The name says it all; this program makes it easy to get all of the GnuWin32 goodness (no more tedious individual downloads).
Tag: Windows
OldChromeRemover
OldChromeRemover removes old copies of Chrome that are doing nothing but wasting disk space on your Windows machine.
Capturing all output in MS-DOS
Seems like there is not a single example out there showing how to run Tomcat in MS-DOS and capture all of its output. I sure didn’t know how, and don’t remember the post that told me.
catalina run > ..\logs\console.log 2<&1
UltraVNC Seems to Work Best for Windows to OSX
For connecting Windows to OSX via VNC; UltraVNC seems to work the best.
The other clients drop frequently.
A Friendlier Powershell Prompt
function prompt {
$user = [Environment]::UserName;
$computer = gc env:computername;
$dir = [Environment]::CurrentDirectory=(Get-Location -PSProvider FileSystem).ProviderPath;
$user + "@" + $computer + ":" + $dir + ">"
}
This post helped with the last part.
A binary for Io on Windows
Fixing Octave's Plot on the Windows 3.2.4 Release
Out of the box a lot of us Windows users who added all of the Octave-Forge packages are disappointed to find that the plot function produces an invisible window.
Here is the problem and solution:
Realistic solution at this moment, do not install the oct2mat package when you install octave with octave-forge packages if you do not use this package. One one of different solutions is to execute
pkg rebuild -noauto oct2mat
at the octave prompt and then restart octave. The operation results in the oct2mat package not to be auto-loaded in startup. When you want to use oct2mat, execute “pkg load oct2mat” command.
(via octave-forge, via octave-bugs)
Updated: Switching Caps Lock with Control on Windows
See here.
Microsoft AntiVirus is Free for Windows XP
Microsoft AntiVirus is free and it works for Windows XP:
Yes. You can install Microsoft Security Essentials on XP and Win 7.
—RickImAPC
Awesome.
ImgBurn for Windows is Excellent
Here is a great disc-burning application for MS Windows called ImgBurn. Works great “out of the box” and is free, which doesn’t reflect its utility or value at all.
I will only share additionally that I’ve tried two free and two commercial application, which I won’t name for fear of any publicity that it would generate for them, that ultimately would fail due to pretty simple scenarios like a disc not being loaded in the disc-drive.