The Chuvash keyboard layout has been the Russian keyboard layout with 4 Chuvash letters that are typed by pressing the right Alt button plus the base letter. Some of the arguments have been Users don’t need to switch or learn a new keyboard layout. They can keep on typing Russian texts and sometimes Chuvash texts It is easy to communicate about how the right Alt button works. The Right-Alt-technique is also used in Esperanto, Polish and other languages.

Just a little productivity tip. If you use git on Windows, you probably already have the Github for Windows application. This application adds the Git Shell: The Git Shell will open a PowerShell window and execute shell.ps1 from the Github directory: What it won’t do is to load your personal PowerShell profile. I want to use my PowerShell profile that creates some links and adjust the look-and-feel and the promt of the shell.

[caption id=“attachment_3165” align=“alignnone” width=“630”] Proto-Bulgarian Runes (Chuvash language is the closest language to the Proto-Bulgar language). Wonder if they are supported in Unicode :)[/caption] The Chuvash Computer Keyboard layouts have existed since 2001, but due to the lack for Unicode support we were forced to use the look-alike letters from other latin-based keyboard layouts. On Linux The Chuvash keyboard layout was added in [2007](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11246 “The original “bug” in FreeDesktop bugzilla”) and Linux is still the only operating system that has a native keyboard layout for Chuvash language.

I can’t write in Chuvash in Windows 8 (and all the previous Windows releases). Chuvash is a minority language in Russian Federation. In this blog post I want to summarize the status of the keyboard layout support of the minority languages of Russia and find a way to improve this situation. Languages and Microsoft There are thousands of languages. Of course it is hard to support them all. As per 2012-02-21 Windows 8 supports 109 (!

If you think that “Go to corner” -> Settings -> Power -> Shut down are three steps to much if you just want to shutdown your Windows 8 machine, than do as I did: create a shortcut on you desktop and a tile on your start screen. Create a shortcut as usual: Write in the location field: shutdown /s /t 0 Name it something, why not “shutdown”? Change the default icon: There it is.

I have tested the Windows 8 developer preview. VMWare player 3 didn’t manage it, so I installed VirtualBox and it ran very well. One thing I did was to enable full screen on VirtualBox. Here is the list of features you get if you install the developer preview: Windows SDK for Metro style apps Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview 28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

Powershell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) är ett bra verktyg för att skriva powershell-skript med färgmarkering och möjligheten att testköra det. Synd bara att det inte är aktiverat ifrån början i Server 2008. För att [aktivera](Import-Module ServerManager 2 Add-Windowsfeature PowerShell-ISE ) kör följande kommandon i powershell: Import-Module ServerManager Add-Windowsfeature PowerShell-ISE För att sedan starta powershell kör: powershell\_ise

Hur gör man om man vill ha två olika internet-adresser för olika inloggningar. Om man har DNS inställt rätt - inga problem. Men hur gör man för att testa det på sin lokala maskin. Man kan ändra dns-information på sin maskin. För detta ska filen [hosts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file% 29#Content_and_location) uppdateras. I Windows tryck på Start och i sökrutan skriv: %SystemRoot%\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts Den här filen är raka motsvarigheten till /etc/hosts i Linux. I filen som öppnas lägg till följande rader som sist: