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Last week, I received my new CPU, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G. It is used to replace the old Ryzen 5 2400G. It is about 50% to 100% performance improvements based on the different program comparisons. For example: Cinebench R23 (Single-core)...
It is almost one year since I start to use OpenWrt router OS. I have two installations in our house. One is on my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 router. The other one is a Virtual Machine or VM of my Dell R710...
[This post discusses the way to upgrade the BIOS on the Gigabyte B450M DS3H motherboard. Change the BIOS settings to enable TPM2.0 and try to make Windows 11 support it.] The computer I use is a desktop PC. Gigabyte B450M...
I used Gitlab CE for many years. It is running on a virtual machine with 4 CPUs and 10GB Ram, 64 GB Storage. Yesterday, when I tried to upgrade it from version 13.12.4 to the latest version 14.0.0. It always...
Yes. I just upgrade my Composer installation on my Windows 10 desktop PC. Not too hard. But also good to keep it updated. My PC is Windows 10 Pro, version 20H2, OS build 19042.746. I use git for windows as...
I used Calibre Ebook management for many years. Just noticed that it has a big version upgrade. It is v5 now. There is something new in Calibre 5.0. Highlighting Supporting in the calibre e-book viewer Python 3 The installation package...
My Gitlab CE instance is running on a VM at the Dell R710 server. I have not to look at it and upgrade it for a long time. Yesterday I SSH to this VM and run the apt update and...
A few days ago, my desktop promoted that one firmware needs to be updated. It is a Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD. Almost nine months ago, I did a speed test on this SSD. Now, after the update,...
It is my desktop PC‘s motherboard. Gigabyte B450M DS3H. This post focus on its BIOS. The original BIOS version shipped with the MB is F4. From my old post, you can see it. Before I upgrade it today, it...
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,...
While mechanical keyboards are obviously the perfect finishing touch to your PC setup, the CES 2019 event revealed some facts and new avenues to explore for both hobbyists and professionals. With announcements by all of the big players like Intel,...
I am using a Proxmox VE for a while. It is almost one month I start to use Proxmox VE 5.3-8. I noticed that Proxmox VE has newer version released. Now it is v5.4-4. I have not subscribe the license...
It is time to upgrade my desktop. The six years old computer. CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G CPU has 4 Cores, 8 Threads. GPU has 11 Cores Base clock: 3.6Ghz, Max Boost Clock: 3.9GHz Cache: L1 384KB, L2 2MB, L3...
There is a new, free software update available for your Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation). This update automatically downloads and installs on your Kindle Paperwhite when connected wirelessly; however, you can also manually download the software and transfer the update to...
Today, I received the email, regarding the life of Ubuntu 17.10. You will see it is end of life on July 19, 2018, means Today. If you are still using Ubuntu 17.10, you would better to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04....