Tag: Windows
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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 can use the Linux command line SCP directly from Windows: You can use this shortcut if you’ve already setup your SSH agent. There is unexplained…
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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 of this rather excellent piece of software. They’ve updated it to support newer hashing standards such as Once installed you can double click on .md5…
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SSH keygen best practice for cmder
Bang this into cmder. and then this Which will output something like this: You can then download this user-profile.cmd and place it in %CMDER_ROOT%\config\ There are plenty of good reasons why, but I won’t repeat these people’s work. Please read. Refs:
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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, but not so much in Windows. However, if you replace your command line with cmder instead, it’s a simple 3 step procedure. When you next…
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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 files stored in Google Photos/Drive and the otherwise excellent dupeGuru simply didn’t show the OnePlus 3 as a possible target for scanning. I ended up…
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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 – whatever you want to call it. When it comes to testing, it’s always sensible to see how things are going to be displaying in future…
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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 greatly distressed the graphic designer since it swapped the ” and @ symbols around on his keyboard and stopped him from typing £ easily (thanks…