- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PowerToys
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/fancyzones – PowerToys FancyZones – how to split my 4k screen into “zones”
- https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
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getent is a Unix command that helps a user get entries in a number of important text files called databases
The databases it searches in are: ahosts, ahostsv4, ahostsv6, aliases, ethers (Ethernet addresses), group, gshadow, hosts, netgroup, networks, passwd, protocols, rpc, services, and shadow.
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Microsoft Sysinternals ProcessExplorer: restore the original task manager after replacing it with ProcessExplorer
- https://superuser.com/questions/1320561/restore-the-original-task-manager-after-replacing-it-with-the-sysinternals-proce
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite – includes Process Explorer, the PsTools suite of command-line utilities, and a lot more
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pstools – PsTools – suite command-line utilities
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Tracking Personal Finances Using Python by Siddhant Goel – Beancount
Learn how to build a privacy-aware and developer-friendly workflow using Python to keep track of your personal finances.
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Unix, Linux: how to do a proper and secure file transfer in a cronjob
I got advised to do sftp with an empty passphrase. I got that working. Was pretty straight forward. But is there a better way? With a non-empty passphrase? But how to deal with that passphrase?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ssh-agent
- https://linuxhandbook.com/transfer-files-ssh/
- https://www.tecmint.com/ssh-passwordless-login-using-ssh-keygen-in-5-easy-steps/
- my buzzword web search: ssh file transfer best practice
I do my ordinary SSH handling with an SSH agent, and I feel quite confident with that. But I yet have to find out about best practice of SSH-based “file transfers in the background”.
“sftp with an empty passphrase” is what I use for now.
On the target side the account gets a chroot-ed environment through a directive in sshd_config. But the chroot-ed environment gets linked via “mount –bind” into a useful and not so much restricted environment.
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how to disable vim syntax colour?
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/339092/how-to-disable-vim-syntax-color
- http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html
Of course I like colours – in nature, on people, wherever … – but some colour schemes on computer displays are hard too read – some are awkward or ugly.
I am glad, there is a short way to get rid off these colours in VIM.
In order to tell a shell console to operate b&w, simply switch the environment variable TERM to xterm.
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creating a line break in Messages for Mac
On the Mac, if you want to create a line break in the macOS Messages app by holding down the OPTION key and then hit RETURN to jump to a new line without sending the message.
https://osxdaily.com/2014/07/05/type-new-line-break-messages-ios/I wondered for years, how that would work – always too lazy to look for a solution – now I finally wanted to migrate away from Facebook Messenger to something nicer as a communication channel with a very special friend (outside Germany and not using Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram) – and the above link (resp. text from 2014) got displayed as the 1st result – proper query, proper results 🤩 (“Star-Struck” AKA “Grinning Face with Star Eyes”)
BTW:
Users can tell the difference between a message sent via SMS and one sent over iMessage as the bubbles will appear either green (SMS) or blue (iMessage).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messages_(Apple)I know …, all this only drives me more and more into the Apple jail – but it is so intriguing.