Category Archives: windows

Sep
10
2011

Fixing write permissions for NFS Windows client

So after a recent Arch upgrade, Samba mysteriously stopped working, and I really wasn’t in the mood to troubleshoot what broke it. I have always disliked Samba (and CIFS as a whole), so was pleasantly surprised to learn an NFS client has been shipping with Windows for like, ever, now. After installing and configuring NFS in Arch [...]

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Jul
26
2011

Format selected text with AutoHotkey

In case you don’t know, AutoHotkey is an awesome GUI automation tool for Windows. I use it all the time to speed up monotonous stuff I usually do by hand. I’m not that proficient with the language, so it takes me a lot of searching and experimentation to get it to do what I want, [...]

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Apr
03
2011

SSH public key authentication on Windows 7 64-bit

So I’ve been struggling for the past 2+ hours trying to get something I’ve done a million times before to work in Windows 7 64-bit. Namely, public key passwordless authentication from a Windows SSH client to a Linux OpenSSH server. I need to have seamless logins without a password/passphrase because I’m using a headless VirtualBox [...]

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Oct
29
2010

Windows audio players

The first audio player I remember falling in love with (as much as you can love a software) was Sonique. It had a revolutionary UI for the time, and that was all that mattered. Winamp was the second obvious choice, and I used it for years (before the version 3 fiasco, and version “5″… before [...]

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Nov
01
2009

Eight reboots later…

…And I have upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Final and Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”. Things I’d like to see/do more of: Keep my data separate from the operating system. I keep separate partitions for all my documents and files. On Ubuntu this is simply a matter of having a /home partition and using it [...]

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