On December 21, 2003, post-graduate physics students Marni Sheppeard and Sonja Rendell set out for a three-day hike through Arthur’s Pass National Park in southern New Zealand. Sonja had recently split up with her boyfriend and was looking forward to…
Ian Maw was my uncle. He passed away on July 3, 2017. This is my tribute to his life, which was read at his funeral on July 13, 2017. Pictured above (from left to right): Myself as a young lad,…
When MySQL replication breaks or becomes corrupted, sometimes it is necessary to rebuild it from scratch. Follow the steps below on your Windows servers running MySQL to restore replication to a healthy state. On the Slave Server 1. Login to…
When setting up MySQL on a Windows server, it is good practice to move the data folder to a secondary drive or partition. There’s a very important reason for this: you want to avoid having the database files & logs…
Problem Starting with Microsoft Windows 10 (1903 Update) users started experiencing problems using Remote Desktop. After connecting to a remote computer and working for a while, Remote Desktop freezes. The user is then required to disconnect Remote Desktop and then…
Around 1799, Daniel McGinnis was exploring Oak Island, Nova Scotia when he came upon an unusual depression in the ground. He returned a short while later with two friends, John Smith & Anthony Vaughn, and they began digging. At two…