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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…

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…

Review of book Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters It is hard to believe that a book published almost 100 years ago is still very relevant and practically useful today. It is very, very dense yet still very readable. Throughout…

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…

Receiving calls and getting text messages with a registered number is necessary all the time nowadays. For example, many two-step log-in sends a code to a phone number. This means one needs his domestic phone number active on a phone even when he travels internationally.

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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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)…

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…

I started filing 1020S in February 2024 with H&R Block Business 2024. It kept crashing upon opening an existing return. I thought that H&R would fix this bug over time. I waited until September to try it again. It got no better. This was my…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

This book is excellent in every sense – scope, depth, readability… It is an excellent survey for anyone who does not closely track the development of all the web app related technologies. It is broad and accurate enough for someone to make a decision regarding…

With Cordova in Visual Studio, one can develop an app targeting Windows 10 (unitfied Windows OS for PCs and mobile devices), Android and iOS. The most important thing for one to keep in mind when developing such type of apps is they are hosted apps.

1. Some hosting service provider does not provide DNS name server to point to your VPS, so a custom DNS needs to be set up . Add a Forward Lookup Zone for the domain (e.g. foo.com). Go to the domain’s registrar’s website to configure it to…

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 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.