Power Consumption of Server Dell R710
I am using Dell R710 for more than one year. Based on the other user’s posts, the idle power consumption is 150W, peak power consumption is 270W. Here is my setup. Dell R710 CPU: 2 x intel Xeon E5620 @...
Start to use Email Encryption with OpenPGP
From today, I start to use OpenPGP to encrypt and sign my email. Here are my public keys Note: Updated on 2023.12 public-key Feel free to download it and add it to your email client software. I am using Thunderbird...
Sony MDR-ZX100 Headphones
I have Sony headphones for many years. Let me think about it. More than ten years. The quality of the sound is good enough for me, my ear, and my hearing ability. Actually, when the headphones or earbuds meet a...
The Difference Between M1MAX and М1 on MacBooks
For a while now, the tech world has lived on rumors and speculations about the new changes in Mac production. The new processors’ generation was coming up, and we all had high hopes for it. Well, just a few days...
Build the best PC from the view of PC Gamer
Recently, I read the PC Gamer magazine in our local library. PC Gamer Nov 2021 issue. On the last few pages of the magazine, there are three builds of PC for game players. Let me put it here. Maybe many...
Kaiweets Digital Multimeter TRMS 6000 Counts HT118A
I bought a new digital multimeter from Amazon.ca. It is used to replace my very old digital multimeter, HDM350. HDM350 I can only measure DC, AC Voltage, and current. And resistance. That’s all. I used it for more than twenty...
Got a pair of new DDR4 3200MHz RAM
I ordered a pair of new DDR4 RAM from Amazon.ca. The price is OK for me. The most important is I want to increase the memory of my PC from 16GB to 32GB. At the same time, I got the...
Repair my Desktopf with a NEW Motherboard: ASUS Prime B450M-A II
My desktop can not boot up since last Friday. I did a BIOS upgrade. Then I click restart after successfully flash the new BIOS file into the Gigabyte B450M DS3H motherboard. It is the last time the PC show the...
Can not start Win32diskimager on Windows 10
Update: It is also solve the problem on Windows 11. I am trying to burn an ISO file into a USB disk for installation. Most of the time, I am using Win32DiskImager to do the job. But today, I can...
Get a new pair of Monitors: HP 24f – 23.8-inch IPS LED Monitor Bundle
Early this month, I bought dual monitors from the Costco warehouse. The price is above $300 with TAX. HP brand, 23.8-inch Diagonal IPS, Full HD, Ultra-slim Monitor. I used to use two monitors. One is 21-inch, the other one is...
Testing of New Oracle ARM VPS
I created a new VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape VPS on Oracle Cloud. It is just a FREE VPS. ARM VPS: 3 ocpu 20 GB RAM 47 GB storage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers Ampere Altra processors and the industry’s first 80-core Arm...
Issue ECC SSL Certificates
When I need SSL certificates on my website, I purchase certificates from GoGetSSL.com. Most of my SSL certificates are Sectigo Positive SSL, previously called Comodo. It is a very good deal. $7.90 for two years. Back to my topic today,...
Upgrade OpenWrt Router to the latest firmware
It is almost one year since I start to use OpenWrt router OS. I have two installations in our house. One is on my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 router. The other one is a Virtual Machine or VM of my Dell R710...
Upgrade BIOS and change the settings
[This post discusses the way to upgrade the BIOS on the Gigabyte B450M DS3H motherboard. Change the BIOS settings to enable TPM2.0 and try to make Windows 11 support it.] The computer I use is a desktop PC. Gigabyte B450M...
Upgrade Gitlab CE from 13.12.4 to 14.0.0
I used Gitlab CE for many years. It is running on a virtual machine with 4 CPUs and 10GB Ram, 64 GB Storage. Yesterday, when I tried to upgrade it from version 13.12.4 to the latest version 14.0.0. It always...