Solarized is a beautiful color palette. The palette was designed for readability and comes with both light and dark options. Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this color scheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions.

Reduce the size of your System Volume Information folder by shrinking the shadow storage. Use vssadmin list shadowstorage to list the current Shadow Copy Storage size. C:\>vssadmin list shadowstorage vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool (C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp. Shadow Copy Storage association For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{278ce142-19d8-11e1-9176-806e6f6e6963}\ Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{278ce142-19d8-11e1-9176-806e6f6e69 63}\ Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 15.681 GB (39%) Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 16.

For those note aware of the GNU Tail utility, it will print the last n lines of text from a file. It is an invaluable tool for monitoring log files. Since Windows does not have an equivalent command this is quite useful. Using the Powershell Get-Content cmdlet will print the contents of a file. The -wait parameter will print additional lines as they are added. Get-Content filename -wait Be aware that this is slow on large files.

A Windows Administrator USB toolkit. The following is a collection of free and/or open source tools I like to keep on hand. Portable Apps collection PortableApps.com Suite™ is a complete collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go.