Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/31
When searching for powershell ise indent tab, I came across this very nice post by rpscripter:
If one selects multiple lines, then pressing tab will indent them all. Pressing shift+tab will un-indent them all.
Yes, I know the PowerShell is limited, so the indents are tabs (not spaces) and you cannot change the tab size: Powershell ISE – change indent/tab size + keep tabs.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/10
Back when I wrote this mid 2013, this was the best Windows RDP overview article I could find: Best RDP client for Mac OSX Lion.
And it all got invalidated when finally (after years of silence), Microsoft released AppStore versions of the RDP client for both Mac OS X and iOS:
Microsoft Launches ‘Remote Desktop’ Apps for Mac and iOS – Mac Rumors.
So I tried the Mac App Store – Microsoft Remote Desktop that runs on OS X 10.6.0 or later for more than a year, and I like it a lot.
This is what the AppStore version improved over the classic Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection:
Just so you know about alternatives,
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/08
I never realized you could overwrite the CD pseudo environment variable. If you do, the automatic value of the pseudo variable will not be udpated any more:
You have at some point set the CD variable explicitly. If you do this it will no longer automatically reflect the current working directory. To undo this, set it to empty:
set CD=
Thanks Jonathan and … for explaining this in both your answers.
Thanks to another answer by Endoro I now also know of the %=C:% pseudo variable (you have one per drive letter) that indicate the current directory per drive letter.
–jeroen
via: batch file – When is the CD environment variable updated? – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/06
I just found this [Wayback] great answer (which by now regrettably is deleted; the previous Wayback link still has it) by [Wayback] Јοеу a.k.a. Johannes Rössel on [Wayback] What encoding/code page is cmd.exe using.
The whole answer is worth reading, so I won’t quote only some bits.
Edit 20210609: the answer now has been replaced by an even more detailed answer [Wayback] by [Wayback] andrewdotn. Also recommended reading. The summary of the new answer is this:
The moral of the story?
typecan print UTF-16LE files with a BOM regardless of your current codepage- Win32 programs can be programmed to output Unicode to the console, using
WriteConsoleW.- Other programs which set the codepage and adjust their output encoding accordingly can print Unicode on the console regardless of what the codepage was when the program started
- For everything else you will have to mess around with
chcp, and will probably still get weird output.
–jeroen
via: windows – What encoding/code page is cmd.exe using – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/03
Had to download a bunch of stuff over the command-line from an IIS server that was using authentication. Not basic authentication, but NTLM authentication.
wget kept failing, even wget 1.10 that usually does NTLM quite OK (but up to 1.10.2 has a security vulnerability so you should not use wget 1.10 any more).
So I installed a Windows x86 cURL binary, and downloaded+copied the root certificates, then did some reading on the command-line switches.
Without any, cURL does http basic authentication. But a Windows server usually expects NTLM authentication (hardly documented, but it uses the Negotiate protocol).
When not using NTLM, both would show (wget -d, or curl -v) this in the output, indicating you should use NTLM authentication: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/15
Ever wanted to put all your Windows installs on a bootable USB stick, but also add some Linux functionality?
It looks like YUMI can do just that.
On my research list (:
–jeroen
via: YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator (Windows) | USB Pen Drive Linux.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/04
Though I’ve written only a few blog posts about 7zip – my compressor of choice ever since I discovered 7zip some 10 years ago around version 3.13 (their history goes much further back: 1999) – here is a fresh one:
7zip is a fast, free, multi-platform and has great compression. No wonder Toms Hardware gave them an award last year: And The Undisputed Winner Is… 7-Zip.
For Windows, I take the downloads from 7-Zip: there are both x64 and x86 versions (x64 supports more memory so can handle bigger archives).
For Mac, I’ve been using Keka – the free Mac OS X file archiver. Both compressing and decompressing involve dragging the uncompressed or compressed files to the Keka dock icon.
That is slightly more involved than the context menu in Windows, but it works great.
For Windows command line usage, I use either 7za.exe or 7z.exe (uses DLLs, supports more compression)
For Mac command line usage, I use p7zip.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/01
When using Windows RDP you have the risk of a Shift key getting stuck.
This happens when press Ctrl and Shift. Make sure you release Shift first, otherwise Shift gets stuck.
Same with Alt and Shift: you have to release the Shift key first.
This is not a problem when using the OS X Remote Desktop application 8.x from Microsoft: only the Windows MSTSC.exe applications included in Windows 7 and higher suffer from this when you connect to Windows 7 and higher (including connecting from Windows to Windows Server and from Windows Server to Windows).
It does not happen with the MSTSC.exe in Windows 2000/XP and Windows Server 2003/2003 R2.
Results
Here are the important results:
- Press Shift and Control (either order) -> Release Shift -> Release Control: Normal state
- Press Shift and Control (either order) -> Release Control -> Release Shift: Problem state
Conclusion
RDP has a bug whereby the shift state incorrectly remains in the “pressed” state if, after pressing Shift+Control, the Control key is released first.
Bug reference
Bug is with Microsoft: https://connect.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/feedback/details/766863/rdp-shift-key-gets-stuck
And the comments there:
Pico Jeff7 November 2012 05:49You have described the exact same problem that I am having, only in my case it’s with RDP between two Win7 machines. […]
I have been using RDP for years without problems, until about 2 or 3 weeks ago when it suddenly starting going wrong.
Too bad the connect issue requires logon: I have no idea if this is ever going to be fixed.
–jeroen
via: davidbond.net: RDP Shift Key Gets Stuck.
Edit: some comments on G+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/15
Any web developer should know how to capture and trace HTTP traffic.
I’ve written about Fiddler before, but that’s a Windows specific tool.
Time to have a small list of posts and links to tools that work on various platforms.
I’ve left out Java based tools as there have been too many security issues with Java over the last couple of years.
Tools: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/14
F5 has become F8, and with Windows 8, a (sometimes automatic) reboot option, even for getting into the BIOS settings.
–jeroen
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