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Recovering a friend's photos from a failing drive with ddrescue
How ddrescue, a second FAT32 allocation table and PhotoRec helped recover photos from a failing 500 GB USB drive.
2026-10-01 · 13 min read
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Let Maximo shell tools accept spaces between options and values
A small Bash adapter turns -m /tmp/file.xml into the attached argument a legacy Maximo tool expects, making path completion easier.
2026-09-30 · 6 min read
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Decrypt Maximo passwords with the IBM DO YOU? tool
Use the IBM DO YOU? password decrypter to inspect Maximo native-authentication values individually or in bulk.
2026-09-29 · 6 min read
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Fix BMXAA9394E: Unable to add attributes to an unknown MBO
Remove a stale e-audit table reference from Maximo metadata when UpdateDB cannot add attributes to an unknown MBO.
2026-09-28 · 3 min read