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Below are a few points to live by in the coming year.

1. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.
2. Study hard as knowledge enables a man to work more intelligently and effectively.
3. Have initiative ruts often deepen into graves.
4. Love your work then you will find pleasure in mastering it.
5. Be exact, slipshod methods bring slipshod results.
6. Have the spirit of conquest: thus you can successfully battle and overcome difficulties.
7. Cultivate personality, personality is to a man what perfume is to the flower.
8. Help and share with others, the real test of business greatness lies in giving opportunity to others.
9. Be democratic, unless you feel right toward your fellow men, you can never be a successful leader of men.
10. In all things do your best, the man who done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

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I found this problem on a code challenge website and I thought to share it with my readers

132 =26 xy=133745639

Write a program which can work out what possible values of x and y are. For this exercise x and y cannot be 1 and are both whole positive numbers

My solution makes  use of the trial division integer factorization algorithm.

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Windows Batch File Version

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DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. thus DNS clients will temporarily store the website names that have been visited lately. This cache speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address (the most common example being when a user is browsing the internet).A bad DNS entry can sometimes be cached, requiring a user to either flush the DNS cache immediately or wait for up to twenty-four hours for the entry to be automatically dropped. DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. thus DNS clients will temporarily store the website names that have been visited lately. This cache speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address (the most common example being when a user is browsing the internet).A bad DNS entry can sometimes be cached, requiring a user to either flush the DNS cache immediately or wait for up to twenty-four hours for the entry to be automatically dropped.

Flushing Microsoft Windows Open the command prompt and type the following The above command flushes the DNS completely thus deleting any incorrect entries

To view DNS Cache, type the following command after opening the command prompt Flushing DNS in MacOS X Type the following command at the terminal

Flushing DNS in Ubuntu Linux

Type the following command at the terminal

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