After installing Mongodb for the first time in Linux Mint 21.1 and creating a test database all was working well. The next day i attempted to connect to the Mongodb shell using the terminal and mongosh executable. I was presented with this error: mongooseserverselectionerror: connect econnrefused 127.0.0.1:27017 Linux Terminal After […]
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In baking, each ingredient is expressed in terms of the flour weight, which is always expressed as 100 percent. For example, let’s take a typical formula for French bread: * Flour: 100% * Water: 66% * Salt: 2% * Instant yeast: 0.6% * Total: 170% So, let’s say we’ve got […]
French Bread

Thank you!: ZeroFunter FOR ANSWERING: How can I get a returned object from a function that is executed as a Tkinter callback? Sorry for being 6 years late, but recently I figured out a good way to do this without making your code messy and hard to maintain. This […]
Coding, Python event driven example from stackoverflow user

Long time no post… I have been looking for similar tools to Dropbox that offer better security and storage on Canadian computers. Seems I may have found one here, take a look and give it a try. Stay posted I will be doing some tests in the near future and […]
Canadian Dropbox Alternative

Plant a seed in fertile soil, nurture it each day and a flower with come forth. Who could ever imagine such a simple act could lead to such beauty.
Life is short…

Happy Summer! Party season is in full force, Summer solstice, St jean De Baptiste Day, World Pride, Canada day and Independence day, all within a 2 week period! What can complement all the celebrations? What else, a Barbecue and what better to serve on your favourite protein source but a […]
Wow!??: Watson concocts BBQ sauce

Greetings from the front-line! One of my overseas clients suddenly experienced an activation error on her laptop during the last half of May 2014, the client had not used the laptop in over a month. The computer dutifully installed all the updates since the last round and restarted. On to […]
Office 2013: Slow startup

Greetings, today I was working on a windows Vista laptop with a Brother MFC J4510dw printer/scanner/fax machine that I had installed and setup for my client a month ago. The client had complained that the printer could not print more than 1 copy of a document at a time. That […]
Vista: UAC Control

Greetings! I ran across this piece today and thought you might be interested in reading a little internet history.
History: First Domain Name Ever!

Two excellent options to protect your computer from the omni-present threat of viral infection are: AVG and Avira. I have used both over long periods without any infections. They both seem to offer sufficient protection from infection and varying amounts of interference with other processes running on the computer. I […]