Month: September 2017
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Microsoft Windows: Unlock Virtual Desktops on Windows 7 or 8 With This Microsoft Tool
https://www.howtogeek.com/195962/unlock-virtual-desktops-on-windows-7-or-8-with-this-microsoft-tool/
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“ssh -Y” fails moaning “X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0” – solved!
$ ssh -v -Y REMOTE_HOST […] debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Requesting authentication agent forwarding. X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0 I looked around and I found this article: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-fix-x11-forwarding-request-failed-on-channel-0/ The article advises to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the remote system: $ sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config and to add these lines: X11Forwarding yes…
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the free “Pro Git” book, 2nd ed.
https://git-scm.com/book https://github.com/progit/progit2 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1484200772 https://www.amazon.de/dp/1484200772
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GitLab – the GitHub competitor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab https://about.gitlab.com As opposed to GitHub (GitHub_Desktop) apparently they do not have a proprietary GUI tool – and propagate it.
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cygwin’s cp fails mentioning cygatttr-1.dll
…/opt/cygwin64/bin/cp.exe: error while loading shared libraries: cygattr-1.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I wasn’t able to find a viable fix on the web. I found a copy of that file in in old installation, and I copied that into the cygwin bin directory – the cygwin64 and the non-64 one…
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installing Cygwin on Windows without having admin rights
https://superuser.com/questions/229477/installing-cygwin-on-windows-xp-without-having-the-admin-rights I like the “-B” (“–no-admin”) command line approach best: .\setup-x86_64 –no-admin
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DMOZ, dmoztools.net, curlie.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:DMOZ#Renaming_to_Curlie http://www.dmoz.org – closed as of 2017-03-14 https://dmoztools.net – just a static mirror – currently “site:www.dmoztools.net …” is possible on DuckDuckGo and Google https://www.curlie.org – just a static mirror so far, but apparently going to be searchable in the future – currently no “site:www.curlie.org …” search on DuckDuckGo and Google
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Oracle SQL Developer – how to run it on Windows in English w/o admin rights?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7768313/how-can-i-change-the-language-to-english-in-oracle-sql-developer https://stackoverflow.com/a/24532448/3119172 I chose the approach “set language at runtime“: sqldeveloper.exe –AddVMOption=-Duser.language=en Works like a charm. On the Win7 PC at work I have no admin rights, therefore I cannot change the config file mentioned in the thread.
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tramp says: “Cannot find local copy program: pscp” – but that does not mean there is something wrong with your emacs/tramp/PuTTY set-up
Every now and then I come across this error message: Cannot find local copy program: pscp This only occurs for “bigger” files (e.g. a 40k file), not for small files, because small files are being dealt with by plink. tramp-do-copy-or-rename-file-out-of-band (in lisp/net/tramp-sh.el) tries to find the copy-program on exec-path instead of PATH, so we have…
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ldapsearch – and all the line wrapping
modern versions of ldapsearch support this: -o ldif-wrap=no http://dbocklandt.be/networking/ldapsearch-without-all-the-line-wrapping/ – for old versions