New 1TB WD10EZEX Hard Disk
To replace my broken hard drive, I did a lot of research. From Seagate to Western Digital, from 1TB to 3TB, from WD blue to WD green. At the last, I choose WD10EZEX again. Off course, price, stock, how fast...
A Broken Western Digital 1TB Hard Disk
It is a WD10EXEZ SATA,64MB Cache 1.0TB hard disk. I bought it in the end of 2012. Now it is almost three years. I found it is not working yesterday morning. The Windows 7 can not found the hard drive...
Mi Power Bank 10400mAH
I have a Mi Power Bank 10400mAH. I got it three months ago, about $15. First, I like the large capacity. 10400mAH When I use it to charge my cellphone, it can do about 4 full charges. Per specs from...
Fix Acer AL1916W Monitor
I have a LCD monitor, Acer AL1916W. I can remember when I bought it. But I do believe it is more than six years. I have two more monitor. One is Acer 1716B in early 2006, and Acer X223W in...
How to use Sphinx Search Engine on phpBB 3.1.6
This how-to is made on Centos6.7 64bit. It is a phpBB forum in Chinese with more than 680K posts. If I use phpBB native Fulltext or MySQL Fulltext search, the search tables are over 1.4GB. Too big. And it is...
Kindle Touch firmware upgrade to 5.3.7.3
Just upgrade my Kindle Touch to 5.3.7.3 by OTA. First turn on WIFI on settings. Then Wait, about 5 to 10 minutes. It will download the update firmware file to Kindle, which is about 116MB. Then follow the instruction below:...
Dirty Hack: Add CDN support into phpBB 3.1.6
It works for phpBB 3.1.x, not just phpBB 3.1.6. For a national forum or global forum, it is a must to have a CDN support. The way I used is not a formal extension or plugin. It is a hack,...
OTA update on Nexus 7 2013 Wifi version
Just received an OTA update and I pressed the install without hesitate. But it is only another small security update for Android 5.1.1. From LMY48M to LMY48T. Baded on the post on xda developers forum, Android 6, Marshmallow update is...
LFTP Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted
It is a error when I tried to connect an FTP server by LFTP tool. I did a search on Google and find the answer. There is self signed certificates which is used by TLS on a ftp connection. It...
How to Solve the Virtualbox Bridged Adapter Problem
It is a problem I met since Virtualbox 5.0.4. I can not make the guest OS communicate with Internet or Host, even the IP address is correct. It is similar to the Virtualbox bug of bridged connection, which is fixed...
Cool Speakers Overhead
When you take your Polaris UTV out for a ride, it’s all about the experience. A side by side allows you to bring someone else with you along for every adventure as you take on tough terrain, the elements, and...
Tools to check your SSL Installation
I have tried some tools to diagnose my SSL certificate installation. Some related to correct certificate, and more on certificate chain issues. SSL Certificates are trusted from its parent, or issued by its high lever certificate. It looks like a...
Certificate Installation: NGINX with Comodo SSL
Here is the guide to show you how to install the Comodo SSL certificate in Nginx. Order Comodo Certificate. And received the Certificate files. I don’t discuss how to get it, where to get it. It is another topic. You...
Linux Desktop – LXDE
There are some popular desktops in Linux Environments. KDE – a Graphical desktop that is similar to the Microsoft Windows Xfc – a lightweight but fully functional graphical desktop Gnome – a historically popular desktop that is the default desktop...
One more update of Android 5.1.1 on Nexus 7 (2013)
Today, my Nexus 7 device got another OTA update of system. The update size is 13.8MB per below screen. It said that this update will improve stability, increase security, and fix bugs. Before update, the system > About Tablet screen...