Heavy Snow in Vancouver Jan. 2020
From 2020.01.12 to 2020.01.16. It is snowing everywhere in Greater Vancouver. My wife took a lot of pictures. There are some for sharing. More than 27 inches.
Another year
2019 is over. It is the 27th of the first month of 2020. I have not posted anything for more than one month. It is a very hard time for a lot of people. Christmas, New Year, Lunar New Year....
How to Digitize Your Most Important Paper Files
Are you looking for ways to preserve vital paperwork? Paper can only last for so many years, even when you preserve it well. This is one reason why people are digitizing their most important documents. If you read on, you’ll...
High CPU usage on Dell Inspiron 5570
It is in November 2019. There is a laptop, Dell Inspiron 5570. It is my mother in law’s laptop. Recently she found it is so slow and ask my help. I connected this laptop through Teamviewer. I checked the CPU...
Make the PHP support Microsoft Access MDB file on Ubuntu 18.04
The very first step is to prepare the Ubuntu server. I installed the Ubuntu 18.04 on a VM with 1CPU, 1024MB memory and 16GB storage room. After the installation. Start the Ubuntu server and ssh to it.
Non-Profit Organization in Canada
I am going to work within a non-profit organization in BC Canada. So I want to know more about it. What is a Non-Profit Corporation? A non-profit corporation is a legal entity separate from its members and directors formed for...
Migrating GitLab to another Server from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04
Because my old Gitlab is running on a Ubuntu 16.04 server. The latest LTS version of Ubuntu is already 18.04 for more than one year. I was thinking about to directly upgrade the server from 16.04 to 18.04. There are...
Upgrade my Kindle Paperwhite 7th Gen. to v5.12.2
My Kindle Paperwhite 7th Generation was upgraded to 5.11.1.1 early this year. Late, I upgrade the firmware to 5.11.2. Now it is another upgrade available online. Check the version before upgrading. I touched the settings and settings again,...
php script timeout on php7.2-fpm and Nginx Webserver
Here is the background. It is a php script that is accessed through a browser. Server: Ubuntu 18.04 Web server: Nginx 1.14 php: php7.2-fpm The script always stoped on 60 seconds. The Nginx error log is shown below: 2019/10/23...
Rosary Miracle Story
Vienna, Austria, September 12, 1955: After World War II, Austria was divided between four countries: America, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia, which was still communist. The section of Austria controlled by the communists was the richest and included the...
Classification of files and tips to recover them
There are literally hundreds of computer files and formats that exist. It becomes impossible to understand and remember all of them. Hence, we are going to look at a broad classification of files, understand the major file types and how...
Calibre 4.1 Release
It is only four days after the release fo Calibre 4.0. New features for Calibre 4.1 Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences) Viewer: Allow showing the ‘position in book’, as was displayed...
New in calibre 4.0
Welcome back, calibre users. It has been two years since calibre 3.0. This time has been spent mostly in making the calibre Content server ever more capable as well as migrating calibre itself from Qt WebKit to Qt WebEngine, because...
5 Essential Graphic Design Skills You Should Master
Maybe you’re a contract graphic designer doing small, one-off projects for local businesses. Or, an in-house professional responsible for overseeing all graphic creation in a large corporation. Regardless, you can always be improving your craft. Read on as we go...
How to Protect Your Smartphone from Online Threats
Every day, hundreds of people have their smartphone hacked, exposing important data like contacts and even credit card details to criminals that prey upon poorly protected phones. Whenever your phone connects to the internet, it is at risk from hacking...