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How to view and send SMS from a computer

Posted by Alex On December 23, 2021

If you are a desktop or laptop user, then you probably have versions of WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram and other messengers for your computer. It is faster and more convenient to type messages and work with data on a computer. What about SMS? Well, first of all, yes, does anyone else use SMS messages? Secondly, now there are SMS messages for...

phpMyAdmin error “Deprecation Notice in .\vendor\twig\twig\src\Loader\FilesystemLoader.php#40 realpath(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($path) of type string is deprecated” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On December 17, 2021

At the time of this writing, the latest release of phpMyAdmin (5.1) is not fully compatible with the latest PHP versions (8.1.1), so the program displays the following deprecated syntax notices: Deprecation Notice in .\vendor\twig\twig\src\Loader\FilesystemLoader.php#40 realpath(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($path) of type string is deprecated Backtrace .\vendor\twig\twig\src\Loader\FilesystemLoader.php#40: realpath(NULL) .\libraries\classes\Template.php#57: Twig\Loader\FilesystemLoader->__construct(string 'C:\\Server\\data\\htdocs\\-phpmyadmin\\\\templates\\') .\libraries\classes\Theme.php#101: PhpMyAdmin\Template->__construct() .\libraries\classes\Theme.php#174: PhpMyAdmin\Theme->__construct() .\libraries\classes\ThemeManager.php#307: PhpMyAdmin\Theme::load( string...

All the ‘tips of the day’ LibreOffice

Posted by Alex On November 29, 2021

On this page, I have collected all the “Tips of the Day” that LibreOffice displays once a day when the program starts. A few notes: the lines are taken from the latest version of the program and will be updated as new versions of LibreOffice are released in some tips the text or link is missing – I checked the...

Where is the Normal.dotm analog for LibreOffice located

Posted by Alex On November 28, 2021

In the office suite MS Office there is such a concept as a template, for example, for Word this file is called Normal.dotm. In this template, you can customize styles, enter text, and make formatting settings. The saved template can replace the Normal.dotm file and then all newly created documents will have the properties made in the template. Alternatively, you...

How to boot into VirtualBox from USB

Posted by Alex On November 11, 2021

In this post I will tell you how to connect a USB disk (or USB flash drive) to a virtual machine so that the guest system treats it like a regular hard disk. This trick will allow you not only to boot from the installation USB – which is rather pointless. If you connect a USB disk or flash drive...

How to get web page content and cookies of .onion sites in Python

Posted by Alex On November 5, 2021

A program that receives data from the Tor network must work with cookies, for example, in the case of a parser, it can be cURL, PHP script, Python script, and so on. In the article “Web site parsing in command line” there is an example of working with cookies in cURL, but how to get the content of a web...

How to install the Active Directory PowerShell module on Windows Server, Windows 11 and Windows 10

Posted by Alex On October 29, 2021

The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell is one of the main tools for domain administration, managing objects in Active Directory, and getting various information about AD computers, users, groups, etc. Any Windows administrator should know how to use AD as a graphical snap-in (usually These are ADUC – Active Directory Users & Computers) and RSAT-AD-PowerShell cmdlets for performing day-to-day...

PowerShell with administrator rights: how to run and verify

Posted by Alex On October 28, 2021

How to run PowerShell as an administrator Some commands and cmdlets require elevated privileges. Examples of actions that require administrator rights are service management (install, start, stop, uninstall) and package management (add and remove package providers, install and remove packages). For example, the following cmdlet tries to add a new package provider: Install-PackageProvider chocolatey It will throw the following error:...

Full-text search in office files (Word) and archives – now it’s easy!

Posted by Alex On October 19, 2021

In the article “Full-text search for documents in a folder” we examined a way to search the contents of many office documents, including the exact match of the phrase. The considered method allows you to find the required file containing the required string without installing additional programs. But the method proposed in that note has disadvantages: search is slow, especially...

Full-text search for documents in a folder

Posted by Alex On October 19, 2021

What if you need to find a specific document among tens or hundreds? If you know the name of the document, then searching is quite simple – many programs, including the standard Windows Explorer, can search by file name. To find a file by name, open Windows Explorer (file manager), navigate to the folder where you want to search, and...