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Gemini’s response to DNS issue
I lost drive mappings on a Windows client machine running Windows 8 when the Primary Domain Controller was migrated from one server to another. Changing the pointer to the DNS on the client and rebooting restored the drive mapping. No … Continue reading
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Python3 Extension Modules with Boost
Boost (a collection of C++ libraries) provides excellent tools for writing Python extension modules in C++. However building these modules for Python3 has some issues. This blog suggests a workaround Continue reading
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Recollections of a conversation with Antoine Mariadassou
It was soon after the tsunami in January 2005 when Marie Ange Harris (née Lernie) came to visit my mother (Antoinette Selvanadin) in our Candappa street, Pondicherry, house at around 10:00 in the morning. Presently, Antoine arrived. He was meeting … Continue reading
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Why use Duckduckgo
Duckduckgo is a search engine that is about 90% as good as Google. What do I mean by that? And why despite that I still recommend using Duckduckgo. Consider a simple search query “weed remover tool.” I am looking to … Continue reading
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Hosting your website in-house
There are 1700 million websites, of which around 200 million are active. Even of the active websites the vast majority are accessed less than once an hour, more like once a day. Most small businesses host their website on some … Continue reading