Tech geek. Life geek.
It is my daughter, Gloria’s desktop. I bought it two years ago on Costco.ca. Cost $900 plus tax. The specs of it were a little bit different from what was on Acer’s official website. Windows 10 Home Intel Core i5...
I have a MediaWiki installation in my Home Lab. It is for my own internal purpose. There are many sensitive information. So there is no way to access it from the Internet. The MediaWiki installation was 1.39.2. To upgrade the...
It is time to check the BIOS version of my PC. I do regular maintenance for a few months. The upgrade procedure is the same as before. The motherboard is Asus PRIME B450M-A II. The version of BIOS on the...
I saw the news of the release of Proxmox VE 8. It is a big version upgrade and a lot of changes to the system. I have the PVE running in my HomeLab. Today is a great day, Sunday, a...
My Xbox One S game console is over five years. Since last winter, I sometimes get stuck when I play the game. The Xbox One S replaced the Xbox 360 which was 6 years old. So I am thinking about...
I have a few TP-Link devices running in my home. One is the network switch, TL-SG3210XHP M2, and a pair of AP, Deco 6 X90. Today when I turn on my PC, there is no Internet connection. So I restarted...
If you saw my previous post about my NAS which is powered by Ubuntu 22.04LTS, you should know that I have an Emby server running on the NAS system. It is time to upgrade it to the latest version, or...
Early last December, php8.2.0 was released. I did not install it at the first available. I like to wait for the first wave of bugs to be fixed. Now it is time to upgrade my Web Server’s php engine. Before...
I have the TP-link TX401 10Gbe Rj45 ethernet adapter. Now I tried to upgrade its firmware. First of all, I need to know which chipset is it using. After a few Google searches, I find the chipset it uses is...
I bought an SSD, or an NVMe SSD to upgrade the Dell laptop. I posted a few days ago about how to change the thermal paste on this Dell Inspiron 15 laptop. I replaced the original WD WD10SPZX 1TB 2.5″...
Emby server is installed on my NAS. You know, my NAS is about 6 years old and is powered by a U-NAS server system. Right now it is version 4.0.6. There are not many things running on it. I used...
It is a big upgrade for my router. There are four more versions between 22.1.9 and 22.7.3, which are 22.7 , 22.7.1 and 22.7.2. And also I received the notice of the end of life on 22.1.10. So, I make...
My PC has a network card or a Realtek 2.5GbE Network card. For a long time, I am using the network driver provided by Microsoft, which is from Windows 11. Recently, I think I can try the Realteck official driver,...
It is time to upgrade my desktop PC motherboard. it is Asus PRIME B450M-A II. The bios running on the board is v 3604, which I upgraded in March 2022. How to upgrade the ASUS motherboard BIOS? 1. Download the...
My soft router is running by pfSense on the Awow AK34. The version is 2.5.2. I upgraded it to 2.6.0 this morning. There are a bunch of new features, bug fixes, security issues, and improvements for this new release. Here...