Category Archives: Applications

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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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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Have you ever heard about Bookmarklets?

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Juergen Caris

You can have certain functionality in browsers that have not the possibility to load addons. This technique has been invented more than 10 years ago, but is not well known. Bookmarklets are small java scripts that are stored as bookmarks. … Continue reading →

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