- apply for admin privileges on your laptop
- exploration
- which areas outside can you reach (and how: https, ssh, irregular ports)?
- CryptDrive (…)
- my home NAS
- HS
- which areas outside can you reach (and how: https, ssh, irregular ports)?
- Microsoft PowerToys
- … zones … (for splitting huge screens)
- Microsoft Sysinternals
- process explorer
- PuTTY
- ssh (already comes with Windows, but YOU NEED TO SET UP YOUR CONNECTIONS – e.g. for backing up YOUR FILES (diary, tools, git repositories, …))
- GNU Emacs
- Git Bash
- UNIX (AKA Linux) utilities
- perl
- git
- …
- xmlstarlet
- my own tool set
- create_snapshot.sh
- MEGA IMPORTANT: continuous automatic backup of YOUR FILES
- for as long as “automatic” is not yet possible and established
- the “emergency action” must get established (REMEMBER the c*m*l dr*v*r with his fierceful face expression and his kalashnikov!!!)
- backing up must get executed a couple of times each day
- TARring
- syncing
- maybe: “git archive”
- for as long as “automatic” is not yet possible and established
- …
- ??? busybox “w32”, preferredly with Unicode support
- WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux
- …
Blog
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my 2026 Windows working environment
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find when a phrase was added to a Wikipedia page
- https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/35906/find-when-a-phrase-was-added-to-a-wikipedia-page
- WikIBlame
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Who_Wrote_That%3F
Which version control systems had that feature before?
- RCS: no – apparently it’s available as an extension
- CVS: “annotate”
- svn: yes
- git: yes
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“Dev Container” – a Linux standard established by Microsoft? devcontainer.json
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/standardize-development-environment-with-devcontainers/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Codespaces – mentioned there (be aware: Microsoft owns GitHub)
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GitLab: migrating from git_data_dirs
They suggest, you move your storage configuration from git_data_dirs to gitaly[‘configuration’].
You should actually consider, whether you already use an assignment to gitaly[‘configuration’]. Otherwise your second assignment simply overwrites your first assignment, and you won’t see your repositories any more.
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installed Wordfence on my multisite WordPress today
The hint came from a mailing list, run by my web-space provider: operations-discussion.lists.hostsharing.net .
I am rather curious, whether this will help me fighting this warning:
…: [HS] Traffic-WarnungWho has been causing excessive traffic on my WordPress? Just guessing … – bots, that use my blogs for training AI software.
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table of keyboard shortcuts on Wikipedia: “refresh a webpage (ignoring cache)”
On Windows you achieve this using F5 resp. Ctrl-F5 (if you want to ignore the cache on purpose).
On MacOS that’s a little more complicated. Look it up on the page quoted above!
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book: Python for Excel Users
Go beyond basic spreadsheets with Python!
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Outlook – turning off automatic “Mark as Read” setting
- https://support.nenevalleypartnership.com/knowledge-base/outlook-turning-off-automatic-mark-as-read-setting/
- Outlook > Settings > Email > Message handling > “Don’t automatically mark items as read”
- in German: Outlook > Optionen > E-Mail > Outlook-Bereiche > Lesebereich… > “Element als gelesen markieren, wenn neue Auswahl erfolgt”
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Microsoft Windows PowerToys: “Always On Top” utility
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/always-on-top
- https://defkey.com/windows-11-shortcuts/win-ctrl-t-109516
This utility comes bundled with PowerToys.
Sometimes I hit the keyboard shortcut accidentally (Win+Ctrl+t). Having certain windows (e.g. a browser window will all its tabs) pinned like that results in conflicts with KeePass – you cannot make that window “the other window”, that KeePass pastes the credentials into. So I “always” have to find the shortcut to restore the ordinary state. That’s why this article is here.