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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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Trip to Romania, Ukraine, Moldova in March 2023

20:05 Boston Logan Airport Terminal E ✈️ Lufthansa, Flight 425 9:25 Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport 10:55 Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport ✈️ 13:35 Cluj-Napoca Airport (luggage missing) 16:00 Bruno Apartment 3:35 Cluj-Napoca Train Station 🚆 8:30 Viseului Train Station 11:30 Viseului Train Station 🚆 12:25…

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Tidbits of upgrading to Visual Studio 2012

If a project requires IIS to run, the IIS needs to be enabled for completing its imigration. VS2012 comes with Silverlight Toolkit managed by NeGet, but Silverlight SDK 5 needs to be installed to run any Silverlight projects. When upgrading .Net projects to .Net 4.5,…

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SATA hot swap

SATA drive hot swap is most likely doable on a PC. Unlike USB device, it may require a device scan (Device Manager > Scan for hardware change) to detect a newly plugged device.

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Migrate a primary hard drive to a larger one

A simple disk image results in the extra space of the larger HD unallocated. A new partition could be created to use the unallocated space, but the crammed primary partition can be a severe bottleneck of the computer performance. Windows Disk Management (Computer Management >…

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Windows Easy Transfer

Windows Easy Transfer (WET) is a nice tool for migrating from one computer to another one. It does not transfer installed applications, but it transfer their settings and user documents. For example, IE will have all the favorites, short cuts and other settings on the target computer with WET. This can save a lot of time. It has three methods of transferring: an Easy Transfer cable, a network and an external hard disk. The first needs to be purchased, so it is not a good choice if one only needs to run WET once in a while.The second one is handy if it works. I have tried to use it many times under different circumstances, and it never worked. The 3rd one is the most robust option. WET does not handle user folder redirection well. For example, one may use a small SSD to store the OS and all the programs, and redirect use data folders to a hard drive. WET does not transfer such redirection, so it is very important to set up folder directions before using WET.

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Photo editors

There are so many photo editing programs that it is tough to choose one that meets the following subjective requirements: Conclusion: FastStone for frequent photo editing. Photoshop Elements for occasional intensive editing of a small number of photos. One way of editing photos one by…

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Windows Activation error 0xC004F211

Windows Activation error 0xC004F211 can happen after upgrading the hardware of a computer (e.g., CPU, motherboard): One should click the button Troubleshoot to resolve this. The following will show up: Don't worry. Click "I changed hardware on this device recently" at the bottom. You will…

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Computer Configuration and Performance

The performance reported by Windows Experience Index: CPUScore : 7.7 D3DScore : 5.2 DiskScore : 7 GraphicsScore : 5.5 MemoryScore : 7.7 TimeTaken : MostRecentAssessment WinSATAssessmentState : 1 WinSPRLevel : 5.2 A computer configuration reported by Belarc: Additional information to the report generated by Blarc:…

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Use UVCCamera Library for Android

Clone UVCCamera library. Make modifications if necessary. Run Gradle assembleRelease tasks to build libuvccamera-release.aar and usbCameraCommon-release.aar Clone libcommon. Make modifications if necessary. Run Grade assembleRelease task to build common-release.aar In Android app project, create directory libs under directory app. Add libuvccamera-release.aar, usbCameraCommon-release.aar and common-release.aar to…

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