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Trump 2020

[ 2020-04-29 ] Learn from Donald Trump skills of handling the press (по-русски) Ideas
[ 2020-04-22 ] Democratic Machiavellian disciple opens his cards (unwillingly) Ideas
[ 2020-04-15 ] Obama/Hilary would like to know will Russian/Chinese leadership survive a nuclear strike and keep operating Ideas
[ 2020-04-14 ] RUS: Споры о Трампе пересекают границы, делят семьи
EN: Arguments about Trump cross borders, divide families Ideas
[ 2020-03-29 ] Trump – Why no one knew? Ideas
[ 2020-02-26 ] Trump vs. Internationalists Ideas
[ 2020-02-17 ] Clinton vs. Trump – Dream of businessman in White House trumps the dream of a woman in there Ideas

IE opens blank new tabs instead of your home page

2020-05-10 Udar Gromov 0

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 […]

WordPress: Image Editor is not loading in IE under tight security

2020-05-07 Udar Gromov 0

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 […]

Extremely Slow Windows XP Shutdown – Fixed

2020-05-05 Udar Gromov 15

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 […]

Macros to “Paste as Text” for Word and Excel

2020-05-03 Udar Gromov 7

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 – Count combinations of values in several columns

2020-05-02 Udar Gromov 0

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: […]

How to properly zoom in Word and Excel – Ctrl+[+] and Ctrl+[-]

2020-04-27 Udar Gromov 0

This is cool! This is fresh! Make your Word and Excel to respond to human zoom commands like normal applications. In most modern applications you can zoom in and zoom out current window using fast Ctrl + Plus and Ctrl + Minus keyboard shortcuts. Not so in Word and […]

PHP chokes server with TEMP files – Updated and Solved

2020-04-23 Udar Gromov 0

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 […]

PC Sleep and PC Hibernate Shortcuts

2020-04-19 Udar Gromov 4

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. […]

Transfer Rosetta Stone user progress from PC to PC

2020-04-13 Udar Gromov 0

To transfer your progress data from one PC to the next you need to copy one file: tracking.db3 On Windows XP this file is located in: “%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Rosetta Stone\Language Training\” OR “%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Rosetta Stone\” (on version 3) On Windows 7 this file is located in: “%ProgramData%\Rosetta StoneLanguage Training\” “%ProgramData%\Rosetta […]

Remotely Power Up or Wake Your Wired PCs Over the Internet

2020-04-11 Udar Gromov 0

Idea – Reduce Noise, Save on Electricity My electric company installed an electricity consumption gadget, and ability to monitor usage online. A few month into the experiment I realized, that I can easily reduce electric usage, if I turned off my server. It is been over a year since I […]

Fix “Cannot generate SSPI context” while connecting to SQL Server

2020-04-10 Udar Gromov 0

Here is a problem resolved here – you can connect to MS SQL Server 2012 from the office, but when your try to connect from home over remote (in this case AVENTAIL) connection you would get an error message: “Cannot generate SSPI context“. Once again, from the office you can […]