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EaseUS Invalid Data 0x13D0E00C

Today I got error code invalid data 0x13D0E00C on Ease US when trying to restore Obviously was easy to panick , but it was less worse than expected  It was a freshly taken backup a month ago, but I had taken it with the latest version of Ease US. Then I was restoring...

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Unquoted Service Path vulnerabilities in Windows OS

If you deploy a Windows Service, and the binary path doesn't contain double-quotes, you just created a vulnerability on the system.  This vulnerability is called "unquoted service path". E.g., if your BINARY_PATH_NAME = C:\Program Files\Dir1\Dir2\serv.exe -service A...

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WordPress + DIVI: Module Visibility by language

If trying to set conditional visibility by WPML language, choose by “Cookie” condition, and set to display only if: Cookie name: wp-wpml_current_languageCookie value: enCookie value: frCookie value: your language

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Trapped in the error “Word is better with a Microsoft account”

Recently as of July 2023 some people have been experiencing and are trapped with the following error "Word is better with a Microsoft account".The error looks like that:If you click on "Fermer" or "Close" at the bottom left, it shuts down office, and there are no ways...

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Add Canadian Multilingual to Debian 12 in Gnome Settings

By default, I wasn't seeing the Canadian Multilingual under Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources I finally had to install the french locales, then going back in the Settings > Keyboard > Input Sources it was now available. sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales And...

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Moving away from wkhtmltopdf

The latest author of wkhtmltopdf has made the github repository public archive on January 2, 2023, and is recommending not to use it with untrusted HTML. The best alternative I found is using the chromium headless feature, that has worked quite well for me. First,...

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Unable to load pcdcr.dll

I was having a problem with Sonos S1 Controller telling me: Unable to load pcdcr.dll. Please re-install. The official sonos forums were calling this a rare occurence and didn't have a solution here and here. I used process monitor to try to find out what was wrong and...

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Using rsync instead of git

Some of the benefits I've enjoyed using rsync instead of git to bring back my source code changes to the repository are: Proper symlink handling No state maintenance required One line command line Shows the files that changed A typical presync command would look like:...

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Importing EMLX files from Apple Mail

I was recovering some Apple Mail emails, and found they were in emlx format. Drag and dropping them into the Mail UI wouldn't work. I finally tried copying them over to my linux machine, and drag and dropping them into the Evolution main window worked great.

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