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2017/12/02
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Italy 2012 – Final Summary – Rules to Adopt and Follow

2017/12/28
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Italy 2012 – Final Summary – Rules to Adopt and Follow

  This is a summary article about the rules and tradition that we discovered are very convenient and important to follow.  Italian – Learn and use basic Italian words.  Do not be a mute foreigner.  At least spice up your inability to speak with a bright smile and Buon Giorno [bon gorno] and Ciao [chao].…

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Sep 3 MON – From Rome back to Boston

2017/12/24
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  We took an early breakfast, and left the hotel at 08:24.  I put another €23 worth of benzene into the car to top it off, and we returned the car to the airport at 08:57 with 11109 km on odometer. Here is a breakdown for days, kilometers, liters and Euros that we used during…

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Sep 2 SUN – Last day in Rome [… in progress …]

2017/12/20
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[…in progress…] Today, Sunday September 2, I woke up at 7:30 and immediately drove 600 meters to a nearest gas station and put 35 liters of benzene for €70.  Around 9:00 we had a good breakfast.  I even ate a boiled egg and some bacon. Hotel staff recommended taking a car to a free parking…

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Sep 1 SAT – Mount Vesuvius [… in progress …]

2017/12/16
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[…in progress…] Today is Saturday, September 1, . We took our time for breakfast on Saturday, September 1, 2012, and we left the B&B at around 10:39. Around 11:24 we spent €0.99 on 6 nectarines in a shop in the neighboring town. We spent about an hour in the traffic trying to leave Sorrento. In…

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Tracking Boston Snow Records

2017/12/14
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When a narrow path to my entrance door became a treacherous ravine between two mounts of snow,  I decided to check, are we breaking any kind of record this year. Here is what I was able to find out. Boston keeps track of its weather since 1872. The most snow in any given 24 hours…

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Aug 31 FRI – La Dolce Far Niente [… in progress …]

2017/12/12
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[…in progress…] Today I woke up in Sorrento in 07:56.  Already things are drying after an overnight soak. We were so impressed with our accommodations, and so overwhelmed with our experiences that decided to spend entire day Friday, August 31 in the suit, just resting, taking it easy, and enjoying the harbor views. This carefree…

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Move IIS inetpub Directory

2017/12/11
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Move IIS inetpub Directory

To keep your operating system completely separate from all the web stuff, it is advisable to move inetpub directory off the root of a %SystemDrive% to a completly different drive. In these sample I am moving IIS from C:\inetpub to x:\inetpub.   Adjust this to your needs. Steps described here were tested on Windows 7 IIS…

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Calculating EPS and P/E – A Real Life Example

2017/12/10
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It is painful to state that so many important investment decisions are based on a P/E ratio, but it is very hard to find a clear explanation on how to calculate this very P/E for a given company. This article is written to demonstrate, how to calculate Earnings Per Share (EPS) and P/E using Newmont…

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Copy MP3 Files From PC to iPhone

2017/12/09
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Every time I need to copy a file to my iPhone, it is a hair rising experience.  Why?  Why I need to use some third party software to do the most basic task there is? I bought the very first iPhone (2G) in February 2008.  Somehow I figured out how to  to move media files between…

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Aug 30 THU – Capri – Day 2 [… in progress …]

2017/12/08
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 […in progress…] We woke up early, and had an early breakfast. We’ve met all the colorful characters on the farm: the overly shrewd babushka (the owner), who pretended that credit card machine doesn’t work, and I had to show her how to properly swipe the card.  The colorful workers from Ukraine and Sri Lanka.  One…

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Add a FILESTREAM feature to an existing SQL D/B

2017/12/07
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SQL 2008 SP2 FILESTREAM Problem

SQL Server 2008 allows to store binary data, if Database has a FILESTREAM feature

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