Reinstalling Sanity windows

windows:colemak

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

UK Colemak American Colemak varients are available for download if not already included in your OS, but regional variations are much thinner on the ground than personally customised versions. So let's contribute to that trend! "Standard" UK Colemak Variants

windows:cygwin

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

Installing ssh on Windows 7 Start a bash shell as Administrator ssh-host-config Answer yes to everything except “Do you want to use a different name?” Enter a password when prompted. Start the server (still as Administrator) with net start sshd

windows:firefox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-01-16T19:20:23+00:00

Multi-row tabs (>70ish)

windows:gems

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

Installing Cygwin with Ruby is easy enough. Avoid installing Ruby in Windows as well because it results in a mulch of confusion further down the line. Gems is pure ruby, so not that hard to install from within Cygwin: * Download gems from RubyForge:

windows:keymaps

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

Aim * Swap (left) control and caps lock * Swap “ and @ Rationale Caps lock and control If you are used to the standard keyboard layout, the most likely reason for wanting to move the control key is to avoid RSI in your left wrist. If you use ctrl-combinations often, particularly with letters towards the left of the keyboard, you will find yourself bending your wrist sharply for extended periods, which often causes pain in the left hand, wrist and lower arm. Various old school systems u…

windows:linux

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-08-13T12:16:38+00:00

WSL 2 As of 13.8.21, WSL 2 is also available, with a currently more complicated install: WSL 2 uses a virtual machine in order to run the actual Linux kernel, this is meant to improve performance across the board. Probably best to use this. Resolve issues: as of Aug 2021 the WSL machine can connect to external IPs but not resolve names.

windows:multi-row_tabs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-04-24T11:51:38+00:00

Pull the latest version of the repo with GitHub Desktop (all set up on Cornelius). If that fails, see if the config in userChrome.css needs to be tweaked. For a new machine: (setup) (but install with git to make updating easier).

windows:ntfs-3g_permissions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

windows:office_macros

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

Microsoft Office Macros Word Increment and Save Increment revN at the end of the filename of the current file and save it. Sub IncrAndSave() ' ' Increment the revision number and save ' ' ActiveDocument.Name Dim myfilename, currentfilename, nstr, newno, x, y, z As String Dim a, b, c, n As Integer Dim rev As Boolean ' this strips the extension from the filename currentfilename = CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject").getbasename(ActiveDocument.Name) Set Re…

windows:ruby

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

In response to the following error: ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError) Unset the RUBYOPT environment variable in order to disable gems for the rest of the session export RUBYOPT='' Then install gems.

windows:sansa

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

Sansa Clipp does not play .mp4 or .m4a which are used by iTunes. Software for converting .mp4 or .m4a to .mp3 whilst preserving tags: M4A MP3 Converter Software for adding tags or renaming .mp3s using filenames: tag&rename

windows:ssh_server

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-11-07T17:58:12+00:00

ssh-host-config *** Query: Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes net start sshd mkpasswd -cl > /etc/passwd mkgroup --local > /etc/group Remember logins are case-sensitive: if your username is Dan on XP then you can't log in as dan.

windows:windows_task_scheduler

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-01-13T14:21:44+00:00

Windows Task Scheduler Based on : * Open Task Scheduler * Create Basic Task... (right action bar) * Action: start a program * Program/script: C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe * Arguments: /home/slack/bin/whatever_backup_script.sh * Check “