Posts Tagged ‘command’

Find a Windows Vista MAC Address

8, Jul 2009

Yesterday eve I had to add a laptop to my network which is using MAC address filtering. The laptop ran Windows Vista and I tried to locate its MAC address by using the good old ipconfig within a command prompt. This gave no results as apparently the network details only get listed once an actual [...]

Empty Trash from the terminal

23, May 2009

For some reason I can not recall I went into my Trash bin on Fedora. There was unsurprisingly a lot of trash! I decided to empty the Trash bin but it only succeeded partially. I had a DVD directory that did not want to be deleted. Looking closer at the message it was a permissions [...]

Home and End keys in PuTTY

6, Jun 2008

I wondered why sometimes the Home and End keys work as expected during a SSH session via PuTTY and some other times it just writes tildes (~) instead. When writing long commands it is a real annoyance having to press down the left arrow to get back to the beginning of the command. A simple [...]


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