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LonM's Blog

LonM starts rambling and doesn't know when to stop

Tag: windows

Connected Files in Windows

2025-03-202025-03-20 — Posted inSoftware — 3 min read

Discovering the old windows 2000 connected files features and finding that it still works well

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MS Apps are Garbage for the Command Line

2024-09-172024-09-10 — Posted inSoftware — 3 min read

If you need command line use from a windows store app, don’t even bother trying, just download the regular app.

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Adventures in Windows Firewall Whitelisting

2020-12-282020-12-20 — Posted inPrivacy, Software — 6 min read

Why I’m banning all unknown connections out of my PC, and some of the tools that help: the Windows Firewall Notifier and Windows Firewall Control.

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Credentials & other woes with Windows 2004

2020-06-222020-06-19 — Posted inSoftware, Technology — 5 min read

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 version 2004. I will detail all of the problems I found, including workarounds for some of them.

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Scheduling Themes on Windows 1909

2019-11-252020-03-27 — Posted inProductivity, Software, Technology — 10 min read

I have had struggles dealing with this in the past and now eventually figured out how to do it. There’s still some work to be done though.

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[A] Windows 8.1

2019-10-072020-03-27 — Posted inArchives, Software — 5 min read

Archived 2013-10-26. I had just upgraded my PC to Windows 8.1. It seems that past me was somewhat impressed.

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Remotely accessing a Jupyter notebook

2019-01-152020-03-27 — Posted inPersonal, PhD Diary — 4 min read

I was recently in a situation where I needed to remotely access a python notebook. Here’s how I went about doing it.

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Vivaldi through WSL

2017-11-112020-03-27 — Posted inBrowser, Software, Technology — 7 min read

This blog post aims to explain how to run Vivaldi through WSL – the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Provides a walk-through for the Ubuntu and OpenSUSE distributions.

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