Got an LG Q6 from Fido Store
Last weekend, I went to the Fido store at the Brentwood town center. My old cellphone is Jianguo YQ601. I used almost two years. Now I feel the old one is too slow and its battery can only run 4...
How to get a perfect SSL Labs score
It is easy to get an A+ on your website. But it is a little bit hard to make a 4 parts, Certificate, Protocol Support, Key Exchange, and Cipher Strength, to be 100%. Most of time, I got A+ rating...
NES Classic Game Console
I saw the Nintendo announced that NES Classic Edition will return to stores on June 29. When it is first launched in November 2016, I think it is a good idea to have one. I can tell my kids, how...
Upgrade my Kindle Paperwhite 7th
There is a new, free software update available for your Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation). This update automatically downloads and installs on your Kindle Paperwhite when connected wirelessly; however, you can also manually download the software and transfer the update to...
4 Ways You Can Simplify How You Check-in Visitors To Your Premises
Visitor Access Management is a tricky subject for security experts. This is especially true for secure locations such as hospitals, schools, and office buildings. Visitor management has two sides to it – location security and visitor hospitality. Neither do you...
How to Edit PDF Files with Movavi PDF Editor
Finding a reliable PDF editor is often a lot more difficult than most people realize as there aren’t that many options out there. Most of the online or free editors that are available have lots of limitations, and the more...
Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) End of Life reached on July 19 2018
Today, I received the email, regarding the life of Ubuntu 17.10. You will see it is end of life on July 19, 2018, means Today. If you are still using Ubuntu 17.10, you would better to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04....
Upgrade D-Link DIR-880L Firmware
I have my D-Link DIR-880L router for almost one and half years. I flashed the firmware to use DD-WRT one. Later I flashed back to D-Link firmware. The latest version is 1.08 on D-Link Canadian website. I upgraded it long...
Access Webmin with IPv6 address
I tried a IPv6 only VPS. It has no IP v4 address. It is always error connection when I tried to use an IP v6 to connect it. Here is some new knowledge for me. Use a pair [] around...
Google Penguin and Link Building for Small Businesses: 4 Tips
When Google Penguin 4.0 was released in October of 2016, one of its main goals was to target and reduce the rank for sites that were found to have poor links. While the Internet search engine giant’s intention was to...
php Benchmark test on php 7.2
Now it is a php 7.2. Included in the Ubuntu 18.04. My site is running on this platform. I also want to try to run the php Benchmark test, and see how fast it is. -------------------------------------- | PHP BENCHMARK...
Some changes on VPS
My site is moved to another VPS, but still with Linode. This time, it is at Fremont, CA. As I mentioned in my last post, the CPU is E5-2697 v4. There is a few changes on the default VPS. Turn...
New CPU model of Linode Fremont
Recently I placed an order of a new VPS at Linode. It has a new CPU type. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz, 1 cores Another VPS I bought with Linode from July 2017, has Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680...
Small PHP 7.2 Compatibility Bug of W3 Total Cache
When I upgrade my php to php 7.2, I saw a lot of error log in the log file. [error] 1502#1502: *625 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP message: PHP Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that...
Color Scheme for the command line of bash
When I install the Ubuntu server and ssh to the server, the default shell is bash. It looks like below. I prefer to have a colorful terminal window. So I goole it and find the solution: open ~/.bashrc in an...