Windows

Now I know that this should be really straight forward as it’s just a normal disk in a desktop machine, but it really seems to be a tricky problem due to the lack of clear error messages you get when it fails to start the installation. The basis is getting a valid copy of Windows 10 in an ISO download, ...

This is a continuation of Creating Windows 10 Boot Media for a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 Using Only a Mac and a Linux Machine. I figured out that Windows 10 isn’t supported on the Lenovo Thinkpad T410, so I decided to focus on getting Windows 7 running on it, which is what it came with. I know it’s a security risk, ...

Using docker in Windows is a bit like discovering that someone’s missed a vital memo. Everything nearly works as you might hope, but there are glitches all over the place. I use bash as my shell for scripting various things we do with docker in Windows. This leads to two enormously annoying issues: I’ve found it very difficult to mount ...

Some weeks ago, I gave a workshop about Ansible and I was asked how to set up a local test environment for Ansible. Requirement is that this test environment can run on a Windows 10 without a Linux subsystem. I don’t why, but it was not my first customer where Windows 10 could not be used with Linux subsystem (Don’t ...

Every organization needs to collect logs from multiple sources in order to put them in either a log collector or SIEM (or a dedicated audit trail solution). And there are two options for that – using an agent and agentless. Using an agent is easy – you install a piece of software on each machine that generates logs and it ...

Overview This is to document my steps to download all image (JPG) files along with PDF and regular HTML files instead of using the web browser, using only 1 command (wget). Installation Use Choco (https://chocolatey.org/). Follow installation instructions @ https://chocolatey.org/install Then open a command prompt with administrative rights to install wget:choco install wget Usage My target website (say abc.com) is protected ...

During the last four years, until the early part of 2018, I worked on a MacBook. Sometime in the second quarter of last year, I shifted to a Windows 10 laptop. The transition has been quite smooth and delightful. There were two Rails applications that I had to write and maintain. The first application, let’s call it webapp-1, was coded ...

I managed to resolve the issue but not by uninstalling Hyper-V. I saw a couple of suggestions but I find this one suitable (it makes sense since I’m not an IT guru): STEP 1: Open the command prompt as an Administrator. STEP 2: Run the command with no argument: bcdedit After you run the above command, you will see that ...

Hello Friends, In this tutorial, you will learn the following : – How to check which process/application is using a particular port on Windows – How to check which port is being used by a particular process/application on Windows How to check which process/application is using a particular port on Windows Step 1 – Find the process id of the process which ...