71-generic on x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz, 1 cores 512MB Memory Nginx 1.9.9 PHP 7.0

Posted on December 9, 2015December 31, 2015 WordPress Notes

Upgrade to WordPress 4.4

It is time to upgrade my WordPress installation to 4.4.  

Posted on November 23, 2015December 31, 2015 Web & Network

HTTP/2 vs SPDY 3.1

I have a web site, which was powered by Nginx 1.7. The SPDY 3.1 was enabled. Later last week, I upgraded it to Nginx 1.9.7 mainline version. HTTP/2 already built with Nginx from version 1.9.5.  Why not enable HTTP/2? I...

Posted on November 18, 2015December 31, 2015 Software

Scan Windows 7 System Files

There is a Wind Storm in BC in two days. So many power outages in low mainland area. Even my house has about 10 minutes power outage. All unsaved documents are lost. I am also afraid that some Windows System...

Posted on November 16, 2015December 31, 2015 L.A.M.P. Web & Network

Email Server Settings for ZOHOMail

Here is a notes for Email Server Settings. It is not just for Email server. It is mainly for DNS setting for Email server. The purpose of it is to prevent from your outgoing email into spam box. I have...

Posted on November 13, 2015December 31, 2015 Hardware

Upgrade Nexus 7 (2013) to Android 6

My Nexus 7 (2013) tablet got the OTA upgrade notice on November 10, 2015. It is a big update from Android 5 to Android 6, or from Lollipop to Marshmallow. It is said new Android 6.0 Marshmallow improved performance, battery...

Posted on November 13, 2015December 31, 2015 L.A.M.P.

Remove Old Kernels on CentOS

I know how to remove old Kernels on Ubuntu. But, I don’t know how to do it on CentOS. After googling, I found answer. Go through and see how many kernels here. Three kernels in machine. Delete, remove old kernels.

Posted on November 10, 2015December 31, 2015 Hardware

New 1TB WD10EZEX Hard Disk

To replace my broken hard drive, I did a lot of research. From Seagate to Western Digital, from 1TB to 3TB, from WD blue to WD green. At the last, I choose WD10EZEX again. Off course, price, stock, how fast...

Posted on November 7, 2015December 31, 2015 Hardware

A Broken Western Digital 1TB Hard Disk

It is a WD10EXEZ SATA,64MB Cache 1.0TB hard disk. I bought it in the end of 2012. Now it is almost three years. I found it is not working yesterday morning.  The Windows 7 can not found the hard drive...

Posted on November 2, 2015December 31, 2015 Hardware

Mi Power Bank 10400mAH

I have a Mi Power Bank 10400mAH. I got it three months ago, about $15. First, I like the large capacity. 10400mAH When I use it to charge my cellphone, it can do about 4 full charges. Per specs from...

Posted on November 1, 2015October 7, 2021 Hardware

Fix Acer AL1916W Monitor

I have a LCD monitor, Acer AL1916W. I can remember when I bought it. But I do believe it is more than six years. I have two more monitor. One is Acer 1716B in early 2006, and Acer X223W in...

Posted on October 26, 2015December 31, 2015 L.A.M.P. phpBB Mod & Tips

How to use Sphinx Search Engine on phpBB 3.1.6

This how-to is made on Centos6.7 64bit. It is a phpBB forum in Chinese with more than 680K posts. If I use phpBB native Fulltext or MySQL Fulltext search, the search tables are over 1.4GB. Too big. And it is...

Posted on October 19, 2015December 31, 2015 Hardware

Kindle Touch firmware upgrade to 5.3.7.3

Just upgrade my Kindle Touch to 5.3.7.3 by OTA. First turn on WIFI on settings. Then Wait, about 5 to 10 minutes. It will download the update firmware file to Kindle, which is about 116MB. Then follow the instruction below:...

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