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American Expats will hate paying for stuff in Germany

  One thing people will warn you about when moving to Germany is that they are not big fans of credit cards. I thought that this would be a minor/annoying inconvenience as it was when I traveled to Germany on vacation, but what I didn’t realize was how truly...

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Installing CamStudio

The current version of CamStudio apparently is packaged with some nasty advertisement software. So to get around this, instead of downloading at: http://camstudio.org/ Download direct from source forge at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/ If you get this error: “This application has failed to start beccause of MSVCR100.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may...

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Summarized: Cisco NAT/PAT

Cisco NAT/PAT (Network Address Translation)/(Port Address Translation) Types of NAT 1. Static NAT 2. Dynamic NAT 3. PAT Static NAT: Allows you to map an individual IP address from your private network (inside) to a global IP address. In the image below the laptop with IP 10.1.1.100 is being...

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Raspberry Pi Tutorial: Installing the OS

Text instructions to follow    

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Lacing up the shoes again

I got back from a fairly long business trip a couple of weeks ago involving 1 week in Amman, Jordan and around 5 weeks in Abu Dhabi, UAE. During this trip I didn’t have many opportunities to run outside or play any of the sports that I usually participate in around...

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Longest Run Yet – 14 miles

Today I was laying down on the bed thinking about taking a nap and decided that I should really get in a distance run this week since I haven’t put in many miles this week and decided I would try to map out a 14 mile course. I have...

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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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