Andy Ferguson I like Chromebooks, but I want one with a lot more power. CloudReady is a rebuild of Chromium OS that will run on pretty much anything. https://www.neverware.com/freedownload I’ve tried it on a 10 year old Macbook Pro and my X230 so far. Both worked well.
I should really write a proper blog post about this, seeing as I’m using it quite a lot. But in the meantime there is a really good wiki page that has all the useful information: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WSL
Today I dealt with the issue that all my Rasberry Pis were running a version of the OS that was quite old. This also lead to me setting up a new pihole computer, which now updates with the following script:
I always forget where these are. I will forget no longer. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/
I’ve just started using Notable for writing in Markdown, largely so I can try Mermaid for creating diagrams. So far I’ve created a large piece of work-based documentation using it, and I found it instinctive and really fun to use. Links to various resources are below: Notable Mermaid Mermaid live editor (to try things out) … Read more
https://notable.md/ This is a markdown editor that looks promising.
This is quite exciting. I will definitely spend some time with it over the next few days. https://multipass.run/
I had missed this. Creating a presentation from a markdown file is now as simple as: pandoc input.md -o output.pptx –reference-doc=ref.pptx This takes whatever is in ref.pptx as a template, so allows you to use specific themes.
View members in a group: Get-ADGroupMember -identity groupname | sort name | select-object -expand Name Same as above, but does a recursive search through all sub-groups: Get-ADGroupMember -identity groupname -Recursive | sort name | select-object -expand Name View groups a single person is in: Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership username | select name,distinguishedName | sort distinguishedName
Since I’ve been using Windows to do more things I’ve needed to explore new ways of getting the sort of technology I became used to in other operating systems. This is what I enable: Hyper-V (everything) Windows Hypervisor platform Windows Sandbox Windows Subsystem for Linux (and then install Ubuntu from the store) I also disable … Read more