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It is Autumn now. The temperature is under 15°C during the daytime, under 10°C at nighttime. So it is time to turn on the furnace because my house is heated by a forced-air heating system. I turned the thermostat to...
There are a lot of guidelines online to show you how to configure the Network Interface. Here is my own records for Ubuntu 20.04. The configuration file of Network interface is /etc/network/interfaces The sample of Static IP config on eth0...
I have a main (primary) router with the Internet connection in the living room. And I have two devices in the basement. How I make them connect to the Internet is a problem. Here I use secondary router wireless connect...
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...
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...
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...
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...
After the installation of MySQL server or MariaDB on Ubuntu, I would like to use phpMyAdmin or Adminer to access the MySQL server. But the first time the error comes like below. Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/1698): Access...
It said: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “windows” in “”. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. My current Windows 10 is version 1703, OS build 15063.674. I knew...
I have the .bashrc file, but it is not loading when I connect my VPS through SSH. The content of .bashrc looks like below: It provides a colorful terminal look. How to fix the problem of .bashrc not loading?
Afte last post, my php-fpm support the dbase database file now. Here is an example php script. $db = dbase_open('../db/clients.dbf',0); if ($db){ $record_numbers = dbase_numrecords($db); for ($i = 1; $i <= $record_numbers; $i++) { $row = dbase_get_record_with_names($db, $i); if (...
I followed the instruction mostly based on mote0230 github. Please be noticed that updating (and probably inserting) with arrays that contain named indexes, is not working. For my project, it is OK. I just need to read the data from...
When I re-install iTunes on my Windows 10, after reset my PC, I got the error as below: iTunes Installation error: “Microsoft VC80.CRT.TYPE=”win 32″.version=8.0.50727.6195″.publicKeyToken=’1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b”.processorArchitecture “x86″”.Please refer to help and support for more information. HRESULT:0X800700C1 It annoied my half an hour...
Just a few days ago, my OBi110 device does not work with my Google Voice. I can not dial out, and no incoming call, until today, I fixed it. Sometimes it said some configuration error. I sign in my OBiTalk...
It is an error when I tried to play my Age of Empires III game in Windows 10. I have the game which is installed on Steam platform. It is an old game, which is released 11 years ago, or...