Every now and then I want to make my batch scripts pause or wait for x amount of time. Most solutions seem to utilise ping to make it wait as natively Windows doesn’t include a sleep or wait feature and pause only accepts a user input. Here comes the timeout command! user@computer:$ TIMEOUT /NOBREAK /T [...]
Continue Reading →I have started using OpenVPN on Windows 7 and its pretty good apart from the default client setup leaves the connection under the “Public” settings and so network shares and discovery etc do not work. After reading a few guides, there were two ways mentioned; set all public networks as private and allow the services [...]
Continue Reading →I was beta testing out an OVH cloud server and to login initially, you were required to use a .pem authentication key, this would be fine from a Linux box as you could just execute SSH like this ssh -i key.pem user@computer but with Windows, this becomes a problem as Windows doesn’t have native SSH [...]
Continue Reading →While playing about with Microsoft Windows 2003, I needed to install an MSN client, which at the time was Windows Live Messenger 2009. Now Microsoft in their wisdom has for some reason stopped WLM 2009 from installing easily onto any of their servers OS’s i.e. Windows Server 2003 from their normal downloads. There was numerous [...]
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