The new Windows 10 preview has just been released, since I have an MSDN account I have just downloaded this and installed it in VMware. My initial impressions are very positive, the CMD window now can be resized at will just like a Linux xterm window. This is the version of Windows you will see … Read more
The rdesktop utility for Linux allows easy remote desktop access from a Linux machine. Type: sudo apt-get install rdesktop to install this useful utility and then type: rdesktop 192.168.100.5 to connect to a remote machine. Specify the username with the -u parameter: rdesktop -u homer 192.168.100.5. If you wish to use RDP in full-screen; enabling … Read more
Opening a Remote Desktop connection from Linux to Windows is very easy when you are using the Remote Desktop utility for the Gnome 3 desktop. This is a very easy RDP application for Linux. Below I am entering the details for a new connection. Just go to Applications->Internet-Remote Desktop Viewer to open this useful utility. … Read more
Themes. Oxygen GTK, a port of the KDE Oxygen theme to GTK: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+Gtk?content=136216. Aeri 5.0. This is a flat and light theme inspired by mobile and tablet operating system interfaces: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Aeri+?content=162303. Kawai. A very smooth and sleek KDE theme: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Kawai+%5BQtCurve%5D?content=141920. Descartes Breeze: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Descartes+Breeze?content=165578. Soft Metal: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Soft+Metal?content=120867. Lightning Unified QtCurve: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Lightning+Unified+QtCurve?content=155169. Polyester 1.0.4: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Polyester?content=27968. Skulpture: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Skulpture?content=59031. … Read more
The net command may be used to get information from a Windows PC. Below is an example. I am reading the time from a Windows 7 Ultimate PC. root@debian:/home/homer# net time -I 192.168.100.5 Fri Jul 11 11:22:32 2014root@debian:/home/homer# net time -I 192.168.100.5 Fri Jul 11 11:22:32 2014 This command shows the network shares that my … Read more
Windows 8.1 has a feature that not many people know about. You can press Win-PrtScr to take a screenshot and save it straight to the hard disk. The screenshots are saved in the Users/Homer/Pictures/Screenshots folder. This is a very useful way to take a screenshot and save it straight to the disk without having to … Read more
The fast boot feature of Windows 8.1 allows a user to load Windows faster than ever before; but this can interfere with the mounting of the Windows partition from Linux. This forces the user to mount the partition read-only. But if you use this command in a command prompt on Windows, this problem will go … Read more
There is an annoying bug on Windows Phone 8 that causes the songs on your phone to be duplicated multiple times in the playlists. I managed to fix this by only putting the songs on the phone memory and leaving the SD card for photos and video. That way my Nokia 520 does not have … Read more
HyperV Server is a standalone hypervisor that allows a machine to host server instances without the overhead of a server operating system like Server 2012 R2. Firstly, download the ISO image here: http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/3/4/7/347A95F0-A63C-492F-BE43-F376AE30C9FE/9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVERHYPERCORE_EN-US-HRM_SHV_X64FRE_EN-US_DV5.ISO. 1.6 Gigabytes. Then burn this at a slow speed to a suitable DVDR disk. Boot from the disk and choose to install … Read more
Windows Server 2012 R2 supports quite a few cmdlets that allow the user to gain quite a bit of information about the networking configuration of the server machine. Here are a few examples with output. This command: Get-NetAdapterHardwareInfo gets hardware information about your wireless adapters. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-NetAdapterHardwareInfo Name Segment Bus Device Function Slot … Read more
The route PRINT command shows the routing table. This gives some insight into your network connections. C:\Users\Administrator>route PRINT =========================================================================== Interface List 18…1e 0f 6e 5d e1 25 ……Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter 13…4c 0f 6e 5d e1 25 ……Qualcomm Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter 12…88 ae 1d 6d 09 bc ……Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet … Read more
This command lists the information about your user. C:\Users\homer>net user Administrator User name Administrator Full Name Comment Built-in account for administering the computer/domain User’s comment Country code 000 (System Default) Account active No Account expires Never Password last set 11/2/2006 11:08:15 PM Password expires Never Password changeable 11/2/2006 11:08:15 PM Password required Yes User … Read more
Windows XP, the venerable and trusty Windows operating system from Microsoft is still in use around the world. Despite the fact that Munich has switched their computers to the Linux operating system, Windows XP still has a foothold. My local library still runs Windows XP Professional SP3. This is dated 2002 and is obviously quite … Read more
Some very useful Powershell 4.0 cmdlets that are now available. Get-FileHash this gets the SHA256 hash of a file. PS C:\Users\Homer\Desktop> Get-FileHash .\scammers.png Algorithm Hash Path ——— —- —- SHA256 92E09BFBBAD2DF6E3FD329CB4AE5F15231AA12B869327706854F7DF9D106971B C:\Users\Homer\Desktop\scammers.pngPS C:\Users\Homer\Desktop> Get-FileHash .\scammers.png Algorithm Hash Path ——— —- —- SHA256 92E09BFBBAD2DF6E3FD329CB4AE5F15231AA12B869327706854F7DF9D106971B C:\Users\Homer\Desktop\scammers.png Save-Help This will download help content from a remote server … Read more
Nice Xfce4 themes for Xubuntu 13.10. Lubuntu XP theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Lubuntu+XP+three+flavors?content=162880. A Windows XP styled theme for Lubuntu. Windows 8 mouse cursor theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Win8E?content=160758. Vista styled Xfce4 theme: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Vista+Royale?content=59665. Matthew Farrell’s Theme 1.0: http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Matthew+Farrell%27s+Theme?content=99669. A nice theme that may be used with Xfce4 that looks like Matthew Farrel`s theme from Die Hard 4.0. Wallpapers. Beautiful Amanita … Read more
Support for Windows XP has ended, this means that there will be no further updates for Windows XP on the desktop. This is a good time to upgrade either to Windows 7, which is supported until 2020; or to use Linux Mint and enjoy a faster and more reliable desktop operating system. I am using … Read more
The support for Windows XP will end soon. April 8th in fact. This means that existing installations of Windows XP, and there are many around the world will be rendered vulnerable to exploits. Windows XP has been around since 2001 and it is time that is was replaced by something better. Windows 7 is still … Read more
Ubuntu 12.04 has proven to be more secure than Windows and Macintosh operating systems. This is not surprising though. The preponderance of Linux distributions based upon Debian is making it even easier for people to get started with computing. Ubuntu has always been a good choice for desktop computing, the easy to use desktop and … Read more
How to use the Remmina client to RDP to Windows from Linux. The Remmina RDP client allows a Linux user to log on remotely to a Windows computer. This is just like using the built-in RDP client on Windows. This is the main Remmina window. The new document icon with the green cross allows you … Read more
I have just installed FreeDOS and Windows 3.1 in qemu on Linux. Firstly; create a new HDD image to install DOS onto. qemu-img create -f qcow msdos.disk 85Mqemu-img create -f qcow msdos.disk 85M Then boot the FreeDOS CD image to begin the installation. qemu -hda msdos.disk -m 64 -cdrom fdbasecd.iso -boot dqemu -hda msdos.disk -m … Read more