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13 August 28, 2010: Seewen – Rapperswil-Jona – Winkel
Wake up in Airolo On Saturday, August 28 we woke up in Airolo. I had all mine and Lira’s warm clothes on me to stop the cold. I was able to delay the actual cold till September 10. Breakfast was included, so we eat along with all the bikers, who […]
MySQL
PHP chokes server with TEMP files – Updated and Solved
I am running PHP on IIS 7.5. This is a Windows 2012 Server. Fresh clean install every time. The only way to access and delete these TEMP files are by using a command prompt. And this deletion procedure will run for several DAYS . . . The Problem The story […]
Ideas
Democratic Machiavellian disciple opens his cards (unwillingly)
Let’s learn something new today. Let’s learn how modern power brokers deepened and expanded Machiavellian teachings of today. First, let’s set the stage. It is March of 2016 both Democrats and Republicans are bracing for the fact that Trump is leading and might easily get enough votes to get automatically nominated in […]
MySQL
MySQL: Fantastic adventures – WordPress users and their roles
This was exciting. After years of neglect, I have decided to examine, who is registering on my WordPress site, and what is that they are doing. I knew that most of them are just a result of robot activities, and they are just a dead weight in the database (useless […]
Places
12 August 27, 2010: St. Gotthard Pass and Lake Lucendro
Next day, Friday, August 27 2010 we woke up in Swiss-Italian Airolo. During breakfast we met a Swiss couple, who traveled on the rail, because it was “free” for them. They pay over 3000 CHF per year each to use the rial system for everyday commute. So they decided to […]
Hardware
PC Sleep and PC Hibernate Shortcuts
Everybody wants a shortcut for PS Sleep to save time on clicks. Instead of 3 clicks Start – Shutdown – Sleep every time, let’s have just one click – Sleep. There is a way to do that. Please tell me, if this also works in Windows XP.
WordPress
WordPress Contact Us form – Redirecting Back to Previous Page
How to implement a Contact Us form in WordPress? This article describes how to add a very simple Contact from using WordPress 3.0.1 and two plug-in(s): – Contact Form 7 and – Really Simple CAPTCHA. Later, you can customize the contact form to your delight using HTML tags through provided […]
MySQL
How to Convert Julian Date to Gregorian in MS SQL
Julian date is stored in YYYDDD format, for example 12/31/99 will be stored as 99365 and 01/01/2017 will be stored as 117001. If you need to convert the date from YYYDDD to any conventional date format like dd/mm/yyyy in SQL use steps below. The idea is to convert year and […]
Places
11 August 26, 2010: Back to Switzerland – Airolo
Next day – Thursday, August 26, 2010 – it was time to leave Bellagio and Italy and return to Switzerland. First, we had to drive using the same narrow and picturesque road along lake Come and enter Switzerland through Chiasso. Just a second ago we were driving on a busy […]