How to find a Windows product key fom Linux
The command is:
Windows
Making a multi-boot USB with Ventoy
I made a Ventoy USB last night (Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian). It’s a really simple process that I’ll definitely be exploring further (and maybe blogging about). Redid again today with a bigger USB and 10 distros plus a Windows 10 installer. Imagine carrying 50 distros on one USB. The future is here!
Using Barrier to control multiple computers
Looks like Synergy has been forked and the new version (Barrier) is available for most platforms. I’ve tried this out for about half an hour and it seems to work really well. https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/releases This might be the solution to some of the cable switching I have to do when I’m working from home.
WSL 2
Most things should be at this link: https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-on-wsl-2-is-generally-available The new Windows Terminal is also in the Microsoft store. It’s probably the best way to experience WSL now.
Azure portal
For downloading Visio and Project to new Windows PCs (and other things of course). https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Education/EducationMenuBlade/overview
Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL)
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
Notable
https://notable.md/ This is a markdown editor that looks promising.
Multipass
This is quite exciting. I will definitely spend some time with it over the next few days. https://multipass.run/
Creating Powerpoint presentations from Markdown using Pandoc
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.
Querying Active Directory with Powershell
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