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Guide to Using DDRescue to Recover Data

Start command:

ddrescue -d /dev/sda output.img output.mapfile

NOTE: If direct disc access is not available in your system, try raw devices.

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Brew Bundle Brewfile Tips

Copyright & License

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# Inspirations from:
# - https://github.com/tex2e/blog/blob/master/_posts/powershell/2021-01-11-open.md?plain=1
# - https://github.com/PowerShell/Community-Blog/blob/main/Posts/2022/07/cheat-sheet-console-experience.md?plain=1

# Other PowerShell profiles
# - https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile/blob/master/defaults.ps1
# - https://github.com/staxmanade/DevMachineSetup/blob/master/initProfile.ps1
# - https://github.com/epoweripione/dotfiles/blob/main/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
# - https://github.com/effs/dotfiles/blob/main/powershell/pwsh7_profile.ps1
# - https://github.com/razy69/Powershell/blob/master/Doc/Machine_Profile.ps1

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So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand...

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.

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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""Script to draw bounding boxes and text from a Tesseract box file.

The script takes an image TIFF_FILE, draws the text and bounding boxes
of the corresponding BOX_FILE and saves the resulting OUT_FILE.

Tesseract box file columns:
<symbol> <left> <bottom> <right> <top> <page>

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How to apply this patch

On Windows

1. Find out where your WoW directory is installed (i.e. C:\Blizzard\World of Warcraft\).
2. Install Git for Windows.
3. Download [https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mahmoudimus/24c0d7c57abf8118a67b3bf89f1308ba/raw/48cf40254f65d9f9febef4f2f3264b3c438bab27/Utils.lua.patch] to your _retail_/Interface/AddOns/!KalielsTracker folder.
4. Run git apply --whitespace=fix Utils.lua.patch. You can read more about this here: stackoverflow.com/a/40919520/13351

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(This is a translation of the original article in Japanese by moratorium08.)

(UPDATE (22/3/2019): Added some corrections provided by the original author.)

Writing your own OS to run on a handmade CPU is a pretty ambitious project, but I've managed to get it working pretty well so I'm going to write some notes about how I did it.

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/opt/jabba/jdk/openjdk@1.17/bin/java -Xms30g -Xmx30g -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+PrintCodeCache -XX:NonProfiledCodeHeapSize=512m -XX:NonNMethodCodeHeapSize=32m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=2g -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=512m -XX:CodeCacheExpansionSize=2m -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal

[Global flags]
      int ActiveProcessorCount                     = -1                                        {product} {default}
    uintx AdaptiveSizeDecrementScaleFactor         = 4                                         {product} {default}
    uintx AdaptiveSizeMajorGCDecayTimeScale        = 10                                        {product} {default}
    uintx AdaptiveSizePolicyCollectionCostMargin   = 50                                        {product} {default}
    uintx AdaptiveSizePolicyInitializingSteps      = 20                                        {product} {default}
    uintx AdaptiveSizePolicyOutputInterval         = 0                                         {product} {default}
    uintx AdaptiveSizePolicyWeight                 = 10   

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var tablistcontainer = (document.getElementById("history-app")
                        .shadowRoot.getElementById("synced-devices")
                        .shadowRoot.getElementById("synced-device-list"));

/* for sessionbuddy import */
var output = {tabs: []}; 
/* run through synced device cards *only* */
[].forEach.call(tablistcontainer.children, curNode => {
     if (curNode.nodeName !== "HISTORY-SYNCED-DEVICE-CARD") {
        return;

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echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | debconf-set-selections
add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java
apt-get -qq update
apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer xfce4 xvfb
wget http://download.nomachine.com/download/4.6/Linux/nomachine_4.6.4_13_amd64.deb
dpkg -i nomachine_4.6.4_13_amd64.deb
echo 'DefaultDesktopCommand "/usr/bin/X11/startxfce4"' >> /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg
echo "PhysicalDesktopAuthorization 0" >> /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg
echo "VirtualDesktopAuthorization 0"  >> /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg
COOKIE=`ps -ef | md5sum | cut -f 1 -d " "`