Better WSL terminal
In your search of a Linux terminal on Windows you might have stumbled across projects such as cmder and WSL. There are many more projects like those. Personally for me this was the only configuration (in this post) that ended...
Category: Windows
Chocolatey package manager for Windows
You will find a few similarities with Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) and linuxbrew (http://linuxbrew.sh/). Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/) is a similar package manager for windows. Installation Installation command is a little weird than other OS. Inside an administrative command prompt, type below >”%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command “iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString(‘https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1’))” && SET “PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin”...
Saving putty session
Here is how to save putty session on your windows machine Registry location of putty sessions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simontatham Exporting registry to .reg file regedit /e “%userprofile%\desktop\putty-registry.reg” HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simontatham To import? “Double click” More Turbocharge PuTTY with 12 Powerful Add-Ons – Software...
Remote X11 display on Windows machines
Xming X Server for Windows is required to open display from your remote *nix host. Xming URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/ X11 packages are required on remote machine Following settings may or may not be required on the remote machine to X11 to work...
Virtualbox Linux Guest display auto size non functioning
So you have setup Virtualbox guest additions on Linux (Mine was Linux mint 17.2) guest and the window size is not honored.. Did you change the display resolution manually? If so, you will now need to remove the monitor settings...
No network connection on Windows XP guest – VirtualBox
Problem due to no network driver for the Ethernet hardware. References https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16616 https://www.google.com/search?q=PRO2KXP.exe&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/8659/LAN-Intel-PRO-Network-Connections-LAN-Driver https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downloads/eula/8659/LAN-Intel-PRO-Network-Connections-LAN-Driver?httpDown=https%3A%2F%2Fdownloadmirror.intel.com%2F8659%2Feng%2FPRO2KXP.exe Related posts: Virtualbox Linux Guest display auto size non functioning Host-Only Networking With VirtualBox Download m3u8 URL video to local Shrinking VirtualBox VDI...
Shrinking VirtualBox VDI Files
Source: http://garethtuckercrm.com/2012/07/25/shrinking-virtualbox-vdi-files/ 1. Ran Disk Defragmenter within the VM and defrag’ed the disk. 2. Ran TreeSize Free within the VM to check for large files/folders that I could trim (didn’t find anything, but did notice the winsxs folder was huge, so did some research...
How to: Create and Use weak_ptr Instances
Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh279672.aspx Sometimes an object must store a way to access the underlying object of a shared_ptr without causing the reference count to be incremented. Typically, this situation occurs when you have cyclic references betweenshared_ptr instances. The best design is to avoid shared...
Memory layout of C program
A typical memory representation of C program consists of following sections. 1. Text segment2. Initialized data segment3. Uninitialized data segment4. Stack5. Heap A typical memory layout of a running process 1. Text Segment:A text segment , also known as a...
your system administrator does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer
This security measure could frustrating when you connect and disconnect a lot to the same (or many) terminal server. To get rid of it and to be able to use saved credentials in this situation you need to configure the...
