Tag: windows
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Setting up Bower and Gulp in Windows
Doing things manually is fine once but if you can automate things it’s better. With little tools you can speed up development and reduce recursive mundane tasks such as starting a project or setting up boilerplate code. I recently came across Bower which is a package manager for the web. With Bower you can fetch…
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Connecting Jabra HALO2 Bluetooth Headset with Windows 7
Recently I got Jabra HALO2 Bluetooth headset for teleconferences but had problems to get it work with Windows 7 and Dell Latitude E6530. Windows found the device and wanted to install drivers but couldn’t find any. The solution was easy: update your laptops’ Bluetooth drivers. I downloaded Dell Wireless 380 Bluetooth Application version 6.5.1.4000,A02 from…
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Windows and X11 forwarding with Xming
Usually I prefer to do thing directly from the Linux terminal but sometimes there is a need for remote graphical tools and X11 forwarding. Linux supports X Forwarding with no extra software, on OS X you need e.g. XQuartz and on Windows you need two pieces of software: a secure shell program (ssh) to establish…
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Transferring Linux install media to USB thumb drive
Optical drives are nowadays less common on laptops which makes making bootable install medias a little easier. Yes, easier by requiring you to use USB thumb drives. There are different ways to achieve what you want and here is couple of examples how to transfer Linux install media to USB thumb drive on Windows and…
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Do a clean install of Windows 8 with an upgrade key
There are times when you have to do a clean install of your Windows 8 but if you have just an upgrade key you need to make couple of extra hoops before you can activate the new install. The upgrade key doesn’t prevent you installing to a clean disk but when you try to activate,…