Grub fails to boot with Windows 8 UEFI after installing Fedora 20. The Grub entry for Windows 8 is: menuentry ‘Windows Boot Manager’ { chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi boot } How to fix it? The set root= is missing. You probably can fix this by specifying the root manually: menuentry ‘Windows Boot Manager’ { insmod part_gpt set…
How to erase disk partitions on U disks on Windows? Check the HDD LLF low level format tool: http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ It is free for personal usage. Run it as Adminiatrator and you can choose to erase partitions and MBR on the U disks. Be careful that the operation is is recoverable.
SSH tunnel and port forwarding is great and convenient to use. But is it possible to set up a VPN like connection over SSH? If you are on Linux or Mac, you can use sshuttle: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle If you are on Windows, you can use ProxyCap: http://www.proxycap.com/index.html Both are great software.
How to install IE under wine on Linux? Just need it for some testing. Do not want to reboot to Windows. We ever had ies4linux. But it is obsoleted now. linie is the latest effort. But there are issues and you may need to fix some problems by yourself. Installing a Windows VM may be…
The default Alt-Tab in Gnome 3 switches among applications and windows are grouped by application. How to make Alt-Tab switch among windows instead of applications in Gnome 3? Check the Alternate Tab Gnome 3 extension and you will love it. Substitute Alt-Tab with a window based switcher that does not group by application. This extension…
How to change default OS for windows dual boot manager in Windows 7? The c:/boot/ in older Windows does not exist anymore. Open the Control Panel and click on the System icon. In the left pane, click on the Advanced system settings link. Under the Advanced tab, click on the Settings button under Startup and…
dd is a handy tool on Linux. But is it possible to run it on Windows? I find the dd in cygwin works very well for me. It provides as almost (if not the same) functions as the dd on Linux. The disks are specified in /dev/ as on Linux. This solution means: you need…
How to manually set the boot entry for Windows in grub2? Suppose that your Windows is installed on the first partition of the first disk (hd0,1) (yes, it’s right, that is (hd0, 1) if your distribution has not modified grub2’s default behavior) in NTFS format. You can boot your Windows in grub2 by: insmod ntfs…
How to set Internet Explorer’s Proxy in command line on Windows 7? You can use this tool: SetProxy. On Windows 7, it works still to set IE’s proxy. Note that the proxy setting is for IE only. If you need to configure the proxy for other services like Windows Update or other programs that use…
What’s the error code conventions on Linux and Windows? Linux and Windows use 0 to indicate that the operation is successful and an integer that is larger than 0 for some errors. Linux System Error Codes On Linux, the system error codes is defined in 2 headers which you can find on your own box:…
I am tired of the non-efficient “Print Screen” -> Paste in Paint -> Save way. How to efficiently take screenshot on Windows 7? On Windows 7 and later ones, the “Snipping Tool” is handy. Press the “Win” key and input “snipping tool”. The tool will appear in the menu. You can select the whole window,…
How to mount Ext4 partitions from Linux in Windows in read-only mode? Read-only is required to ensure safety. Mounting is required so that traditional programs can use the partition without any changes. Ext2Fsd is a great tool for this. Ext2Fsd is a file system driver which allows accessing (both reading and writing) ext2, ext3 or…
PuTTY is a great SSH client on Windows. However, how to save it’s profiles/sessions that I saved so that I can migrate my settings from one machine to another? PuTTY saves its settings in the registry of Windows. You can find it in the registry editor by run regedit under: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSimonTatham You can save your…
I backup my iPhone with iTune to my local computer. Where can I find out the backup files of my iPhone by iTune? And how to get the real files (like songs, notes, etc.) from the backup files? The location of the backup files from iTune It depends on the computer’s operating system: Mac: ~/Library/Application…
This tutorial teaches how to set up SSH proxy on Linux. How to set up one proxy over SSH on Windows? A tutorial of using SSH tunnel as the proxy on Windows is introduced here: https://www.systutorials.com/tutorial/4696/software/proxy-using-ssh-tunnel-on-windows/
What are the Google Chrome keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Linux and Windows? Keyboard shortcuts of Chrome can make it easier to control the browser and save our time. Here are a list of commonly used shortcuts: Ctrl+T Opens a new tab. Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle…
Windows 7 64-bit fails to install on VirtualBox on Linux with status code 0xc0000225: “Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, and click “Next.” 3. Click “Repair your Computer”….
Quick links to some useful software on Windows including Web browsers, Video/audio player and ssh/scpsftp/vnc tools for connecting to Linux. ssh/scp/sftp/vnc for connecting to Linux For Linux users, it is sometimes unavoidably to use Windows. With Windows, the Linux users will need to connect to Linux for some tasks. Some general software are needed. The…
This post is about the Spring Shell technology and its use in java. Experts of java development India have shared their best knowledge in this post for Spring Shell with the community people. If you have anything to ask, do it at the end. Technology: It is command line tool for Java applications to interact…
Gnome Shell has a clean design. But many users want to get more from the desktop environment. Gnome 3’s extension system can help users customize the Gnome Shell’s look greatly. In this post, we summarize 6 extensions we considered essential to make Gnome Shell great. AlternateTab Make Alt-Tab “classic” instead of grouping windows by application….