Credits Xming is the leading X Window Server for Microsoft XP/2008/Windows7. It is fully featured, lean, fast, current, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily transported portable as a pocket X server. Xming is totally secure when used with SSH and optionally includes an enhanced PuTTY Link SSH client and [...]
Full Story »Installing Printer from Command Line – Windows
Credits prnport.vbs This script can be used to create / delete TCP/IP port for ip based printer. prndrvr.vbs This script can be used to install / uninstall drivers for particular printer. prnmngr.vbs this script can be used to install / uninstall printer. Note : All above files are located at %windir%\system32\ Above files are not [...]
Full Story »Windows XP Traffic Shaper
What if your application developer suddenly as you to limit his / her Ethernet bandwidth of windows xp machine? and you do not have spare router / switch for traffic shaping. What can be the convenient way to achieve same without utilizing additional hardware? Probably this is where this freeware application fits in. it can [...]
Full Story »Create Linux / Windows 7 Bootable USB -Ultraiso
In Previous posts we have covered creating usb boot for fedora & ubuntu. Apart from unetbootin, you can use UltraISO to create usb boot. Following is the easy procedure to create bootable usb. 1) Connect USB device & select it int UltraISO. 2) Select Live CD iso image. 3) Click on Bootable from menu, choose [...]
Full Story »Recover Ubuntu & Win7 – after upgrading from XP
If you are using Ubuntu & XP dual boot, & if at all you are planing to upgrade / have upgraded to Win7, this post may be helpful for you. When you upgrade to Win7, due to Win’s unsocial behaviour to coexists with other OS, grub boot loader is lost. Here we assume, when you [...]
Full Story »Squid over Windows
Most of the linux admins have used squid over linux. This is one of the best proxy available. One of my windows admin friend asked me to suggest free proxy available over windows, which has all the feature as Squid. For testing purpose I configured squid over windows. This was easy task as win compiled [...]
Full Story »Image/PDF Printer
Often one needs to create PDF of their reports OR image file. I prefer openoffice for all kind of pdf generation. For webpages you have firefox plugins But when your windows users demands to make pdf of their backoffice application Image printer could be the best fit. You can download freeware imagepriner After installation you’ll [...]
Full Story »SSL integration with apache_no_ssl
Windows I wouldn’t have wrote this post if my software team was open to install latest version of apache_openssl. One of our apache server is running on windows. During installation admin got apache-2.2.10_no_ssl installed. For some reason we chose to host web over SSL & not willing to update Apache version. Latest version with ssl [...]
Full Story »Create Usb Boot Image
Since a year I have been installing Linux using USB. So far never felt like creating image for later use as usb creation using Unetbootin & Fedora LiveUsb creator is very easy and hardly takes time. My colleague is been using Komku-SP-usb.exe for WinXP installation. Creating XP USB installer takes time & requires intervention, one [...]
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