After having to look this up a third time, I found a post on Vonnie’s blog about it. I made a copy here. In short, Microsoft fucked up and you’re left with the command line to do this, unless the wireless network is in range. The following commands list all the WIFI networks you have […]
It seems VMware has removed the GUI for the disk shrink feature in VMware Tools, but the good news is it’s still available from the console. The following command will shrink the disk image for drive C: “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareToolboxCmd.exe” disk shrink c:\
The simplest way I’ve found so far: Edit /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart to append: @xset -s off @xset -dpkm @xset s noblank
Programs like virt-manager and gedit commonly use dbus. Dbus running will prevent a clean exit of ssh -X, making it hang on exit until you press ctrl+c or kill dbus manually. To avoid having to kill dbus manually, let’s kill it automatically 🙂 Now, normally if I want to run virt-manager (or anything else graphical) […]
On a single user desktop, you might want to run cygwin sshd autostarted as a specific user, without privilege separation. Here’s a short reference: Disable UAC Open a Cygwin terminal ssh-host-config Select “no” on privilege separation Enter nothing, [], as the value of CYGWIN for the daemon Select “yes” to use a different username than […]
While Windows 7 let you disable UAC by simply typing “UAC” into the search field on the start menu and disabling it from the UAC options that show up, Windows 8 made it a bit more complicated. In short, press Windows+R, type secpol.msc, go to “Local Policies => Security Options” and set “User Account Control: […]
You need to install XP SP3, available here for English versions.
ghacks.net has an excellent article on how to do this. I archived it here.
geirha in #bash on irc.freenode.net had this solution, which I rather liked and wanted to keep for later use: hybrid_getopts.bash
If you’ve exhausted all other options, it might be time to compile from source, even in Debian. If you’re about to do that though, don’t abandon the concept of .deb files and the advantages they bring with versioning and easy removal. Use “checkinstall“. Checkinstall is in the standard Debian repositories and encapsulates your install into […]