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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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.
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...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 staff when you had a technical issue. Unfortunately, those good old days are gone. I had a very simple…
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I feel DPP4 is more than sufficient for my amateur level of photography. I use Canon R7 with Canon's RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM lens to take bird pictures. Steps to edit a group of similar photos:
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters (Dover Crafts: Building & Construction)
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…
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...How to make domestic calls in a foreign country without an international plan
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.
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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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Bucharest Private rom with extra comfy bed. Mykolaiv Room in the House near Railway Station Odesa Modern sea view room Dubrovnik
Continue reading...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 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…
Continue reading...Unbelievable poor quality of H&R Block software
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…
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...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,…
Continue reading...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…
Continue reading...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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