Posts Tagged ‘Windows’
June 2020
As another month comes to an end, a quick digest of things that June brought… Black Lives Matter June seems to have been another one of those months full of “there are weeks where decades happen”. As a family we spent one of those weeks educating ourselves a little. Starting out with the BBC’s ‘Sitting […]
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Tags: Air Conditioning, AirPods, CogX, DevOps, DOES, Linux, MotionEye, Windows, Windows 10, WSL2
A colleague asked me the other day how to get started with GitHub on a Windows machine, and I ended up doing a quick screen share to show him my usual setup. Thinking that it’s likely a common question I’ve put together a quick screencast of installing Git Bash and Atom on Windows, and using […]
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Tags: ATOM, bash, git, github, howto, Windows
Copying GPT SSDs
TL;DR Copying the contents of one SSD to a larger one (and making use of the extra space) should be simple, but there are a few gotchas. A combination of AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard and some command line tools got the job done though. Background SSDs have been reasonably cheap for some time, but now […]
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Tags: attributes, clone, copy, diskpart, GPT, migrate, partition, ssd, type, Windows
Your own VPN in the cloud
Last week I saw that major credit card companies are blocking payments to VPN services: This is bad news if you want to protect your stuff online (or pretend that you’re in another country). One way to deal with this is to run your own VPN service in the cloud. This is of course of […]
Filed under: cloud, CohesiveFT, howto | 3 Comments
Tags: Access Server, android, cloud, iOS, iPad, iphone, Linux, MAC, OpenVPN, VNS3, vpn, VPS, Windows
More memory, better performance
Since I was so happy with the HP 650 business laptop that I got for my wife, my father in law decided to get one too. I was surprised to find that the Windows Experience Index (WEI) was so much slower than I’d seen on my wife’s machine: It’s no surprise that the memory benchmark […]
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Tags: bandwidth, benchmark, Core, DIMM, experience index, GPU, HD3000, i3, Intel, performance, RAM, SODIMM, WEI, Windows
What’s going on in laptop land?
Prices are up – way up. I’d love to get some better metrics, but for now I’ll just go on a few specific data points from observations over the last couple of months. When I was deciding whether or not to get a Chromebook after Christmas I could have picked up a white AMD (E-1200) […]
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Tags: AMD, Chromebook, Intel, laptop, pricing, rises, Windows
OpenVPN
For some time I’ve used SSH tunnels as a means to pretend that I’m somewhere else to avoid geography filters, or to otherwise sneak past content filters. This is fine for regular HTTP(S) traffic from a browser, where it is easy to define a proxy server, but doesn’t work so well for other applications – […]
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Tags: cloud, filter, iOS, iSSH, Linux, OpenVPN, PrivateTunnel, SSH, SSL, tunnel, Ubuntu, vpn, VPS, Windows
Another Microserver
After switching to using my tablet PC as my main machine I was missing the local storage and optical drive from my desktop. The solution was to get another HP Microserver to be a sort of sidecar when I want the extra drives. As the HP cashback deal is still on this is a surprisingly […]
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Tags: 2008R2, codec, divx, hibernate, HP, iSCSI, Media Player, Microserver, transcoding, video, Windows
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