Archive for the ‘windows’ Category

vim unicode setup for windows 2000

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

To display unicode (utf8) files in vim in windows, the following commands should be added to %PROGRAMS%\Vim\_vimrc:

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sharing files from linux to windows

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Yes, one installs and configures Samba. All I need is to access a big folder in the read-only mode. The quick and dirty solution is:

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calling batch files with ‘exit’

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Consider ‘main.bat


call child1.bat
call child2.bat

What happens after ‘child1.bat‘ is finished?

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extending a virtual disk in vmware

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Extending a virtual disk in vmware

1. Backup!

2. Somewhere in the vmware installation directory, there is a tool named “vmware-vdiskmanager.exe“. There is a lot of options, for resize use “-x“:

vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 8Gb ...path.to.vm..../vm_disk.vmdk

(hint: type the command manually, do not copy/paste from web. Otherwise you can get typographical spaces or minuses instead of the usual ones.)

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