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SQL Error 80004005 – “Specified SQL server not found” – Solved

2026-04-06 Udar Gromov 0

Environment ASP or ASP.NET site is running on IIS 7.5. SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (10.50.1600.1) running on Windows 2008 Server R2 (W2K8 R2) x64. Problem You will see one of two errors depending on whether you dealing with ASP or ASP.NET sites. On ASP.NET sites you will […]

4 09-01 MO – Some magnesium fire please

2026-04-05 Udar Gromov 0

Slow start. Finally decided to break open my magnesium fire starter kit. It was $12 at EMS, but it did not include the knife of metal strip to do the magnesium shavings. I had to use my own knife. I was struggling for about 40 minutes with the instructions, and […]

08 August 23, 2010: Camogli – San Fruttuoso – Portofino and Back

2026-04-04 Udar Gromov 0

On Monday, August 23, we woke up in Genova to proceed to the southernmost point of our trip – Italian Riviera. We took an advice of our host Stephan (75% sure the name is correct) to avoid more popular and more remote Cinque Terre. We dropped our bags and started […]

3 08-31 SU – A day at “sea” – just soaking up the wild

2026-04-03 Udar Gromov 0

Last event yesterday links with the first event today. Late last night I discovered that cheap charge wire for iPhone that I buy from China for $1 stopped working, and my phone have only 5% charge left. Today, I found a twist of the wire and I was able to […]

2 08-30 SA – Up Rainbow to Carter Dome – down Black Angel to Wild River loop

2026-04-02 Udar Gromov 0

Always in progress . . . Next morning started around 7 (I opened my eyes at 07:22). Around 8:40 AM, I started my hike. For that day, I planned to complete a circle – climb 4,832 Carter Dome mountain, descend on a Black Angel trail, and complete the […]

1 08-29 FR – Off to a wild New Hampshire

2026-04-01 Udar Gromov 0

Life is always in progress until it is not This time it was a special trip. I used all the accumulated information and wisdoms of previous trips on this trip. I woke up really early on Friday morning August 29 2014 (04:39 AM), checked the weather one last time […]

Windows Photo Viewer: Can’t Rotate Images on a Network Drive – Solved!

2026-03-30 Udar Gromov 1

It is the the LITTLE problems that annoys the most! I love Windows, but why Windows is so awkward in same strange and unexpected ways? This article is about one of such problems – Image viewing and rotation. Why it is so hard? Do not even think to joke here. There […]

Trump – Why no one knew?

2026-03-29 Udar Gromov 0

This electoral map reflects a general expectation before the election. Clinton appeared to have 268 votes for sure and needed to win only 4 votes from NH or any other “gray” state. One day before the election New York Times estimated the probability on Clinton winning at 81%. CNN estimates […]

07 August 22, 2010: Genova – Columbus and Paganini

2026-03-28 Udar Gromov 4

And just when you think there is nothing can beat the excitement of the highest mountains in Europe, you proceed to the road ahead. Next day, Sunday, August 22, we decided to bypass Turin and go directly to Genova. We typed in an address of Red House Hostel (Via B.Buozzi, 26/9) in […]

* Use Wildcards with REG DELETE (Almost) *

2026-03-27 Udar Gromov 0

I loved writing this article. You will se here the power of good old batch commands. Amazing! Say, I am trying to resolve a problem in a registry. To isolate the problem, I need to delete hundreds of branches from an externally loaded Registry hive QQ\Classes from a parallel instance. For […]

26 Ways to Say STOP in English and Russian

2026-03-26 Udar Gromov 5

I started to list all the things that I would do to stop the Spammers. Suddenly, I realize that almost every letter in English language has a word for Stop, Block or Prevent.

Я начал перечислять все те вещи, которые я бы сделал, чтобы остановить Spammers. Вдруг я осознал, …

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