Year: 2017
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How to download a file from a remote Linux server via SCP in Windows using Cmder
If you’re working on Windows and you need to grab a file from a remote Linux server over SSH, make sure you use Cmder. Once you have Cmder extracted, you can use the Linux command line SCP directly from Windows: You can use this shortcut if you’ve already setup your SSH agent. There is unexplained…
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Hashcheck – the best way to calculate and verify checksums on Windows
HashCheck is the quickest and easiest way to verify downloaded files on Windows. Originally developed at code.kliu.org, HashCheck was left to languish for since 2009 until @gurnec took over stewardship of this rather excellent piece of software. They’ve updated it to support newer hashing standards such as Once installed you can double click on .md5…
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SSH keygen best practice for cmder
Bang this into cmder. and then this Which will output something like this: You can then download this user-profile.cmd and place it in %CMDER_ROOT%\config\ There are plenty of good reasons why, but I won’t repeat these people’s work. Please read. Refs:
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SSH without passwords in Windows using cmder
Being able to log into remote servers without remembering each unique password is one of the great things about the public-key system. In Linux this is pretty much expected behaviour, but not so much in Windows. However, if you replace your command line with cmder instead, it’s a simple 3 step procedure. When you next…
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Android, MTP and Windows programs
It’s frustrating how many older Windows programs handle MTP – they simply pretend it doesn’t exist. I wanted to dedupe some photos and videos between my OnePlus 3 and the files stored in Google Photos/Drive and the otherwise excellent dupeGuru simply didn’t show the OnePlus 3 as a possible target for scanning. I ended up…
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Configuring the Red Scarf III 84 (RS84) keyboard layout
I have been envious of the neatness of my friend’s 60% keyboards for some years. I’ve also liked the idea of taking up less desk space and minimising the amount of movement I have to make with my arm when moving from keyboard to mouse. However, whenever I’ve thought about the real-world use of a…
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How to manually kill a MariaDB process
Thanks to Wojtek Dmyszewicz on StackOverflow for saving me time and frustration when I ran into [ERROR] InnoDB: Unable to lock ./ibdata1, error while working with MariaDB at the command line. The solution is to list all currently running MariaDB processes, which call themselves ‘mysql’ for compatibility with MySQL: This will output some results, such…
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Setting up a WordPress site using EasyEngine 3.7
Creating WordPress sites on a $5/month VPS such as DigitalOcean with EasyEngine is incredibly rapid. Installing EasyEngine is a single command and then setting up a WordPress site with the following features is another single command.
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SSL A rating with SSL Labs
I was getting a B rating when testing my newly Let’s Encrypted site with Qualys SSL Labs. The solution was to add a strong DH group to NGINX – here’s how to do it.