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The Inherent Impossibility of Repaying Social Debt

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The society from which we inherit benefits is, in many ways, a product of the past, and the individuals and communities that created it are no longer present...

Windows 11 installation has failed

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If you have been attempting to upgrade to Windows 11 and having issues then read on!

Google Photos Metadata 😗😙😚

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My cousin Anton, in Moscow, and I making a cross-continental photo album. We have started scanning some old photos so that we can preserve the memory of our ...

Downloading Files from RSS with Jdownloader Packegizer 💻💥😍

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Intro

Linkmoji 💪😎👍

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Linkmoji!

AEM Capability Matrix

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I always get asked does AEM has any components that come out of the box (OOTB)? What is the list of OOTB component? Can I use them?

Lucene Index Configuration in AEM

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If you need to update index configuration to speed up your searches in AEM, you will need to add add an indexing_config.xml to your quickstart.

JCR Predicate Operations in AEM

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Here are some samples of JCR search in AEM. There is very little doco on this so here it goes.

My move from Polar to Garmin

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I’ve finally completed my journey from Polar to Garmin. Just after I started running 3 years ago and before my first marathon I bough my self a training watc...

VBA and Office 2013

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I’ve installed office 2013 Preview and found one of my projects not working in my case it was WebBrowser component. Well turns out bunch of ActiveX controls ...

VBA Try…Catch…Finally

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When writing function and in particular custom error handling in VBA please remember this common patern for error handling when using “On Error”.

How to manually update iPhone 4 from ipsw file?

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I followed the following steps to restore my iPhone from IPSW file:

How to pair iPhone and Blueant ST3…

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If you are having trouble pairing your iPhone4 with Blueant ST3, try to turn off Blueant by holding down the green button, once off press and hold the green ...

Training for your first marathon.

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TreeView in Office 2010 - ActiveX Control Workaround

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Getting the ActiveX controls working in Office 2010 is easy, but making sure every one has those controls is not so. Here is my solution for this, I was unab...

SQL 2008 Full-text index Add button is disabled!

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I restored an SQL 2000 database to sql 2008 server, upgraded etc, but the Full-text index menu uption is disable, obviously full-text indexing is always on i...

Monolith is complete!

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Life

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Was doing a bit of pondering yesterday, on life, as you do.The main point that was constantly being in the spotlight is the inability to control your thought...

Visual C++ 6 and Thinstall

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To make VC6 work in Thinstall environment makesure you change all installation paths to a path that does not contain spaces, example:

Liquid Cooled Monolith!

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Well the project has been in the air for a while, but now its getting some needed objectification.

SQL 2005 XML XQuery: Ignore Namespaces

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A dba mentioned to change XML schema of the xml being save to the database, not to include namespaces….well why not just ignore them.