Category: Microsoft
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my 2017 Windows working environment
All these packages resp. utilities do not require Windows admin rights for getting them “installed” – actually they do not need “a Windows system installation”. Below C:\Users\jhayek I created a couple of subdirectories: opt: every package resp. utility has its own subdirectory below there bin: some .bat and .sh (BusyBox ash) scripts go there Packages resp. utilities:…
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Sysinternals’ “Autologon for Windows” — yet another nice utility
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/autologon.aspx Autologon enables you to easily configure Windows’ built-in autologon mechanism. Instead of waiting for a user to enter their name and password, Windows uses the credentials you enter with Autologon, which are encrypted in the Registry, to log on the specified user automatically. Autologon is easy enough to use. Just run autologon.exe, fill in…
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I diffed (GNU diffutils) two “.rdp” files (UTF-16), and I falsely got the impression these utilities properly deal with Unicode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol — originally from the Windows world RDP “provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection“ http://www.donkz.nl/files/rdpsettings.html — a(n) “.rdp” file keeps settings to start an RDP connection — because Emacs opens such files as text files, I had no idea they are not “classic” text files, instead (according to…
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nicer Windows terminals: ConEmu, Console2
ConEmu: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ConEmuTheWindowsTerminalConsolePromptWeveBeenWaitingFor.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60950/is-there-a-better-windows-console-window http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/ – 2017: moved … https://conemu.github.io Console2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/files/ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Console2ABetterWindowsCommandPrompt.aspx http://superuser.com/questions/122253/how-where-do-you-install-console2-on-windows-7
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Windows Sysinternals: Process Monitor — yet another fine Sysinternals utility
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 — their “Process Monitor” — requires admin privileges https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 — their “Process Explorer” — I have been using that utility so far, and I quite like it
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Windows Sysinternals: Process Explorer – a very nice utility to have on Microsoft Windows
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
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startup PuTTY’s authentication agent “Pageant” with private keys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pageant.exe – an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ssh-agent PuTTY’s authentication agent pageant combines the functionality of ssh-agent and ssh-add, and if you start it up, it makes sense to add the necessary private keys on its command line. You can do this using a script, but in Windows it’s convenient to does this…
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GNU Emacs for Microsoft Windows resp. Mac OS X
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596006488 – “Learning GNU Emacs“ The quoted book points for Mac OS X and Windows implementations exclusively to these web pages, but pls regard both as outdated: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nqmacs/ http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbonemacspackage.html Update: As of 2016-01 here are the best sites for Windows “Emacsen”: cygwin provides w32 and also X11 binaries — I am about to give them a try…
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My Reasons for Leaving .NET (towards Ruby) – Karthik Hariharan
My Reasons for Leaving .NET – Karthik Hariharan
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Microsoft responds to secure boot accusations – The H Open Source: News and Features
Windows will attempt to be the only OS on your computer. Microsoft responds to secure boot accusations – The H Open Source: News and Features: Company says it is not attempting block other operating systems and hopes customers will retain choices on how their systems boot