Tech geek. Life geek.
I visited the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Catholic Church, on Feb, 24. Based on the introduction of the staff, San Francisco is named after St. Francis of Assisi. I walked there from the China Town. It is...
Hey, when I say you can deploy Ubuntu 24.04lts on the most mainstream VPS providers, it means someone like DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, etc. Ubuntu 24.04 Lts is just released in five days. Let’s sign in to my accounts and have...
Last month, Gloria, my daughter told me that the bathroom floor is so wet. I checked a few times after showering. I thought it was because of the water splashing. I didn’t find the leaking. So the next task is...
I have an installation of the Gitlab CE version on the virtual machine. It is running on the Host Proxmox VE. Normally I do the update/upgrade through the Webmin interface. I knew that Gitlab has very active development. They may...
Ubuntu is the only Linux distribution I am using right now. I prefer to use LTS version. LTS means long-term support version. It is released every two years. The last version is Ubuntu 22.04LTS. The next one is Ubuntu 24.04LTS....
Just upgrade all my VPS Webmin installations. From 2.105 to v2.110. Look at the latest release notes. Add an API to check if the system is running or approaching its end of life (EOL) Add support for systemd-timesyncd...
The newly added user’s password is not saved in Ubuntu 22.04lts. Only the password hash is stored in /etc/shadow. Here is an example: The string is separated by colon symbols. The user name is: userabc The whole password part is:...
When I left San Francisco on Mar 18, I saw some cute stuff at the Airport. Something a lot of young people have never seen in their life. TV Remote Control These controls have physical buttons or switches. They are...
The cloud can often still feel like a brand-new technology, which can make it all the more confusing to see how heavily implemented it is into every aspect of the internet. There are often improvements to typical online functions, such...
I bought a UGREEN SSD Enclosure, which supports M.2 NVMe SSD, including M and B&M Keys, size range 2230/2242/2260/2280. On Amazon.com I paid $24.99 plus tax. Now it is $17.99.
About PHP, this question has been in my draft for a long time. I am going to finish it. What is the main difference between php.ini and phprc? Here is one quick way to get the answer, ChatGPT. I asked...
Today, I upgraded a few programs on the server. Including Mastodon, phpBB extentions, and Chevereto. The first one is to upgrade Mastodon. My social media platform. I am using it as a tree hole. Of course, I accept new users...
I just finished the upgrades of my Mastodon instance. I saw this notice a few days ago. I just have no time to do it. I flew to San Francisco last week. To look after my father-in-law. He received surgery...
Our Spring Festival is one of the important holidays. We are Chinese, Asia, and Human Beings on Earth. Spring Festival is the traditional holiday. So, the feast is the key to it. Let me post the dishes of our family....
I just knew there was a new image format, AVIF, when I saved a picture from the Homedepot website. I did a very brief research and found it is a format based on the AV1 video format. The AVIF generally...