VMs and Sandboxes on Windows 10

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

Hyper-V and Virtualbox on Windows 10

They won’t run together, so if you enable Hyper-V then 64 bit Virtualbox VMs will fail to run, and it won’t be possible to create new ones. If there are no 64 bit options in Virtualbox then this is probably the cause. Supporting information is here.

Bulk image manipulation

Resizing Navigate to the directory containing the images (via the terminal) and then enter the following command: mogrify -resize 20×20 *.png Which will resize all PNG files to 20×20 pixels. This can obviously be altered to cater for different sizes and file types. Conversion The command to convert a whole folder of images from .bmp … Read more

Windows software

Things to install on new Windows 10 computers: Pandoc Dropbox Atom (in fact, these three should go on any new computer I’m using for personal work).