Managing, using, and developing for or on Microsoft Windows 10 and 11
For PowerShell on Windows, adding a security privilege to a user takes more effort than one would expect. Here we show a method with no third party dependencies.
The official Ubuntu images that are built for Azure/Hyper-V really are only compatible with Hyper-V on Azure, but there is a solution…
This guide provides and important step missing from any articles I could find on converting from a Windows 7 physical machine to a Hyper-V (or other) virtual machine.
These are some personal notes about setting up a very nice combined Windows and Linux productivity and development environment.
These are notes on creating a Windows and Linux hybrid environment, specifically when running Windows in a Libvirt/KVM VM.
These are notes on creating a Windows and Linux hybrid environment, specifically when running Windows on a physical machine
Obtaining and/or creating Windows install media for Windows 10 Pro
A quick guide to a base install of windows, for completeness.
Some recommended first steps after a base install of Windows 10.
Windows post-install extra tweaks and recommendations
In fact I am quite interested in what I am working on, and am happy to be learning new things. Unfortunately, not sleeping well, and other frustrations, have marred my enjoyment of my current circumstances. Still, I will prevail.
While it once might have been said that I had a few screws loose, nowadays I am not only getting things done, I am thinking clearly and coherently (except when exhausted of course, but that is to be expected). I’ve also been too busy to spend too much time on politics or news and all the things that I cannot change.
For Power BI, if your data source does not already have a date dimension table, Microsoft strongly recommends adding one in Power Query M-code. Here we show how to do that for a fiscal year date table.