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How to Fix Paper Capture Recognition Service Errors 10001 in Acrobat
If you're stuck in Adobe Acrobat, you'll need to fix Paper Capture recognition service errors before you can make changes to your PDF. The error pops up after you try to edit a scanned PDF document or export a PDF document into another file format, like Word. The full...
My CompTIA Project+ PK1-005 Beta Exam Experience
After seeing a few emails on the CompTIA Project+ PK1-005 beta exam and Brian Callahan's experience with the Project+ beta exam, I decided to take the plunge. It was a snap decision that gave me a week to prepare. I took the exam this morning, the last day to take the...
How to Land Your First Cybersecurity Job – The Ultimate Guide
Trying to break into the cybersecurity field when you are on the outside may seem like a dismaying task. With so many qualified candidates vying for a limited number of positions, it can be tricky to land your first cybersecurity job in the industry. However, there...
IT Nerds: Essential Soft Skills for Your Career Success
Soft skills can mean the difference between success and failure in your career, especially the IT industry. Soft skills will help you interact better with coworkers and clients and will make you a more well-rounded employee. Soft skills can be learned and developed...
Just Failed the CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-001 Today With a Month of Study
It happened. After a 20-year win streak, I barely failed my first exam. I take full responsibility for this as I underestimated the breadth of the exam and didn't fully prepare as much as I should have. Since I failed, I can no longer use this exam to update my...
Synology NAS Package Center Doesn’t Connect
You go to your Package Center and your packages don't load at all. The error is Connection failed. Please check your network and time settings. The problem is the URLs required by the Package Center can't be resolved. There are a few issues that can cause this. They...
CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-001 Home Lab Setup
If you are interested in any pen testing certification, especially CompTIA's PenTest+ (my cert pick for 2021), you need to be able to practice. In this home lab setup, I mostly followed guidance from Michael Solomon's LinkedIn Learning PenTest+ Learning Path and...
CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-001 Study Notes
Welcome to the CompTIA PenTest+ PT0-001 exam study notes. You know the type of study guides to expect by now. Prepare for a wall of formatted text. The information in this guide is organized by the PT0-001 exam objectives and contains information from Michael...
Why I Switched Back From Notion to Evernote
I started Evernote back in 2014. It didn't take long to fall in love and completely change my approach to note taking. Previously I had used OneNote to get me by. When Notion came along and I saw all of the features available, I had to try it out. I didn't intend to...
NAS Hard Drive Disappears From Synology Storage Pool
Upon entering your office, you hear beeping from your NAS. You log in to DSM and see that there is an alert that a drive has been removed, causing a System Partition Failure. The problem is the drive was never removed. To get the missing drive to show back up again,...
Some Services Can’t Reach Internet With Unbound
If you recently changed your Unbound configuration and now you can't access the Internet, you can verify Unbound is behaving properly by doing the following two things: Verify Unbound is actually running.Verify your configuration is actually running. This was tested...
Raspberry Pi Web Interfaces Don’t Connect After OpenVPN Killswitch Script Install
I had an interesting interaction when using DietPi. I turned on the killswitch option in the VPN section and suddenly I couldn't access the web interface for any installed package on the Raspberry Pi. It looks like DietPi didn't include scripts to automatically...
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