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Saturday, April 20, 2024

1.1.1.1 is a public DNS resolver operated by Cloudflare that offers a fast and private way to browse the Internet.

 1.1.1.1 is a public DNS resolver operated by Cloudflare that offers a fast and private way to browse the Internet.

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

first cousins once removed

 According to Wu, a former financial journalist who now focuses on researching corporate families, Huang is Su’s “biao jiu,” in Mandarin Chinese. In Western terms, they are first cousins once removed, which refers to cousins separated by a generation, she told CNN.

-- src CNN

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

recover email from exchange online using outlook

 Steps to recover email items that were permanently deleted

  1. Click on the Deleted Items folder in the Navigation Pane.
  2. Click the link to Recover items deleted from this folder in the message pane.
  3. The Recoverable items list will appear, containing all email items deleted within the last 30 days.


Saturday, March 23, 2024

what a waste of money , I bought a 32 dollar rain coat from Kmart

 annoyingly I got soaked today while walking in a drizzle

quite a disappointment that the rain coat stopped working after 1.5 years

quite a cheap product


Monday, March 11, 2024

metered wifi network on notebook caused vpn / chrome browsing problems

 a client was on holiday in a remote park, texted me that she could not access the office PC

eventually found out the mobile phone wifi connection was set as metered wifi, used up specified data etc

remove the data limit ~~~ disable the metered network setting, all okay dokey



Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Iphone 10 vs Iphone 8 testing the internet speed at a client site, speedtest

 starlink x internet

unifi U6-LR

interesting thing is that on my iPhone 8 is speed is 25/6 mbps

however, on my customer's iPhone 10 the speed is 48 / 7 mbps

also on customer's smart TV , the speed test is 49 / 21 mbps


looks like the client side matters for internet speedtest