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A case for Sprint

Sprint-Nextel has been an underdog among mobile phone providers. Maybe due to its such status, it has to try harder, and they have won me easily. I fulfilled my 2-year contract with AT&T Wireless a while ago, and it was well overdue to upgrade my…

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Screen Capture with Microsoft Expression Encoder

Start Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen Capture (optional) Modify settings to suit the specific needs. The "Other" tab has some interesting options. Capture the video of a specified part of a screen. Start Microsoft Expression Encoder, which is different from Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen Capture. Open…

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Wisdom of Jimmy Carter

Just War - or a Just War? Op-Ed by Jimmy Carter (2003-03-09) A Statement By President Carter: An Alternative To War (2003-01-31) On church and State (1978): "...A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble…

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Random Thoughts

There are four options to develop Rich Internet Applications: Java Applet, Flash, Silverlight, and HTML5. It will take a long time - many years - before HTML5 is widely supported. Java Applet is fading, what a pity! Adobe Flash is most widely supported among the options.

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Mount Madison, Adams, Jefferson Hike

This is a report of a hike to Mounts Madison, Adams, and Jefferson in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, USA. Date: 2008-04-20 Total distance: 13.5 miles (21.6 km) Total Time: 10 hours 48 minutes Start elevation: 1300 ft (397 m) Peaks: Mount Madison (5366…

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The degradation of Axis Communication

Axis Communication used to be among the best companies—best products among peers, best service, and nicest people. You could get an instant response from real, competent people when you had a technical issue. Unfortunately, those good old days are gone. I had a very simple…

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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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