Aug 27 MON – Napoli – Day 2 [… in progress …]


2017/11/26
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[…in progress…] We left our hotel after 11AM.  We walk down using narrow stairway, and later – a narrow street.  People’s living rooms and windows are opening directly into the street. While walking you are a witness to people’s lives, and they do not mind it. We ate our breakfast at a place that let us use their restroom yesterday on Via Foria (Caffetteria Vittoria – Via Foria, 64 – 11:35 – €11.50). Naples main attraction is its Museo Archeologico Nazionale, where all the spoils from Pompeii are stored.  We bought tickets (2×8=€16 cash) to the Museo at 12 noon.  At information desk we got some bleak copies of the museum…

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History of Panama Canal (1513 – 1915) Connecting Dots on the Map

2017/11/25
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What is an isthmus? It is a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas. Why Panama? Because it is irresistible. It was irresistible for everyone, who looked at the map of Americas for 400 years. At first, they search for a open waterway. There was none. Then they searched a passage to the North and to the South of the continent. On September 6, 1522 a news reached Spain that there is a water passage to the South. Only one ship with 18 men returned. They started 3 year earlier with 5 ships and a crew of 237. Ice and cold securely blocked…

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Adventures in the Dominican

2017/11/24
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2017-11-24 FR 18:35 (17:35 EST) Hello hello from warm Dominican Republic. – counting number of sudoku tables  – how many different valid 9-on-9 sudoku tables are possible? – questions to Mergebot – does their service ($26/month) support upgrading from one server to another while maintaining new configuration  options – planning DWC.com migration to Amazon: compare double entry vs. a new migration round – a week in a warm climate – any difference in health and state of mind? See you Sunday on a soccer field!

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Work with MySQL – Basic WordPress Queries

2017/11/24
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This article was born, as I was searching for ways to handle thousands of registered WordPress users, who never do anything, never return to the site, and never even change their default password.               Table of Topics -1030- List all registered users sorted by date -1060- Group registered users by email domain name -1090- Users who ever posted articles -1120- List of registered users who ever posted comments -1150- List of users, who posted messages in your bbPress Forum -1180- Group users by year and month of registration -1210- Count users in different roles -1240-  Users who never changed their default password -1270-  Users who changed their default password -1300-…

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Stuck in MSCONFIG Diagnostic startup? – Steps to fix

2017/11/23
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XPS12 is back online. I experienced a mini-crisis of my own creation.  My 3-year old Dell XPS 12 laptop with latest Win 10 Pro build started to misbehave here and there, and I used MSCONFIG and set computer to Diagnostic startup – the option in the middle. That locked laptop from starting up properly.  Laptop will boot normally, but will never show the login boxes.  Only my default picture and some language, disability and power button in the lower right corner. To fix the problem I had to fight for a solution for a little bit.   I was very close to reinstalling the whole Windows 10, and lose my Oracle JDE…

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Aug 26 SUN – Road to Napoli [… in progress …]

2017/11/22
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[…in progress…] Today we spent almost entire day driving from Pitigliano to Napoli.  We paid €65 cash and left the place around 10:30.  We set GPS to one of the hotels in Napoli from my list, and it showed that we need to drive over 350 km, and if driving nonstop we should arrive at 14:30.  We stopped for watermelon break, for gas (€86 for 45 liters).  We also stopped for a lunch (€17.30). Road was perfect.  After 3 or 4 hours of driving we only paid €15 in tolls.  We arrived in Napoli around 16:00. We overshoot by one exit, and entered Napoli back streets littered with garbage evenly distributed…

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Store ASP.NET User Security Inside Your SQL Database

2017/11/21
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How to move all ASP.NET security tables to your custom SQL database and how make it all work together. Consists of three steps: -01- Create security tables in your current custom database; -02- Generate a machine key -03- Modify web.config

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Notes after Woodstock Fruit Festival 2016

2017/11/20
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Notes after Woodstock Fruit Festival 2016

  Woodstock Fruit Festival was held from August 21 to August 28, 2016. This page will eventually grow with more and more pictures from various days of this week-long event. Most of this will be interesting for the actual participants of the Woodstock Fruit Festival that has nothing to do with Woodstock. 2016-08-25 THU Camp Walden – Diamond Point, NY USA Activity Tent #2 – 21-year old guru. Nikita with a straw. 2016-08-26 FRI Camp Walden – Diamond Point, NY USA Rainy Breakfast – Business Lunch – Corny Dinner People! – Can we get enough people for the next year? 2016-08-27 SAT Camp Walden – Diamond Point, NY USA Supper time – Last Supper…

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XML Parsing Error in Firefox; Cannot Display This Feed in IE

2017/11/19
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This article describes, how to fix RSS Feed error messages in WordPress. In Firefox the error is “XML Parsing Error”.  In IE you see “Internet Explorer cannot display this feed”.   Symptoms When you click on RRS link in WordPress (or bbPress), you are getting this error message (see images bellow).  The message is different depending on your browser. Firefox Internet Explorer XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity  Location: http://www.domainwebcenter.com/wp-content/bbpress/rss.php?topic=29 Line Number 4, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>   Internet Explorer cannot display this feed  This feed contains code errors. Go back to the previous page. More information Invalid xml declaration. Line: 4 Character: 3 <?xml…

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Aug 25 SAT – Agriturismo in Pitigliano [… in progress …]

2017/11/18
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[…in progress…] Today is Saturday.  After breakfast, we checked out, but spent another 45 minutes in the pool.  Guests from yesterday have already left the night before or earlier this morning.  We had the entire property to ourselves. We departed from Agriturismo “La Quiete”  near Cecina at 12:00 noon.  We drove 99 km on a highway to Grosseto, and then jumped into a winding road toward Pitigliano and some address I entered into GPS. The road was so saturated with turns that we had to stop and catch our spinning heads. Around 2 PM we had lunch in Enoteca Dei Mille Di Detti Michele in Seasano (14:54 – 2 Piazza Garibaldi,…

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Windows 7 – How to Copy and Delete Massive System Directories

2017/11/17
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Problem: You have an old discarded instances of failed Windows 7 installs.  You can rename the directories, but they still clutter your hard drive, and they are very hard to get rid of. I simply can’t take this painful and slow process of deleting huge system directories under Windows 7.  Remember this endless stream of errors, and warnings, and skips.  The same task in Win XP only takes a few seconds.  But under Windows 7, it  is a project of its own.  Pain! Finally, my patience ran out.  I decided to write a script.  And it it worked!   Delete Windows System Directories Here is a fantastic way to delete huge Windows 7…

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