How to download a file from a remote Linux server via SCP in Windows using Cmder
If you’re working on Windows and you need to grab a file from a remote Linux server over SSH, make sure you use Cmder. Once you have Cmder extracted, you […]
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Hashcheck – the best way to calculate and verify checksums on Windows
HashCheck is the quickest and easiest way to verify downloaded files on Windows. Originally developed at code.kliu.org, HashCheck was left to languish for since 2009 until @gurnec took over stewardship […]
SSH keygen best practice for cmder
Bang this into cmder. mkdir %CMDER_ROOT%\config\.ssh and then this ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f %CMDER_ROOT%\config\.ssh\id_ed25519 Which will output something like this: Generating public/private ed25519 key pair. Enter passphrase […]
SSH without passwords in Windows using cmder
Being able to log into remote servers without remembering each unique password is one of the great things about the public-key system. In Linux this is pretty much expected behaviour, […]
Android, MTP and Windows programs
It’s frustrating how many older Windows programs handle MTP – they simply pretend it doesn’t exist. I wanted to dedupe some photos and videos between my OnePlus 3 and the […]
Run multiple Firefox versions simultaneously
Updated for 2017-10-31 When developing websites, I’ve found it incredibly useful to be able to run, or install, multiple versions of Firefox on the same computer, side-by-side, simultaneously, concurrently – […]
Forcing Windows 10 to update to version 1511 (build 10586) and solving the “A language pack isn’t available” problem
A Windows 10 Pro machine at work, that had been upgraded from Windows 8.1 Pro, was refusing the 2015 “November” update and also wouldn’t install the UK language pack. This […]