Windows
Install IIS on Windows 7/Vista
Install ubuntu on my 64GB USB drive
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
$ df -h Filesystem Size Mounted on /cow 3.9G / udev 3.9G /dev tmpfs 1.6G /run /dev/sdb1 61G /cdrom /dev/loop0 672M /rofs tmpfs 3.9G /tmp none 5.0M /run lock none 3.9G /run/shm
If we check the drive's partition table using gpart, we will see the drive has only a fat32 partition.
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).
- control panel - network & sharing center
- manage network connection
- right click wireless network connection and select property
- 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'.
- reboot raspberry pi.
When my host machine is xubuntu, the guest machine (raspberry pi) shows eth0 has ip 10.42.0.37 and the host machine shows
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:19:ea:10:3d
inet addr:10.42.0.1 Bcast:10.42.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:19ff:feea:103d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:383 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:19038 (19.0 KB) TX bytes:85493 (85.4 KB)
Interrupt:43 Base address:0x2000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:972 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:972 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:90336 (90.3 KB) TX bytes:90336 (90.3 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:c4:62:a0:35
inet addr:192.168.1.153 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2601:a:3780:6a:217:c4ff:fe62:a035/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::217:c4ff:fe62:a035/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: 2601:a:3780:6a:a4b9:d314:4790:a0a1/64 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6300 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4812 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6042745 (6.0 MB) TX bytes:659980 (659.9 KB)
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$
Access cloud storage
Windows Power Shell
Keyboard shortcut
Windows 8
Keyboard shortcut.
- Win + C: charm bar
- Win + w: search
VLC
- +/-: faster/slower speed
- Alt + arrow keys: skip 10 seconds by forwarding/backwarding
- Ctrl + arrow keys: skip 1 minute
- Ctrl + Alt + arrow keys: skip 5 minutes
- Ctrl + Up/Down: Volume
- M: mute
- F: full screen
- space bar: toggle play/pause
- A: toggle aspect ratio
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
- On windows, open a command prompt. Type 'ipconfig' and look at IPv4 Address. But 'ipconfig' cannot show only one adapter. Another choice is netsh
x <- shell('netsh interface ip show addresses "Local Area Connection"', intern = T)
y <- strsplit(x[grep("IP Address", x)], " ")[[1]]
y[length(y)]
# [1] "xxx.xx.xx.xxx"
PATH copy copy
http://pathcopycopy.codeplex.com/
PATH environment variable
In R, by using strsplit() and shell() functions we can quickly get the information of the PATH environment variable.
> x = shell("PATH", int = TRUE)
> strsplit(x, ";")
[[1]]
[1] "PATH=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VNI\\imsl\\fnl600\\Intel64\\lib"
[2] "C:\\Program files\\MPICH2\\bin"
[3] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VNI\\imsl\\fnl600\\IA64\\lib"
[4] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VNI\\imsl\\fnl600\\IA32\\lib"
[5] "C:\\Program files\\MPICH2\\bin"
[6] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\ComposerXE-2011\\redist\\intel64\\mkl"
[7] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\ComposerXE-2011\\redist\\ia32\\mkl"
[8] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\ComposerXE-2011\\redist\\intel64\\mpirt"
[9] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\ComposerXE-2011\\redist\\intel64\\compiler"
[10] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\ComposerXE-2011\\redist\\ia32\\mpirt"
[11] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\ComposerXE-2011\\redist\\ia32\\compiler"
[12] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Intel\\ComposerXE-2011\\compiler\\lib"
[13] "C:\\Windows\\system32"
[14] "C:\\Windows"
[15] "C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wbem"
[16] "C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\"
[17] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\QuickTime\\QTSystem\\"
[18] "C:\\Program Files\\cvsnt"
[19] "C:\\Program Files\\ActivIdentity\\ActivClient\\"
[20] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ActivIdentity\\ActivClient\\"
[21] "C:\\Program Files\\TortoiseSVN\\bin"
[22] "C:\\graphviz\\i386\\bin"
[23] "C:\\graphviz\\x64\\bin"
[24] "C:\\gtk\\bin"
[25] "C:\\gtksourceview\\bin"
[26] "C:\\libxml2\\bin"
[27] "C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\Downloads\\binary"
[28] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Miktex\\miktex\\bin\\"
[29] "C:\\Pandoc\\bin"
An open source program to edit PATH variable is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pathtool/
On my computer, I need to open a Windows prompt with admin privilege and then type 'sysdm.cpl' in order to change the PATH variable.
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.
Visual Studio 2010
- Create simple form using VS C++ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8E4C0zbIHA
Cygwin
For something we cannot find a good Windows version of program; for example, cvs client. See my notes in Linux page.
Youtube
Use desktop client like minitube which can eliminate the ads and allows downloading videos.
Toggle mute sound
- free utility called nircmd http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.zip
- create a shortcut: "C:\Michal\Code\Mute Sounds\nircmd.exe" mutesysvolume 2
- set up shortcut key by right click the shortcut and choose property
Mind mapping software
- Free mind
- Mindmap (web based)
- MindMup (web based). It can export to Freemind .nm format. No registration is required.
MS-Office
Excel print the header row on each page
http://www.guidingtech.com/17822/print-first-row-column-every-excel-page/
- Click page layout tab on the ribbon
- Switch to the tab for Sheet and spot the section for Print titles. It hosts a row and a column option.
- In the 'Rows to repeat at top', enter '$1:$1'.
Done!
How to freeze a row or column in Excel
http://www.howtogeek.com/166326/how-to-freeze-and-unfreeze-rows-and-columns-in-excel-2013/
Avoid change simple quote to smart quote (autoformatting) in Word
Uncheck two options in Options -> Proofing -> Autoformatting. https://www.simple-talk.com/blogs/2011/11/09/how-to-stop-office-2010-changing-and-to-smart-quotes/
Folder synchronization
rsync from cygwin
Give a permission error when the target is a network drive
Windows sync toy
For some reason, it does not find the missing files so it does not copy files from source to target.
Another bad thing is there is no way to uninstall it.
FreeFileSync
http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/
For some reason, I cannot download it successfully. If I manually copy it from a linux machine to windows, it just get deleted. Probably there is a security reason.
Unison
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
I download Windows binary version. However, it does not work. It depends on GTK but it still complain it cannot find libgtk-win32-2-0.0.dll even I downloaded/installed/change PATH variable.
DirSync
http://sourceforge.net/projects/directorysync/?source=recommended (NO installer is there)