diskpart
(list disk, select disk X) if not the only drive
(list vol, select vol Y) focus on the intended volume (EFI/System or Recovery/Hidden)
assign letter=Q:
Mounting hidden/system drives with diskpart in Windows
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Explorer Preview Pane for Excel 2013 crashes!
Recently my Excel crashed and hid itself so there are multiple copies of the same file opened and the old copy overwritten the new copy. Whenever I try to open a file from Explorer, the opened Excel file closes itself and hides in the background! WTF!
Cause
Turns out Microsoft’s turned the preview handler for Excel on by default, and whoever the f***ing guy who programmed this handler chose to do the simple minded thing by simply opening the file in a full Excel limited into the preview pane by the ActiveX control!
Damn. Have they even thought users would normally click on the file in Explorer, which the preview pane opens it in the background when the file is selected/highlighted, just to double click to open it in a full Excel to edit it?!!
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Namecheap SHARED HOST self-migration notes
Here’s the notes for moving from one namecheap hosting to another space yourself while keeping the same domain/settings.
Full backup on cPanel is a lie
A perfect full migration of shared host can only done by namecheap’s customer service. They told you in the doc that you can do a partial migration yourself but it’s not the full picture! Not only the self-service option is more tedious as you have to move the fragments instead processing one big archive file, there is a piece that’s not accessible from the self-service migration route: Calendars/Tasks/Contacts
This means if that ONLY IF you don’t use CardDAV/CalDAV at all, you can do the migration yourself.
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Tektronix’s TDS/DPO7000 series Mechanical (Chassis) Design is Evil
I thought the TDS500~800 series design is already frustrating to service. But TDS7140 (or DPO7000) takes the cake. Whoever the a**hole designed the chassis made it a f*cking lettuce wrap. It’s not even an onion that you can predictably guess how you’d approach it.
To get any meaningful access to the insides, you MUST first remove the plastic front panel bezel, which is a fragile part that if you didn’t get the plastic hooks right, you’ll break it when you try to force anything. The service manual is not helpful. Likely written by somebody with a ‘fuck it. somebody’ll figure it out’ attitude.
This can be seen by the service manual giving an exploded view diagram without a precise order-of-removal dependency graph, nor the decency of telling you where each hook is and which of them are slides that must not be pried open like hooks. This is basically is tricking people to break the front bezel because those who didn’t know this already won’t know until they shine a flashlight to investigate the geometry around the hooks before releasing the front bezel.
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All in 1 Mini Card Reader Manufacturing Flaw (Bad USB connector)
Recently, I’ve bought this CF card reader on eBay but it doesn’t detect at all.
I looked closely into the connector with a loupe and realized that the mini USB conductor was molded incorrectly. The center middle pin was pushed down because extra plastic was deposited above it:
The seller refunded in full but I figured that if the connector is malformed at the molding stage, buying it from another seller is not going to make it work, and the other form factors/connector configurations are inconvenient, so I tried my luck and see if there are exact matches for the connector they’ve used. Turns out it’s a 56 cents connector (price for 1 piece) available in Mouser (UJ2-MBH-1-SMT-TR):
In bulk, this connector can be bought for $0.22. For something that’s selling for $5/pc, the Red Chinese manufacturing had to go cheap to shave a few cents that ended up turning finished products into total trash. Most people are not electronics/troubleshooting savvy enough to figure out this shit, and the labor cracking the piece up and the SMD rework can easily buy 20pcs new. I just happened to have the tools (Metcal hot tweezers) so I can desolder the bad connector in seconds, but average users do not have that luxury so the neutered USB card readers go straight into trash.
We need more products NOT made in China!