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RECOVER DATA FROM ATA PASSWORD PROTECTED LENOVO G570 HDD TO NEW LAPTOP
17 April 2026 @ 2:03 am
My lenovo G570 stopped working since very long ago unbale to repair with anywhere ,thought of retrieve old hdd from same laptop which is ATA master password protected since i remembering the password also unable to retrieve vial following methods
1.victoria Soft -security option -unlock device using Ata password
2.unable to boot via bios boot menu from new laptop
kindly give me idea to open the hdd and retrieve data from in it
Why don’t the three IDE-USB adapters I have work? [closed]
17 April 2026 @ 12:47 am
I have IDE-USB adapters. None of them show the drive in File Explorer. One of them blew up a drive, so I don't try that one anymore. But the other two, I've tried switching the jumper from Master to Slave to CSEL to no jumper on five different drives, and tried to find them in Disk Management and Device Manager. One of them added a drive in Device Manager, but it didn't let me do anything to make it visible in File Explorer.
I just got one of the adapters a few days ago, and most of the reviews say it works well. But it doesn't work at all for me. Any advice, other than stuff like "Make sure it has power" and things like that?
How to prevent LibreOffice headless from creating its config file tree in $HOME?
16 April 2026 @ 1:26 pm
I only did:
$ sudo aptitude install libreoffice-writer-nogui
…and only use soffice occasionally.
How might I prevent it from creating a file tree in
~/.config/libreoffice/ ?
It's not like I intend to be "partners for life, till death do us part" or something.
I tried:
$ HOME=/tmp soffice ...
…but that didn't fool it.
Note I need a command line solution, as I am headless.
Sure, I could probably symlink ~/.config/libreoffice/ to /tmp/bla etc. but I don't even want to have that one link "polluting" my $HOME.
How to include images when using soffice?
16 April 2026 @ 1:32 am
Reading this Stack Overflow answer I tried
$ soffice --convert-to \
"docx:Office Open XML Text:EmbedImages" \
file.html
Alas, there was no trace of my <img src="a.png" alt="bla"> in the created file.docx . Not even the alt="bla".
--convert-images-to png no improvement.
Yes, I am using the libreoffice-writer-nogui package on Debian.
As a test I did:
$ mv a.png b.png
and then ran soffice again. This time at least my alt string was included.
Windows OneDrive folder and file properties
22 August 2025 @ 2:45 pm
I use Windows 10.
All the files in the OneDrive folder has the green checkmark.
1.
If I "Unlink this PC" - what happens to all the files with the green checkmark?
They are kept in the OneDrive online cloud?
They are deleted from the local OneDrive folder?
2.
If I download a file from OneDrive online browser then the files "Modified" date is being updated - bad
If I copy a file from the OneDrive folder in Windows to another local folder, then the "Modified" date is unchaged - good
I have only tried this on the same computer.
But what if there is 2 computers:
Computer 1 copy file A to the Windows OneDrive folder.
Computer 2 (another computer) copies file A from Windows OneDrive folder to another local folder - is the "Modified" date / timestamp unchanged or updated?
I know the "Created" and "Accessed" dates are being updated / new when
How do I save a user's profile image on Microsoft Teams?
19 February 2025 @ 5:55 pm
I want to save a user's profile image in the desktop version of Microsoft Teams on Windows. Right clicking the image doesn't do anything. How do I save a user's profile picture in Microsoft Teams?
How to continue using msmtp OAuth 2.0 for Gmail in mutt after oob deprecation?
26 May 2022 @ 7:49 pm
background
For two years I've been happily accessing my Gmail accounts with neomutt.
I'm sync'ing between neomutt locally and my online Gmail account with mbsync and a "2-Step Verification" app password (Sign in with App Passwords).
sending email with msmtp, until now
To send a Gmail with neomutt is trickier, because msmtp requires an unexpired token from the Gmail API. Fortunately GitHub user tenllado provided the only working open-source solution that I've been able to find, his script oauth2token. I adapted it as oauth2tool.sh. The steps for this to function are:
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Is there a way to limit display resolution options in Windows 10?
9 April 2021 @ 5:47 pm
I'm trying to find out if it is possible to restrict or edit the list of possible resolutions offered in the Windows 10 Display Settings.
I would want to make sure that if the user changes the resolution, the only options available would ensure that the pixels that Windows is displaying are made up of either 1, 4, or 9 physical pixels of the monitor. If the native resolution of the display is 3840x2160, viable choices would be 3840x2160, 1920x1080, 1280x720, etc.
An invalid resolution like (for example) 1536x864 would result in Windows pixels that are 2.5 x 2.5 physical pixels and would introduce artifacts in the image because of the fractional pixel. That is what I'm trying to prevent.
Using CertUtil MergePfx with password as a parameter
17 December 2020 @ 2:22 pm
I'm trying to script generation of a single pfx certificate, from one key and one pem file. The following command in Powershell will generate a .pfx as expected:
CertUtil -MergePFX $srcPemPath $outPfxPath
But it prompts me to manually enter the private key password. It'd be most convenient if I didnt have to do this manually.
Looking at the Microsoft documentation
I should be able to provide the password as an optional extended property parameter, however when I try the following:
CertUtil -MergePFX $srcPemPath $outPfxPath -p $certPassword
I get an error:
Expected no more than 3 args, received 4
CertUtil: Too many arguments
Neither the usage hint or the documentation makes it clear how this is supposed to be done. Is it possible, and how?
Update
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
31 October 2020 @ 11:11 pm
First, I spent an hour trying answers with similar titles so please read this through before flagging this question as a duplicate.
I use a YubiKey to store my PGP private key using its smart card feature.
I confirm the private key works as I can connect to servers using SSH (which triggers pinentry-mac).
$ cat .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
enable-ssh-support
default-cache-ttl-ssh 60
max-cache-ttl-ssh 120
default-cache-ttl 60
max-cache-ttl 120
pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac
The gpg: decryption failed: No secret key error is thrown when the YubiKey smart card is not unlocked and I run gpg commands.
$ gpg --decrypt /path/to/file.asc
gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID redacted
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID redacted, created redacted
redacted
gpg: public key decryption failed: Broken pipe
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
When the above error is th