I went hiking at Sunfish Pond today in Columbia, NJ (just before exit 1 on Route 80 West). My iPod Nano’s pedometer shows I walked just over 18,000 steps, so that’s roughly 9 miles. The terrain is very rocky but the hills are not very steep so a beginner hiker should be fine, it’s just pretty long. Just follow the white trail all the way to the pond.
The main attraction, the Sunfish Pond, is …
I hiked for almost 3 hours this afternoon at the Ramapo Valley County Reservation in Mahwah, NJ with my VFF KSOs. I’ve been hiking a lot lately and I can thank the VFFs for that, it’s just so much fun to hike/walk with these shoes!
This is a pretty nice park for hiking, it’s big and there’s quite a variety of terrains. There’s a paved section, dirt trails, rocky ones (both with big rocks and …
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The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.
Received this error after submitting an application written in C++ to the Microsoft HPC Server 2008 cluster. To fix it, simply install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package on the compute nodes. I recommend you install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions as you may have some users compiling their applications in 32-bit and some in 64-bit.
I was writing some scripts today and part of it is to compress some files. I normally make an external application call to 7-Zip command line when I do this, but then I decided to just do a quick Google search to see if Python has one built in.
It turned out there’s this zipfile module that’s part of the standard library that can compress and decompress files for you (only the standard ZIP compression …
In Windows XP connecting to the Netgear WGPS606 wireless printer server is pretty simple, you connect to it the same way you connect to a Windows print server, using the UNC path (i.e. \\print_server_name_or_ip). In Windows Vista or Windows 7, however, this won’t work.
I actually first ran into this problem about a year ago when I upgraded to Windows Vista. I then did a fresh install of Windows 7 a few months ago and …