Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Flips My Screen

If this is happening to you, it could be because you are using the Intel HD Graphics drivers. You’ll certainly notice this issue if you use Sublime Text since it uses the same key combination to expand the multiline editing. To resolve the issue you can either change Intel’s keys or turn them off entirely. Right click on you desktop and select Graphics Properties in the context menu. Select Options...

October 19, 2013

Windows Automatic Log On

I have a few applications installed on my home server that are user-level applications, meaning that a user must be logged on in order for the application to start. I don’t want to have to manually log on ever time my server restarts, so I set up automatic log on for the server. Here’s how to do it. Press Windows Key + R to launch the run dialog. Type in netplwiz and click OK....

September 23, 2013

Windows Secure Logon

You may have noticed that before you log on to you office PC that you are required to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE before entering you user name and password. Apparently, this is actually a security feature. According to this Windows support article (which this post is based on), [w]hen secure logon is enabled, no other program (such as a virus or spyware) can intercept your user name and password as you enter it....

September 23, 2013

Host Git Repositories on a Windows Share

I usually use BitBucket or GitHub to host my git repositories, but sometimes I need to host them on some internal network. In this post I will show you how to host those repositories on a Windows share. I’m going to cover two scenarios: 1) You already have a git repository 2) You are starting fresh with a brand new repository. For both of these tracks I’m going to assume that you already have a Windows share set up on some remote computer, and that you have the read and write permissions on that share....

June 24, 2013