Ideas
Month: May 2025
Places
Preparations for July 2017 trip to Appalachian Trail (AT)
Plan On TUE, June 20 I ordered the AT topo map from Carlo Mountain to Pleasure Pond in Maine. This is a less traveled portion of Appalachian Trail (AT). From that point, the balance tipped toward going to AT instead of Bog Dam Road (BDR) for my July mini-vacation. Map […]
Windows
IE opens blank new tabs instead of your home page
You have masterfully designed custom home page for your Internet Explorer (IE). All of a sudden, only first tab displays your home page. All other new tabs in IE open as a blank page. What happened? Something is changing IE settings back to “A blank page” ? This particular fix […]
Places
Где Начинается Река Ока?
На карте http://maps.yandex.ru/ ищите Дружовец Орловской области. Если вы будете искать “село Александровка Глазуновского района Орловской области”, то yandex покажет вам не ту Александровку. Может быть в Глазуновском районе две Александровки? Так же по теме: Description Link Схема бассейна Оки (приток Волги) http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Oka_basin.png Река Ока http://riverforum.ru/showthread.php?t=143 Фотографии и Комментарии […]
Ideas
Office and Browsers
WordPress: Image Editor is not loading in IE under tight security
Let’s say you have a very thigh zone security setup in IE. All Internet sites are set to High security level, and Trusted sites are set a Medium-High. In that case you might experience a painful WordPress problem – Image Editor is not loading in IE. It is getting stuck on […]
Ideas
Russian hacking? – No. Putin aspired to help, but “NSA has moderate confidence” with a fake seal
Hurrah! Russian hacking report is out, and now we finally learned that “Putin … aspired to help President-elect ..”, however “NSA has moderate confidence” in that statement. Good intelligence work! Putin just ASPIRED something and now we reading about it in a long-awaited intelligence report. It would be probably cheaper to buy any newspaper in […]
Windows
Extremely Slow Windows XP Shutdown – Fixed
Several years I had this problem in one particular instance of Windows XP Professional – an extremely slow shutdown upon clicking on Shutdown button. For several minutes system would completely freeze, and then Shutdown/Restart dialog box would finally come up. What did I know about the problem. It was extremely […]
Ideas
Office and Browsers
Macros to “Paste as Text” for Word and Excel
These two macros will save you a lot of time. You will used them every time when you need to copy something from external source (like Internet page) into a Word or Excel document, but you do not need all the colors and formatting. You just need the text. Normally, […]
SQL Server
SQL – Count combinations of values in several columns
You have a large table (in my case it has 8,697,647 records) with an Asset Number and a Business Unit, and you would like to know if any asset has record with multiple Business Units. You can count records of unique Asset/BU combinations, but this is not what you want: […]