Windows

Howto remove unused device drivers from Windows XP

I had a problem with a network card this weekend. It wasn’t possible to get it to work because of a conflict with another hardware or its drivers. After doing some google’ing I stumbled over this link explaining how to remove unused device drivers from Windows XP Just follow these steps to view and remove […]

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Scripting

Rename file extension recursively

This is a simple bash script to rename all JPG file extensions to JPEG, it works recursively and takes subfolders also. #!/bin/bash function rename_extension { #change all .jpg to .jpeg for file in $1/*.jpg; do mv $file $1/`basename $file .jpg`.jpeg; echo $file; done; # recurse directories for d in $1/*; do if test -d $d; […]

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Windows

My custom putty settings

This is a quick note of my custom putty settings in Windows Category: Session Connection type: SSH Category: Window Lines of scrollback: 20000 Category: Window > Appearance Font: Lucida Console, 9-point Font quality: ClearType Gap between text and window edge: 3 Category: Window > Translation Character set: UTF-8 Handling of line drawing characters: Unicode Category: […]

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Linux

apt-show-versions

apt-show-versions is a Debian tool that lists available package versions with distributions. This is really useful if you have a mixed stable/testing environment and want to list all packages which are from testing and can be upgraded in testing. This package is not installed automatically so you have to install it your self apt-get install […]

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