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18.01.2017

Can not connect to Remote Desktop Connection in Windows Server 2012R2

System Administration

I faced today strange problem that I could not connect to Windows server through Remote Desktop Connection. When I click “Connect” it disconnect me immediately. Restarting the server didn’t helped. Here is the simple trick how you can connect… Open RDC dialog and click on Show Options Go to Advanced tab  and choose under If server authentication fails option Connect and don’t warn me You are now successfully connected after pressing the Connect button Glad to hear if this saved you day. You can Tweet this solution so help someone…read more

06.10.2016

Tuscany in Autumn

Leisure and Pleasure

Ever been in Tuscany? If not, you must go there. Amazing landscapes and old mediaeval towns. At the top of it is always adorable Italian food and wines and climate is super mild during the whole year. Gladiator movie is also filmed in some of these locations and I created few wide prints for my office from these image I took…

Duplicate emails in Thunderbird

Technologies

If for some reason you are getting multiple duplicated emails in Thunderbird and can not fix that this is the recipe: Close Thunderbird Go to you email directory – you can find the path in your email Account settings Delete the popstate.dat file Start Thunderbird and check for new mail

06.10.2016

MySQL importing from dump file error 1118 – Row size too large

Databases

Hi, If you have faced a problem when importing your data to MySQL from a large file and it said: ERROR 1118 (42000) at line xxx: Row size too large (> 8126) This is a known bug for MySQL versions 5.6.20.0, 5.6.21.0 and I noticed that I didn’t have this problem at version 5.6.24. In order to make it work also on MySQL 5.6.21.0 edit your “my.ini” configuration file and increase the innodb log size like this: innodb_log_file_size = 256M Hope it solves you the problem, like it helped me,…read more

15.08.2016

Entity Framework in .NET and MySQL tinymce(1) problem

Programming

You know at tinymce(1) field in MySQL database will be converted to boolean type in C#. Sometimes you don’t want this because you just want to read the integer value from MySQL in this field (it can be any from 0-255 if unsigned or -127-127 if signed) – one byte. In order to do so you need to do two things: Add TreatTinyAsBoolean=false to your connection string Edit the database edmx file and in SSDL content section change bool to tinyint, and in CSDL content section change Boolean into SByte….read more

24.03.2016

How to free space on Disk C

System Administration

There are a lot of system stuff that just eat important space in Windows on disk C (if you have SSD and smaller C partition you don’t want to run out of space). The best way is to create a junction (symbolic link) and to move some big folder to another partition (you need to have one first). By doing this Windows will be fooled because you will get the same path but it will be shortcut (pointer) to another real location. To do this move completely chosen folder to…read more

20.02.2016
10.02.2016

Ever been to Corsica?

Leisure and Pleasure

Summer vacation is coming in a few months. Ever been in Corsica? You should go to see it if you didn’t. It is a beautiful island with amazing beaches, villages and mountains. Ajaccio, born place of Napoleon, has the best city beach I have seen in my life. Usually you try to avoid them. The best beach on island is Capo di Feno. Don’t miss to visit Bonifacio. Here are some photos…

15.10.2015

Finding the passion

Thoughts

You need to be in the centre of these circles. Ikigai is a Japanese concept meaning “a reason to get up in the morning”, that is, a reason to enjoy life. (Source: found somewhere in Facebook posts)

Remove annoying Get Windows 10 tray icon

System Administration

Control Panel > Windows Update > Installed updates (at bottom left) -> find and remove KB3035583 (under Windows section) -> Restart computer It can come again with next update so be careful and if you see it then right click on it (under Select the updates you want to install) and click Hide this update As final check, see if you have a registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Gwx and delete it.

17.09.2015
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