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I am trying to download the network interface card driver manually. It is Realtek PCIe GBE Family controller. After a Google search, I landed on the official download list. This software supports a lot of Realtek products. From GBE or...
I have a VM that hosts a few websites there. Today, I ran the mysqltuner.pl script to check the performance and see if there is any recommondation. I know I have a database with over 900M data. There are 67...
Here is my Contabo VPS. I upgraded it from Ubuntu 22.04 to Ubuntu 24.04. So, let us see the difference before and after. In the Ubuntu 22.04
Here is my new comparison of DigitalOcean VPS. Shared CPU Basic plan. I can choose from Regular CPU to Premium Intel CPU. I have a Five-year-old Regular CPU the smallest plan, $6 monthly. Then I created a new VPS, Premium...
The day before yesterday, the Telus technician came to my home, a townhouse. He installed the PureFibre Internet connection. In the utility room in a separate building, he installed a converter, a Fibre cable plugged into it, and an RJ11...
About half a year ago, I made a project of AQI device with Raspberry Pi Pico W and ENS160+AHT21 chips. I put them on a block of 2X4 wood. Now I have a chance to make a box with my...
My wife’s computer is about nine years old. I got the motherboard and CPU in San Francisco when my family was with my parents-in-law. It is an Intel i5 6500 and an Asus H110M-C. I know it has been over...
This afternoon, I found my site was not accessible when I tried it. So I went to the Webmin panel. It loaded, but with a warning, disk space is running out. It is kind of urgent. All websites on this...
I changed the battery of the Mi A1 cellphone last week. The battery was so bad. It needs a charge even if I just used it for one or two hours as a hot spot. I bought the battery from...
I have a Kindle Touch 4th generation. It is 12 years old. Working but the battery is only a few hours in standby mode. I bought a replacement battery on Tmall.com. Chinese Yuan 36. The very first step is to...
I want to introduce a software, KillDisk. I used it to wipe out or erase an HDD. I have an HDD with a Smart Warning. Western Digital WD Caviar Green. WD20EARS, 2.0TB SATA/64MB Cache. Product of Thailand Date: 19, Jul...
I just upgraded one Ubuntu server from 22.04 to 24.04. Then I did a php engine upgrade from 8.2.28 to 8.3.13. Both php are in php-fpm mode. Opcache JIT enabled. Here are some php performance benchmark tests on the server....
Today, I upgraded my Gitlab CE install OS from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 using the distro upgrade. Before upgrading, I made a full backup of the VM. When the OS upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04, I added the two repositions back...
Here I just upgraded my NAS from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04. I check the services running on the NAS. I found Transmission Daemon is not active. I reboot the Ubuntu server. Transmission Web UI is live for a while, then...
I bought the Btootos Wireless Earbuds in Nov. 2023. Almost one year now. I used it about once a week—not very often. So, when I found it was a problem, it was June 2024. The problem is that the right...