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I am going to work within a non-profit organization in BC Canada. So I want to know more about it. What is a Non-Profit Corporation? A non-profit corporation is a legal entity separate from its members and directors formed for...
Because my old Gitlab is running on a Ubuntu 16.04 server. The latest LTS version of Ubuntu is already 18.04 for more than one year. I was thinking about to directly upgrade the server from 16.04 to 18.04. There are...
My Kindle Paperwhite 7th Generation was upgraded to 5.11.1.1 early this year. Late, I upgrade the firmware to 5.11.2. Now it is another upgrade available online. Check the version before upgrading. I touched the settings and settings again,...
Here is the background. It is a php script that is accessed through a browser. Server: Ubuntu 18.04 Web server: Nginx 1.14 php: php7.2-fpm The script always stoped on 60 seconds. The Nginx error log is shown below: 2019/10/23...
Vienna, Austria, September 12, 1955: After World War II, Austria was divided between four countries: America, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia, which was still communist. The section of Austria controlled by the communists was the richest and included the...
There are literally hundreds of computer files and formats that exist. It becomes impossible to understand and remember all of them. Hence, we are going to look at a broad classification of files, understand the major file types and how...
It is only four days after the release fo Calibre 4.0. New features for Calibre 4.1 Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences) Viewer: Allow showing the ‘position in book’, as was displayed...
Welcome back, calibre users. It has been two years since calibre 3.0. This time has been spent mostly in making the calibre Content server ever more capable as well as migrating calibre itself from Qt WebKit to Qt WebEngine, because...
Maybe you’re a contract graphic designer doing small, one-off projects for local businesses. Or, an in-house professional responsible for overseeing all graphic creation in a large corporation. Regardless, you can always be improving your craft. Read on as we go...
Every day, hundreds of people have their smartphone hacked, exposing important data like contacts and even credit card details to criminals that prey upon poorly protected phones. Whenever your phone connects to the internet, it is at risk from hacking...
Received the email from Cloudflare. The Cloudflare edge supports the draft version of the IETF QUIC and HTTP/3 standards. You can read more about HTTP/3 (including how to configure clients like Google Chrome and curl to use it) on...
Dreamweaver 2019 does not connect to SFTP server and you see the “Failed to Read the contents of XML Resource: IDD_SSH_KEY_CHANGE_DIALOG” error. 1) Close the Dreamweaver application. 2) Go to the following location: Windows: C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC xxxx\en_US\Configuration macOS: ~/Library/Application...
My PC case has a front panel. Including two USB 2.0 ports, one MIC port, and one earphone port. It is not enough. It is not fast enough. The motherboard Gigabyte B450M DS3H has F_USB30 and F_USB1 and F_USB2. I...
I bought this set-top-box three years ago. It is Mi Box 3, enhanced edition. It cost me RMB399. Free shipping to my Chinese address. White color looks nice. Moden design. Not black anymore. Here is the specification. Rom: 8GB eMMC...
It is a new Bluetooth adapter which supports Bluetooth v4.0. Let’s have a look at the package first. Oh, no. I still want to see the difference between Bluetooth 4.0 and its previous generation, such as v3.0, etc. The specification...