Finding Self
Year: 2025
Windows
Win 7 and Win 8 – How to Rename All System Directories
(and W2K8 Server, and R2, and XP too)
If only you could control names of directories, where Microsoft installs Windows, Data and Program Files. If you could, you would be able to install multiple instances of operating system on the same drive. So. let’s do it anyway. To do that you need two parallel installs of you favorite […]
Ideas
Clinton vs. Trump – Dream of businessman in White House trumps the dream of a woman in there
Summary: This article explains one overriding reason people voted for Trump. He is not a politician. He is a businessman. Trump supporters choose to vote for a businessman outside of Washington over a familiar woman-politician. Trump supports hope that this choice will allow to curb irresponsible Government spendings. Did you notice […]
Places
Aug 29 WED – Capri – Day 1 [… in progress …]
[…in progress…] We are planning to visit Capri, Pompei and Amalfi coast over the next 3 days and 3 nights. Overnight stay at Capri is not even planned. Buy we are very limb and flexible. Today is Wednesday. We woke up in a spacious villa in Sorrento. Internet still doesn’t […]
Hardware
Change Low Beam Lamp on Honda Accord 2003
How to Change Low Beam Lamp (Bulb) on Honda Accord 2003? Car Manual calls for a bulb named “12W 51W HB4”. When you call the auto-supply store for availability, they confirm that they do have plenty of those, and they call them 9006 bulbs. You can buy one bulb at […]
Office and Browsers
Properly Validate TextArea Length (IE vs. Firefox)
Let’s consider this example, where HTML page has a TEXTAREA and an INBOX. When user types inside TextArea, Inbox should show the length of TextArea string. <script type=”text/javascript”> function TTLength(objTT){ var tt= document.getElementById(‘TXT1’); tt.value = objTT.value.length; } </script> <textarea onKeyDown=”TTLength(this);” onKeyUp=”TTLength(this);” rows=”10″> This Text Area Contains a string With Newline […]
Ideas
Places
Aug 28 TUE – From focused Napoli to heavenly Sorrento
In the morning of 28-th we were anxious to get out. On the one hand, our car was blocked on the hotel protected parking lot by two other cars, and on the other, we did not want to fight unfair Wi-Fi charges at the front desk with two load and obnoxious […]
Ideas
How NOT to use your TODO
This post is a reaction to another post that complains that TODO list jails you in an endless loop of struggle with your own TODO list. Here are simple rules to follow to free yourself from the jail of your TODO: -1- Set the expectations right Till your last hour, […]
MySQL
SQL DB2: Concatenate TEXT from multiple records
Scenario Here is a recipe on how to concatenate a field from multiple records into one field. There are two pre-conditions for this method to work: First. Your source file needs to have an equivalent of a line number field. This should be a numeric field indicating the sequence in […]
ASP.NET
Cannot open database … requested by the login. The login failed.
Cannot open database “Your_DB” requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE’.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE’.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database “Your_DB” requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE’.