Google Analytics Report of Blog
It is a report from Google Analytics of this Blog. There are 1,493 sessions in the last thirty days. Page / Session is 1.39.
Benchmark Report of 4GB Servermania VPS with SSD Cached
The VPS with SSD cached is much faster than normal HDD. Servermania had a email to me last week. It said there is a upgrade of the hardware on the host of my VPS. From normal HDD storage to SSD...
More Screen shots from HDEV
HDEV – View 1 HDEV – View 2
Look at our Home from Space – The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
This is an amazing tool for any normal people like me. I can watch the real time earth view from the out space. Real Time Black Scenes = Night side of the Earth; Gray Scenes = Switching to the next...
Natural Gas rate increases in BC Lower Mainland
Here is a notice from FortisBC, the natural gas provider in BC. The title of the sheet is Natural gas rate changes. With a chart, showing 53% decrease in six years. But when I have a closer look at the...
How to know the disk usage of your VPS
It is a simple task and a very common task for a VPS user. You have a VPS, and want to know the disk usage of your data and system. You are also want to know which folder takes the...
Stop using Varnish Cache Server for the time being
I just disabled Varnish Server on this VPS. The varnish server version is v3.0.5. The performance on my blog is improved, but not that much. And also sometimes it return 503 error. There are a lot of other Varnish user...
How to manage MariaDB in Webmin
It is easy to use Webmin to manage VPS, including MySQL server. But it is not working with MariaDB default. The webmin MySQL server shows error as below: It can not find the path of command to start and stop...
Still using MovableType
I said Goodbye to MovableType almost six months ago. And transfer almost all my blogs from MovableType to WordPress. I said “almost”, because there is still one powered by MovableType 5.2. To keep having a MovableType installation as a blog...
Costco Michelin Defender Tire
It is time to change my snow tires to all-season tires. My old, original all-season tires are almost 9 years old. So I choose to buy a new set of four tires. As a Costco member, I went to Costco...
I have G.E.R.D.
Last week, I saw the doctor Janzen. I described my problem, and he gave me a piece of paper. There are four letter, G.E.R.D. He said I may have this. And at the same time, he gave me two bottles...
XiaoMi Mi Box
It is my first Set-Top-Box from mainland China. I ordered it from the official site of Xiaomi. The price is CNY299.00, including tax, shipping and handling. It is sent to my parents’ home, then my mom brought it when she...
Upgrade to Calibre 1.33 from 1.27
New Features of 1.33 Edit book: Add a tool to check spellings, access it via Tools->Check spelling The calibre book editor now has builtin spellcheck. You can install new dictionaries via Preferences->Editor->Manage spelling dictionaries. It comes with builtin dictionaries for...
Cloud Storage or Online Archiving places
I am thinking about put my digital pictures archives in cloud. It will be my second backup for these digital life records. The first backup is on my NAS at home. The original one is on my Desktop. I need...
Personal Ringtone from my daughter
Lunch time, we all sit and eat. Gloria, my younger daughter, have an idea with her sister, Grace. Make a personal ringtone for Mom. Because they feel the original ringtone is so bad, neither other built-in ringtones. So here...