Jun

7

Installing OpenSSH on Windows 7

June 7, 2011 | 17 Comments

Today, I was tempted to take control of a Windows machine remotely in console mode as I’m trying to script the launch and use of VLC. A quick Google search reveleaed the existence of the sshwindows project which is a more lightweight solution than a full cygwin installation. Here are the installation steps : Download [...]

Apr

17

Convert a VMWare Player appliance to be used with Virtual Box

April 17, 2011 | 1 Comment

As I understand, this post might soon be outdated if the next version of Virtual Box does manage to natively run VMWare Player appliances. Still, this version hasn’t be released yet and, since the VMWare Player doesn’t exist for OS X, I had to convert an appliance from VMWare player to Virtual Box. Here are [...]

Jan

29

iTerm2: advanced features

January 29, 2011 | 5 Comments

At bluekiwi, I constantly have no less than 10 opened terminal sessions at the same time. Because it is so easy to launch a command in the wrong window (on the wrong server), I got used to always order my tabs the same way and always give them the same name. As I needed more [...]

Jan

23

FTP upload in a script

January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The FTP protocol is simple to use. In a console, type ftp <host> to connect to your host. Enter your login and password when prompted and use get to download and put to upload a file. But what about doing that in a bash script ? Here is a working example of an FTP upload [...]