Tag: Windows
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Vim Airline Powerline fonts on Fedora, Ubuntu and Windows
N.B. I’ve also answered this on Vi Stack Exchange, but I’m posting it here as it took a lot of work. This took hours to figure out, so here’s more of a dummies guide for Fedora/Ubuntu, with a special section for Windows. The first is figuring out what the hell are those strange but nice…
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Installing Haskell ++ Emacs on Windows
Haskell Firstly install the haskell-stack chocolatey package: choco install -y haskell-stack For me that perfectly installed haskell and meant that I could run stack commands and have stack ghci running in a DOS prompt. Emacs Chocolatey has an Emacs package: choco install -y emacs This puts the emacs binaries into the chocolatey bin directory. Then…
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Jupyter on Windows with Chocolatey
Install Python This is a quick post (and will probably be outdated quickly), but it took me a while to get it correct. I wanted to install Jupyter on Windows. The recommeded route is via Anaconda but I like to use Chocolatey the Windows package manager as much as possible. I used Chocolatey to install…
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Dos command history
One of the nice things of Linux is the command history – it stores typically the last 1000 commands or so and its saved every time you log out. DOS does have this through the doskey /history command (but only for current session) and you can relatively easily append this to a file: This file…
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OpenVPN connects to VPN but no internet
For those stumbling down a similar path… tldr; Check that your Windows Firewall is turned off. My setup OS: Windows 8.1 64-bit laptop OpenVPN: OpenVPN 2.3.4 x86_64-w64-mingw32 My OpenVPN has been working for at least 4 months without problem. First thing to remind yourself is: When you get the VPN working – copy the OpenVPN…
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Windows Netbeans Composer notes
This is for installing the main packages that Netbeans suggests in the Tools > Options > PHP (tab) I’m running the following setup currently [21st April 2015]: Windows 8.1 (64-bit) Netbeans 8.0.2 The version of Composer doesn’t really matter PHP 5.3.28 (It’s sooo last decade, I know…) tldr; Just the commands: Then the files to…
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ntwdblib download
For years I have had problems running the mssql driver. Its getting phased out – i.e. it doesn’t work with PHP 5.3 but if you have to support older applications then you need to use the mssql driver. The problem is, is that the default installation of PHP 5.2 (currently PHP 5.2.17) which you can…
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Installing Ubuntu on Windows
It really is getting quite easy to install Ubuntu onto a computer from Windows now – especially if you’re not trying to Dual-boot. But if you do want to Dual boot, you’d still do the following but you have to partition your hard-drive first (which is remarkably tricky). Installall Ubuntu onto a USB stick UNetbootin…
Ian Channing 