Windows

Internet connection sharing (ICS)

Suppose a laptop can connect to the internt through wireless. We want to use its ethernet port to share internet on another device (e.g. raspberry pi where the device has only ethernet port).

1. control panel - network & sharing center
2. manage network connection
3. right click wireless network connection and select property
4. click 'sharing' tab and check 'Allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection'. For the home network connection, select 'Local Area Connection'.
5. reboot raspberry pi.

Access cloud storage

• Cyberduck
• GoodSync

Windows Power Shell

• Scraping the web using PowerShell 3

Windows 8

Keyboard shortcut.

• Ctrl+C: charm bar
• Ctrl+w: search

Securely transfer files to Linux on Windows command line

putty

Use psftp or pscp with a script.

Use winscp with script or in command line

See http://winscp.net/eng/docs/feature_index

C:\Program Files\WinSCP\winscp.exe" /console /script=YOUR_SCRIPT_FILENAME 

Example from http://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting#example

# Automatically abort script on errors
option batch abort
# Disable overwrite confirmations that conflict with the previous
option confirm off
# Connect using a password
# open sftp://user:[email protected] 
# Connect
open sftp://[email protected] 
# Change remote directory
cd /home/user
# Force binary mode transfer
option transfer binary
# Download file to the local directory d:\
get examplefile.txt d:\
# Disconnect
close
# Connect as a different user
open [email protected]
# Change the remote directory
cd /home/user2
# Upload the file to current working directory
put d:\examplefile.txt 
# Disconnect
close
# Exit WinSCP
exit

See http://wiki.vpslink.com/Automate_Backup_Retrieval_with_WinSCP#Test_WinSCP_Backup_Script for use winscp with Windows scheduler.

Putty with tabs

• Putty nd Works well
• MTPuTTY/Multi-Tabbed Putty Has a problem with cursor

Find public IP address

• http://superuser.com/questions/165986/command-prompt-command-for-external-ip
• http://superuser.com/questions/404926/how-to-get-my-external-ip-address-over-nat-from-the-windows-command-line

Create a VB script text file "ip.cbs" with a content like

Option Explicit
Dim http : Set http = CreateObject( "MSXML2.ServerXmlHttp" )
http.Open "GET", "http://icanhazip.com", False
http.Send
Wscript.Echo http.responseText   'or do whatever you want with it
Set http = Nothing

Open a command line and run

cscript ip.vbs

The output will look like

C:\Users\mli>cscript ip.vbs
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

2601:a:3780:5b:b856:6a09:3ea3:5e26

Notepad++

How to increase font size? Just hold Ctrl and use scroll wheel. See here. It even save the status when you restart Notepad++.

And for convenience, we can change the default language to R in Notepad++'s Settings.