Cygwin linux compatible symbolic links

Making symbolic links on Windows xp using junction from sysinternals

http://digitalpbk.com/2009/12/making-symbolic-links-windows-xp-using-junction-sysinternals Making symbolic links on Windows xp using junction from sysinternals Symlinks is a utility that allows two paths to point to the same set of files and subfolders. This is a handy utility on linux which lets you point one path on linux to another path. To do achieve the same functionality on Windows XP, software called junction can be used. provided by SysInternals. Here is the help from the junction.exe D:\>junction /? Junction v1.05 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer ...

Linux style command line for Windows, Drag to Select, Right click to paste

http://digitalpbk.com/windows/linux-style-command-line-quick-edit-right-click-paste , we can select using the mouse and right click using paste. Cygwin on windows gives most of the utilities on Linux, but the command line interface is still that of the Windows. So in order to bring Linux like command line on Windows, you just have to enable an option, which most of us rarely know. Right Click on the command line title and click properties Now tick the checkbox as highlighted in the image given below : Press OK and select save the properties for all windows. Or select ...

Remove old kernels in Ubuntu

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2008/11/ubuntu-remove-old-kernel-grub-list-long.html Removing symbolic link initrd.img.old you may need to re-run your boot loader[grub]Purging configuration files for linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic ...Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub.Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grubSearching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/defaultTesting for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lstSearching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-genericFound kernel: /boot/memtest86 ...

Installing Misc Softwares on FC6

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/05/installing-vlc-on-fc6.html /lib/firefox/firefoxIn the first step we untar the downloaded files to /usr/libcompat-libstdc++-33 is a module that is required for Firefox, skip this step if you are sure you have the moduleNext we remove the previous link/ init script of Firefox from /usr/binFinally we make a new link in /usr/bin to the new Firefox 2.NVidia Graphics DriverDownload the latest nvidia driver (1.0-9626) from here.# init 3Command not found# /sbin/init 3# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9629-pkg1.run# rebootNTFS file system support$ suPassword: # yum ...

Cygwin: Clear screen command, How to clear the screen ?

http://digitalpbk.com/cygwin/how-clear-screen-cls-command-not-found Cygwin: Clear screen command, How to clear the screen ? Some one may be wondering where is the clear command on cygwin. If we type either cls or clear we would be shown bash: clear: command not found. So there are many fancy ways to clear the command line prompt, but the one I liked the best is Ctrl + L Simple, just press Control + L on the keyboard and your command line prompt cleans up. :) Cygwin Software ...

Install Wireless Wifi drivers on Sony Vaio CW on Linux Ubuntu

http://digitalpbk.com/ubuntu/install-wireless-wifi-drivers-linux-karmic-9.1-sony-vaio-cw Install Wireless Wifi drivers on Sony Vaio CW on Linux Ubuntu Out of the box Ubuntu 9.10 wireless/wifi did not work on my Sony Vaio CW Series (VPCCW26FG), The following error message is shown on start up and on dmesg command. Could not read microcode: -2 The solution was to install backports modules. Installing Wireless Drivers on Ubuntu In order to make wireless (WiFi) work on the new Sony Vaio CW series, you have to run the following commands on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. sudo apt-get clean ...

SSH Tunneling Proxy using Putty on Windows and Linux (Unblock YouTube / Orkut / Facebook)

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/05/ssh-proxy-windows-linux-orkut-bypass.html . Next we have to configure the Browser to use this proxy. On Linux (Or Cygwin on Windows)Run the commandssh -C2qTnN -D 9090 username@remote_machine.comSetting up the BrowserFirefoxOn linux take Edit > PreferencesOn Windows take Tools > OptionsClick on Advanced > Network Tab > Settings. (Illustrated Above)Now you get a window as shown below, and fill the settings as shown below.Manual Proxy SettingsBlank out all other Text FieldsSocks Host: localhostPort : 9090 (or the one you specified ...

Google Chrome for Linux finally available

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-for-linux-finally.html Google Chrome for Linux finally available Click Here ...

Setting up Apache-PHP on windows.

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/12/setting-up-apache-php-on-windows.html you will serve your# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.#DocumentRoot "C:/public_html/"and after that a few lines under ..## This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.### Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",# or any combination of:# Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews## Note ...

Protect yourselves from phishing

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/get-smart-against-phishing.html now its our turn to get smart and fight back.Common methods of phishingMost phishing scams start from fake e-mails that arise from compromised mail servers across the world, or from zombie computers called botnets. Phishing mails will be asking for confidential data like PIN numbers, Bank account id and passwords, or anything personal. There would be some links in the mail that redirects to some compromised server, which would be very similar to the legitimate site.Another common scam is someone ...