Tech geek. Life geek.
Recently, I received a new network card. X520-10G-1S-X8. It is a 10G NIC Intel 82599EN Controller, SFP+, PCIe X8 network card. The brand is 10Gtek. I bought it on Tmall. The price is RMB152, = CA$30. I installed it on...
I bought a laser level on February 25, 2025. It is a Husky 65FT. Green Beam Self-leveling Cross Line Laser Level. I checked the price today. I found the price has increased from $59.98 to $79.98. Ok. The actual purpose...
The smoke alarm was beeping every 30 seconds in my hallway on the second floor of my home on May 10th. It means it was broken. I took it down and checked the body. I have a date on it,...
I bought a bathroom fan at Costco Warehouse at a discounted price. Dewstop Bathroom Fan and Switch After installation, it is so quiet that I can barely hear it. The steps are simple. The work is not easy for me....
I bought a Kobo Elipsa 2E last week, April 15. After three days, the Amazon delivery guy handed over the box to me. Kobo Elipsa 2E I bought it on Amazon.ca. $499.99 plus tax, the total is $559.99. Features of...
UPDATE 1: The DoS attack is going on. I will report it every day here. Until 2025/4/9 11:09 PM, 47,085,003 bad requests from China in the past few days. UPDATE 2: April 10, 2025, the spammer stopped attacking for a...
Today, I received an email from a website monitoring service. It said my site was down. 1) The very first step is to try the website. The browser can not open it. 2) I sign in to the PVE, and...
I am trying to download the network interface card driver manually. It is Realtek PCIe GBE Family controller. After a Google search, I landed on the official download list. This software supports a lot of Realtek products. From GBE or...
I have a VM that hosts a few websites there. Today, I ran the mysqltuner.pl script to check the performance and see if there is any recommondation. I know I have a database with over 900M data. There are 67...
Here is my Contabo VPS. I upgraded it from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04. So, let us see the difference before and after. In the Ubuntu 22.04
Here is my new comparison of DigitalOcean VPS. Shared CPU Basic plan. I can choose from Regular CPU to Premium Intel CPU. I have a Five-year-old Regular CPU the smallest plan, $6 monthly. Then I created a new VPS, Premium...
The day before yesterday, the Telus technician came to my home, a townhouse. He installed the PureFibre Internet connection. In the utility room in a separate building, he installed a converter, a Fibre cable plugged into it, and an RJ11...
About half a year ago, I made a project of AQI device with Raspberry Pi Pico W and ENS160+AHT21 chips. I put them on a block of 2X4 wood. Now I have a chance to make a box with my...
My wife’s computer is about nine years old. I got the motherboard and CPU in San Francisco when my family was with my parents-in-law. It is an Intel i5 6500 and an Asus H110M-C. I know it has been over...
This afternoon, I found my site was not accessible when I tried it. So I went to the Webmin panel. It loaded, but with a warning, disk space is running out. It is kind of urgent. All websites on this...