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		<title>Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 Provider Is Not Registered</title>
		<link>https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2025/09/microsoft-ace-oledb-12-0-provider-is-not-registered.htm</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert hashemian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OLEDB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SQL Server]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you are trying to import data from Microsoft Excel (2007-2010) into SQL Server and getting this error, The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0' provider is not registered on the local machine. (System.Data) it means Microsoft Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider 12.0 component is missing on your machine. Microsoft's site no longer offers the install file for that &#8212; <a class="moretag" href="https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2025/09/microsoft-ace-oledb-12-0-provider-is-not-registered.htm">Continue reading »</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>IPv6, The Silent Security Threat</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert hashemian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPv4]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPv6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Threats]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s plenty of material online on the IPv6 vs. IPv4 topic. Suffice it to say that IPv6 provides a gazillion times more addresses than IPv4, making the address space exhaustion a non-issue and obsoleting workarounds such as NAT that’s been used for many years to extend IPv4’s life. That’s the good news. With IPv6, you &#8212; <a class="moretag" href="https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2024/12/ipv6-the-silent-security-threat.htm">Continue reading »</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Opting out of PayPal’s Personalized Shopping</title>
		<link>https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2024/10/opting-out-of-paypals-personalized-shopping.htm</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert hashemian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 22:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PayPal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every now and again companies send their users updated terms of service, with the stipulation that the continuing usage of their services constitutes a tacit agreement to the new terms. These are usually long and boring documents filled with legalese and in most cases users simply ignore them. I have been guilty of that myself &#8212; <a class="moretag" href="https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2024/10/opting-out-of-paypals-personalized-shopping.htm">Continue reading »</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Moving, Migrating, or Exporting/Importing Windows 10 Network Locations</title>
		<link>https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2024/07/moving-or-exporting-importing-of-windows-10-network-locations.htm</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert hashemian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows10]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.hashemian.com/blog/?p=2811</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[I have been in the process of migrating my Windows 10 computer to a more muscular hardware. Instead of dealing with partition cloning, I made the decision to start everything from scratch and reinstall all applications. Some applications have decent export/import tools that do the job. In other cases, I must manually configure the new &#8212; <a class="moretag" href="https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2024/07/moving-or-exporting-importing-of-windows-10-network-locations.htm">Continue reading »</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Resize/Scale/Zoom Image or Photo Dimensions in Browser</title>
		<link>https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2023/12/resize-scale-zoom-image-or-photo-dimensions-in-browser.htm</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert hashemian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 22:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don’t recall if Picasa, the predecessor to Google Photos, had a way to shrink or enlarge photos, but Google Photos doesn’t have this feature. By shrink or enlarge I don’t mean changing the file size, I mean actually changing the dimensions of the entire photo, as in its height and width. For example, changing &#8212; <a class="moretag" href="https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2023/12/resize-scale-zoom-image-or-photo-dimensions-in-browser.htm">Continue reading »</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cloudflare DDoS Mitigation</title>
		<link>https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2023/09/cloudflare-ddos-mitigation.htm</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert hashemian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 21:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloudflare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DDoS]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.hashemian.com/blog/?p=2787</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[A part of my day job involves managing various servers and web services. There was a time that dealing with DDoS attacks was a mega stressful event that could last from hours to days. It generally involved waking up to the boss or team members or automated alarms messaging me about dead services, followed by &#8212; <a class="moretag" href="https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2023/09/cloudflare-ddos-mitigation.htm">Continue reading »</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Did Elon Musk Suspend My Twitter App?</title>
		<link>https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2023/05/did-elon-musk-suspend-my-twitter-app.htm</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert hashemian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 16:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.hashemian.com/blog/?p=2776</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[This blog runs on WordPress and, as evident, it’s updated infrequently, like one or two new posts per month. There are only a handful of plugins installed on it and one is used to auto-submit new posts to my low-activity Twitter account, @hashemian. In fact, the only activity on my Twitter account is the new &#8212; <a class="moretag" href="https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2023/05/did-elon-musk-suspend-my-twitter-app.htm">Continue reading »</a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Email Forwarding Fail and Return to The Legacy G Suite</title>
		<link>https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2023/03/email-forwarding-fail-and-return-to-the-legacy-g-suite.htm</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[robert hashemian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloudflare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G Suite]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[About a year ago Google announced the sunsetting of the Legacy G Suite product that was available free of cost to users who had signed up for it many years ago. The idea was to force the freeloaders to migrate to the paid Google Workspace service. Many users, myself included, were dismayed with the announcement, &#8212; <a class="moretag" href="https://www.hashemian.com/blog/2023/03/email-forwarding-fail-and-return-to-the-legacy-g-suite.htm">Continue reading »</a>]]></description>
		
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