Cycling throught windows in Windows 8

This Lifehacker post  is about a really useful Windows 7 hack, that works fine on Windows 8  and Windows 10. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced New DWORD (32-bit), name it LastActiveClick, value 1. Restart explorer.   Fearing that the link may break someday, here is a copy of the full content: Windows 7’s taskbar is undoubtedly a great addition to …

Resizing a tmpfs partition without losing the files

Took me just a few seconds of Googleing, but it seems worth taking a note here. To resize a tmpfs filesystem without losing the files. Assuming that /tmp is being mounted in a tmpfs. You can do it so it lasts until next reboot with: mount /tmp -o size=3000M,remount Or you can do it so …

Good Console solution for Windows

After coming across this stackoverflow post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/913912/bash-shell-for-windows I discovered Console: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console And I can use it with the Git shell, setting the shell to: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe” –login -i Just amazing! Update 2017/05/04: The original project is no longer active, but this fork seems to be: https://github.com/cbucher/console

Visualizing thread context switch and schedule timeline in Linux

Recently I needed to see when my threads were executing and in which processor, and it took me a couple of days to get this done. Here is the best solution I’ve found. First of all, we need the kernel to be compiled with some debug features enabled http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt We’ll need to mount the …

“Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: wrong authentication protocol attempted” solution!

After wasting a couple hours I’ve found someone who had the solution, which I found through this guy’s blog. In my case, what I had was a chroot jail inside a server (which I also had full control), here are the steps:   Connect to the server Execute: # xauth list devserver/unix:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  f44098e4ee6687e163c152a72c7dacbd and …