Custom WSL Image

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Windows Subsystem for Linux (also known as WSL) is a system where you can run a Linux distribution inside Windows. This is great in that you can run any command line application in Windows. Version 1 of WSL did this using a translation layer between the Linux system and the Windows side. Version 2, which is part of version 2004 of Windows 10, uses an actual Linux kernel to do the work.…

Cloning a Drive

Monday, February 24, 2020

One of the things you have to live with being a technologist is that you inevitably do tech support for family. My recent vacation to the Pacific Northwest was no exception. This time my aunt’s computer was out of disk space. We ordered a new 250GB Crucial M.2 drive to replace the existing 32GB eMMC drive that was in her computer. Easy right? Just open the computer, slap the new drive in it, copy the contents from the old drive to the new drive and then resize the partition.…

Printer Install

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

I have been playing with a few different distributions of Linux for my secondary machine. I have been on Ubuntu for a while and yesterday I installed Arch Linux. Today, I installed Linux Mint. Overall I really like the desktop environment that it comes with. It seems as polished as Ubuntu. Tonight I thought I would try installing my network printer to see how hard it is to install. I went to System Settings and selected Printers.…

Windows Template Studio

Saturday, February 15, 2020

I’m a little late to this party, but there’s an extension for Visual Studio that makes creating really nice UWP apps a snap. This extension is called the Windows Template Studio. The template studio is a wizard interface to create an UWP app with many different choices. Those choices include Project Type, Design Pattern, Pages, Features, Services, and Testing. Each of these has numerous choices making it possible to start just about any app you are looking to create.…

Dual Screen What About UWP

Monday, February 10, 2020

Dual Screen preview and Microsoft 365 Developer Day is coming up tomorrow morning. I’m in Redmond for this great event and I really can’t wait ot hear what they have to say. Tonight in preparation for the event I read through the documentation found linked to the blog post linked above. It made a lot of sense. There’s the Java tools for Android that make dual screen development easier, but not in my wheel house.…

Dual Screen or Foldable Screen

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Coming later this year is the next evolution of tablets. Windows 10X promises dual screen… er… single foldable screen… wait, both? But which do I choose? This is going to be tough. On the one hand you have the Surface Neo and on the other hand you have the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold. Ugh! Let’s start with Lenovo first. I had a first generation Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon back in the day.…

Hugo Page Resources

Friday, February 7, 2020

Hugo is a static site generator that takes markdown and turns it into a static HTML site. That’s how this site is running. I’ve been using it for another of my web sites, but I don’t like how it handles images. I found some code that would put a border around images and it looks nice. I use it on my other blog. But one of the hardest parts was figuring out how to handle page resources in Hugo.…

Hugo to the Rescue

Friday, February 7, 2020

In January I rebuilt my custom blog engine running on .NET Core 3.1. I pushed it up to a new Linux server in Azure. Everything appeared to be okay. So I left it and hoped I’d have the motivation to write some blog posts for it. Yesterday I wanted to see how to do CompactOverlay in JavaScript . I know I have a blog entry on that. I’ll just go to my website and find it.…

6502 Computer

Friday, February 7, 2020

Ben Eater has a series of videos building out a 6502 based computer. So far we have videos detailing how to print out “Hello, World!” on it. It doesn’t seem like much right now, but it was a really interesting process. Besides, just look at how cool this looks: There have been 5 videos detailing how to build this up from the processor to the ROM chip and the 65C22 interface chip.…

Installing .NET Core 3.0 on a Raspberry Pi

Friday, February 8, 2019

I went into this exercise thinking this would be a tough challenge. However, it turns out to be a very simple process. It’s just prepare, download, unpack, configure, and roll with it. Prepare First make sure that your Raspberry Pi is running the latest software updates with this command: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Once that is done, we need to install libunwind8 sudo apt-get install libunwind8 That’s it for prepare.…