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You unfortunately put your Windows 10 host computer to sleep - and it was running a few guest VMs that are 64-bit OS.

Upon awaking your computer, and restarting your VMs, you are greeted with an unfamiliar message:

Just recently, I started receiving errors that pertained to a crashed semaphore table. A quick web search indicated that somehow, my MySQL database was not shutdown properly.

Many suggestions to fix this issue involved using PHPMyAdmin - but I've always been reluctant to use this tool as there are many accounts of this tool being used by crackers to get access to a database.

Scenario:

You have computers that perform dedicated tasks (servers), which you need to access from the web but would like to insulate these from the world wild web. You do not want to expose these backend servers: you want visiting web users to reach your front end server (for instance, www.MyWeb.com), which will then do the necessary work to display contents from these backend servers, based on client requests.

In my first post, I had introduced the Circular Economy (CE). The core idea was an argument to support the deployment of a new PLM application along side your legacy business applications, which arguably handle a variety of business activities, with the aim to extend the usefulness of these applications (and increase their overall ROI, hopefully).

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As a senior consultant in product lifecycle management solutions, I engage customers operating in a variety of industries, with the goal to provide a solution that works in an environment where often other systems are:

This is a great "toss together" salad dressing.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup (375 ml) olive oil
• 1/2 cup (250 ml) cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 3 tablespoons maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 2 teaspoon mustard
• 1 teaspoon dill
• 2 garlic cloves

Step:

1. Mix thoroughly all ingredients

This is a good start to enjoy your salad - Add other ingredients to your liking!

Excerpt from "Le temps des sucres et sa cuisine"

This is yet another way to keep warm in winter - and enjoy some maple syrup!

Ingredients:

• 1 oz (25 ml) gin
• 4 oz (100 ml) boiling water
• 1 oz (25 ml) maple syrup

Steps:

Mix altogether and enjoy!

Excerpt from "Les P'tits becs sucrés de la Beauce".

This fruit sauce is enhanced with maple syrup to give it an added hint of sweetness - and that wonderful aroma.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups (500 ml) fresh or frozen raspberries
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 3 tablespoons maple syrup
• 1 cup (250 ml) water

Steps:

1. Mix all ingredients in blender
2. Pass through sieve to remove large particles

Serve with chocolate torte or shortbread.

Excerpt from "Le Temps des sucres et sa cuisine"

I use this sauce to enhance pound cake or angel cake - it's just sooo delicious! Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup (375 ml) maple syrup
• 1 cup (250 ml) heavy whipping cream (35% fat)
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) melted butter (or margarine)
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) all-purpose flour

Steps:

This recipe is a great way to enjoy a French Canadian treat!  This pie has the consistency of a pecan pie, less the pecans.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup (250 ml) maple syrup
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup milk (175 ml) - 3.25% preferred; no fat-free milk, please!
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) brown sugar
• 1 8in or 9in pie shell, unbaked

Steps:

The LG HBM260 is the 1st bluetooth (BT) headset I ever bought, and I do wonder why I waited so long for this purchase...!

The looks:

It's lightweight - it measures about 2 inches long, by 3/4 in wide. It is not a huge device, and the ear clip (made of soft plastic) rotates easily so the device can be used for either the left or right ear. It is full-featured though simple - 3 multi-purpose buttons will get you going in a snap:

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A Montreal's favorite - the smoked meat sandwich!