Category Archives: Windows

Tips and tweaks

Use the ATOM editor behind a proxy on Windows 10

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Juergen Caris

I came across this public domain editor and decided to install it to use it for uploading firmware to my SONOFF devices (TUTORIAL: Install Sonoff-Tasmota Firmware on your Sonoff Device). Unfortunately I wasn’t able to download packages for it because … Continue reading →

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Nagios wrapper.vbs(0, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Path not found in check_files.vbs

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Juergen Caris

I had this error message today and wasn’t able to easily fix it. It took me a while to find out that this was caused by spaces in the folder names. Although I had the whole path in double quotes … Continue reading →

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Passwordless remote login using Putty

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Juergen Caris

It is quite easy to configure Putty to login to a server using a public/private key pair. Create the key pair Open the Puttygen.exe file and create a 1024 bit RSA-SSH2 key. After the keys have been created save them … Continue reading →

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Problems installing Google Drive on Windows7

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Juergen Caris

Today I discovered a problem when I tried to install the Google Drive client on my workstation at work. We are sitting behind an ISA proxy and so from time to time, we have problems to access services like SkyDrive … Continue reading →

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