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Most of the posts here were written originally many years ago but they were transferred to this new home in 2024. The dates are transfer dates.

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Mount Madison, Adams Hike

This is a relatively brief description of a hike to Mount Madison, Adams, in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, USA. Date: 2008-03-17 Total distance: 9.9 miles (15.8 km) Total Time: 8 hours Start elevation: 1300 ft (397 m) Peaks: Mount Madison (5366 ft, 1637…

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Mount Lafayette Hike

This is a relatively brief description of a very pleasant day hike to Mount Lafayette in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, USA. Date: 2008-02-23 Total distance: 8.4 miles (13.4 km) Total Time: 6 hours Start elevation: 1820 ft (555 m) Peaks: Little Haystack (4760…

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Dry River Revisit

This is a report of a hike to explore Dry River Wilderness where I got lost on November 3, 2007. Date: 2008-11-02 Total distance: 17.1 miles (27.5 km) Total Time: 9 hours 27 minutes Start elevation: 1900 ft (579 m) End elevation: 1900 ft (579…

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Web hosting

SoftSys Hosting has reliable services and their staff are competent, responsive. Their Windows VPS is very attractive in terms of cost. Its 3-core, 4 GB RAM and 80 GB SSD at the price of $40/m as of 2018-06-04 should be more than sufficient for most websites.

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Airbnb hosts

Bucharest Private rom with extra comfy bed. Mykolaiv Room in the House near Railway Station Odesa Modern sea view room Dubrovnik

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A2 Hosting

Modify domain registry to point name servers to: ns1.a2hosting.com (162.159.25.95) ns2.a2hosting.com (162.159.24.221) ns3.a2hosting.com (162.159.25.82) ns4.a2hosting.com (162.159.24.227) For example, for Dynu.com: Log in > Domain registrations > domain name > Manage Name Servers > Add the above servers. IMPORTANT: all DNS records (A records, MX records)…

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A2 Hosting disaster

A2 hosting already had poor uptime, and it reached a new level. Its entire Windows fleet was brought down on Tuesday (2018-04-23) morning, and the did not restore all the services until Friday. There must have been thousands, if not tens of thousands of businesses…

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Best States to live and do business

What is best depends on one's lifestyle and business. The case for living in NC: The case for living in TX: Austin has beautiful, peaceful, and safe towns surrounding it. Wimberley, 60km from Austin, has a lot of choices. Taylor, also 60km from Austin, has…

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Cross-Platform app development

One can divide apps into the following two categories: Apps with functions that can be essentially achieved by a website, such as apps for banks, restaurants, parks, museums, booking, etc. These apps can be developed with any of the existing cross-platform frameworks such as Uno,…

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Avoid Windows 11 SDK (10.0.26100)

Microsoft released this Windows 11 SDK (10.0.26100) with many bugs and backward compatibility issues. Most importantly, it lack the support for ARM devices, which are growing. If you install Windows 11 SDK (10.0.26100) and target your UWP app to Windows 11 24H2. everything will be…

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Chinese stock market trap

The Shanghai index first broke above 2,000 in July 2000 and almost tripled to 6,092.06 on Oct. 16, 2007. Now it is back to about 2,000. China has certainly made history by 600% GDP increase and zero stock market gain in 12 years. Even in…

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Multi-page Windows Phone Application

Unlike a desktop application, a smartphone app with its limited real estate does not have the luxury of menus, ribbons, tabs to choose different switch to different windows or pages. One may think switching to a new page is as simple as opening a new…

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Mobile device not shown on Windows 10

Mobile devices should be shown under This PC of Windows 10 when connected. If the beep can be heard, but the device is not shown under This PC, one can see a problem in Device Manager. There is a solution to this problem. 

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