Use the Windows command line tool DiskPart. Run as administrator.
Some useful commands:
list disk select disk 1 (or the number which is your stick) clean (to delete all the partitions there) create partition primary (to create a primary partition)
Then use the formatting option in the explorer to format your stick.
Not so well documented, but there is a way to display hexadecimal numbers in Excel. Use the following formula to convert a number into hexadecimal format:
="0x"&DEZINHEX(A1)
Cloud storage app like Dropbox and Seafile can eat a lot of your bandwidth, which is especially painful when you are on a slow WiFi connection.
Luckily, these apps come with a possibility to limit their bandwidth use.
For Dropbox,
For Seafile,
doodle.com is a well known page for scheduling meetings or making decisions. Its calendar integration is probably less known. Doodle can export a calendar with the dates you have chosen in order to remind you to keep them blocked. When a date is fixed for a query, doodle releases the other dates. You can also add your calendar to doodle to see your availabilities right in the doodle calendar and to use such features as autofill.
If you look for something else, calendly.com is another free service that provides an interface for others to schedule a meeting with you. Dates with concurring events in your Google calendar are automatically blanked out.
Tortoise SVN has an option for saving authentication, but it does not work for SVN. In order to save the authentication, go to Tortoise settings, for example by right clicking in the Windows Explorer and then selecting Tortoise > Settings. In the settings window, select Network. Then add the path to Tortoise Plink (it is in the “bin” folder of the Tortoise installation) and add an option for a username and password using options -l and -pw.
For example:
“C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoisePlink.exe” -l foo -pw bar
The Model Repair Service from Netfab automatically repairs STL, OBJ, or 3MF files for 3D printing. To use the service you need a Microsoft Live account. The service is free for non-commercial use.
filegive easily sends or receives files point-to-point, with authentication and ciphering, and the other side only needs a Web browser. No third party server is involved in the transfer. It can use common NAT traversal protocols like uPnP and NAT-PMP, manually forwarded ports, or a public ssh server.
filegive is a commandline tool available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.
“I don’t have LateX installed” is no excuse anymore. With
Authorea it is possible to edit papers directly in the webbrowser with having the LateX and Bibtex compiler in the cloud. Other authors can be added for collaborative writing.
See also:
$ wget \
–recursive \
–no-clobber \
–page-requisites \
–html-extension \
–convert-links \
–restrict-file-names=windows \
–domains website.org \
–no-parent \
www.website.org/tutorials/html/
This command downloads the Web site www.website.org/tutorials/html/.
The options are:
–recursive: download the entire Web site.
–domains website.org: don’t follow links outside website.org.
–no-parent: don’t follow links outside the directory tutorials/html/.
–page-requisites: get all the elements that compose the page (images, CSS and so on).
–html-extension: save files with the .html extension.
–convert-links: convert links so that they work locally, off-line.
–restrict-file-names=windows: modify filenames so that they will work in Windows as well.
–no-clobber: don’t overwrite any existing files (used in case the download is interrupted and resumed).
WriteLaTeX is an on-line collaborative LaTeX editor. You can edit the code in a web browser similar to codepad and provides a live preview of the document. Images and bibliography files can be uploaded.
