Flashing Wemos D1 mini pro is not that easy if the cable is not right

Problem

I cannot flash the new Wemos D1 mini pro USB-C version. The device is not recognized by Windows.


Solution

The change of USB-C cable helped. On the old cable,

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Mystery issue, simple solution - a story about upgrading to Windows 10

Problem

During the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 installation keeps failing with the message:

0x8007025D-0x2000c . The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during APPLY_

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I'm back!

Hello again! After 4.5 years finally, I was able to bring this blog back to life. Sorry that it was down for such a long period. It was deployed

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Copying terabyte of data from hard drive to Google Drive in Ubuntu - story of how I loved Rclone

Problem

There is need to sync/copy files from hard drive to Google Drive. Unfortunately for us sum of this files sizes is around 1TB. What you do?

Machine: Ubuntu

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Mendeley and Office 2007 - what could go wrong?

Problem

After installation of Mendeley Microsoft Word plugin in Office 2007 there are problems with inserting a bibliography.

Adding some citations and clicking on 'Insert Bibilography' creates bibliography with header

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Using GitLab Container Registry in AWS ECS - this took me a while...

Problem:

We want to use GitLab Container Registry in AWS ECS as private Docker images registry from which we would deploy our applications.

After creation of new ECS cluster based

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When fiancé wants to play The Sims 3 on fresh Windows 7

Problem:

After installation of The Sims 3 and first run, wild message appeared:

The program can’t start because MSVCP100.dll is missing from your computer.
Try reinstalling the program

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Do you remember that motherboard has CR2032 battery?

Problem:

Windows cannot boot up. After start of computer there is information:

Time-of-day not set - please run SETUP program.

Then on Windows boot screen animation only two dots can

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