Good Softwares

Table of contents

1. PortableApps
   1. Remove splash screen
2. KiTTY
   1. Fix screen output
3. Duplicati
4. Paint.Net (Paint/Photoshop alternative)
5. Visual Studio Code (Text/Code editor)
   1. LTeX (Grammar/Spell checker)
6. Cygwin (Linux on Windows)
7. OpenJDK (Java)
8. VirtualBox (Virtual Machine)

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PortableApps

Remove splash screen

In the same directory as AppPortable.exe Put AppPortable.ini with proper parameter

KiTTY

• In Window → Appearance, Use Lucida Console instead of Courrier
• In Connection → Data:
  • Define an auto-login username
  • Define a command, like an auto screen start: screen -q && read -n1 -r -p "Press any key to exit, or Ctrl+C to continue." && exit

Fix screen output

In the setting for a connection, go to :

• Window > Appearance, Change font to Lucida Console
• Window > Translation, Change remote character set to ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West Europe) … but this will break other softwares.

Duplicati

A very good backup solution, if you have a good storage provider.
In Ubuntu, installed in /usr/lib/duplicati/, and use ' in command line There’s also a command-line Duplicati client

Documentation for command line is here.
Useful commands:

• Duplicati.CommandLine.exe delete <storage-URL> --version=<int> to delete all files that belong to version <int>
• Duplicati.CommandLine.exe test <storage-URL> <all/#> [<options>] to check either all or a number (#) of sample

Troubleshooting:

1. Do a repair command from the command-line web interface
2. Do a list-broken-files to check affected files and versions
3. Do a purge-broken-file to remove the above

Paint.Net (Paint/Photoshop alternative)

• Official site
• Great plugin pack

Visual Studio Code (Text/Code editor)

• How to make VSCode portable

LTeX (Grammar/Spell checker)

• List of supported languages
• Change language for one document. Example in Markdown:

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    lang: fr
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Cygwin (Linux on Windows)

• Official website
• Portable installer
• Useful commands:
  • apt-cyg packet manager, similar to apt

OpenJDK (Java)

• Download Java interpreter
• Open a jar: .\OpenJDK\bin\javaw.exe -jar "PathToJar"

VirtualBox (Virtual Machine)

• Fix permissions with shared folders on Linux
  • Message in Ubuntu: This location could not be displayed. and You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "sf_Manager".
  • Solution: sudo adduser $USER vboxsf and reboot
• Compact a virtual hard drive .vdi
  1. Defragment the disk
  2. In the guest:
     • Linux: dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/bigemptyfile bs=4096k ; rm /var/tmp/bigemptyfile
     • Windows: sdelete.exe c: -z from Sysinternals
  3. Shutdown
  4. Run VBoxManage.exe modifymedium --compact c:\path\to\thedisk.vdi

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