Introduction In a rapidly evolving technological landscape, adaptability is the key to staying ahead. Microsoft, a company known for its long-standing commitment to the Windows operating system, is now expanding horizons by providing users with installation instructions on how to download and install Linux. This initiative isn’t about replacing Windows; it’s about empowering users to…
Introduction Over time, an Arch Linux system can accumulate build artifacts, temporary files, and unnecessary clutter that may consume valuable disk space and slow down your system. To keep your Arch Linux installation running smoothly and maintain a lean system, it’s essential to perform regular maintenance by cleaning up these build artifacts. In this blog…
In the world of Linux firewall management, a significant shift has occurred in recent years with the adoption of nftables as the next-generation packet filtering framework. On Rocky Linux, a popular distribution known for its stability and security features, transitioning from iptables to nftables is not only beneficial but also aligns your system for the…
Introduction In today’s fast-paced world, building and deploying microservices is a common practice for organizations. Azure Functions, a serverless compute service offered by Microsoft Azure, makes it easy to create and deploy small, event-driven, and scalable applications. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the process of building a simple airline service using Azure…
Introduction In this era of digital transformation, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to expose their services to the world. Azure API Management is a powerful tool that enables organizations to securely manage, publish, and analyze their APIs. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through the process of building a simple airline service, deploying…
Enterprise Architect is a powerful tool for modeling and documentation, and one of its key features is the ability to export model content to HTML pages for external parties to access offline. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the process of exporting an entire model in Enterprise Architect as a set of HTML…
Microsoft Azure provides a robust platform for creating and managing Kubernetes clusters. In this blog post, we will walk you through the process of setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster in Azure and then demonstrate how to create a simple C# service and deploy it to the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Additionally, we’ll write a…
The world of web services is constantly evolving, and Functional First programming languages like F# are gaining popularity in the world of web development. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through creating a RESTful web service in F# using Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition. We’ll also develop an F# client that calls this service…
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio is a powerful and versatile tool for recording and live streaming. If you’re an Arch Linux user and want to capture your screen or create engaging content, OBS Studio is an excellent choice. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of installing OBS Studio on an Arch Linux…
The development of web applications and web services has seen significant growth in recent years, providing an excellent means to share data and functionality over the internet. Rust has emerged as a popular choice for building secure and high-performance web services during this time. In this blog post, we will explore how to create a…
Introduction Creating a RESTful web service is a fundamental skill for modern Java developers. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through building a simple REST service using Java and JetBrains‘ powerful toolset. We’ll also provide a Java client code to demonstrate how to call the REST service. Prerequisites Before we begin, make sure you…
Introduction Kotlin, known for its conciseness and compatibility with Java, has gained popularity for developing web services and applications. In this blog post, we will explore how to create a simple RESTful web service using Kotlin and JetBrains tools. We’ll also provide a sample client code to demonstrate how to call the web service. Prerequisites…
Introduction Arch Linux is a versatile and customizable Linux distribution known for its simplicity and flexibility. One of the key aspects of managing an Arch Linux system is installing and removing software efficiently. In this blog post, we will explore how to do just that using the „yay“ command, a popular AUR (Arch User Repository)…
Test network throughput on Arch Linux with iperf3: TCP, reverse direction, parallel streams and UDP. Includes the differences from iPerf2.
Arch Linux is known for its simplicity, customization, and DIY approach. While many Linux enthusiasts enjoy building their systems from the ground up, the installation process can be daunting for newcomers. Luckily, Arch Linux provides the Archinstall.sh script, a user-friendly installer that streamlines the process. In this guide, we’ll walk you through installing Arch Linux…
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital technology, safeguarding your system’s integrity and data is paramount. Unforeseen disasters or system failures can strike at any time, potentially leading to the loss of valuable information and countless hours of work. Fortunately, Clonezilla, a powerful open-source disk cloning and imaging software, offers a robust solution for securing and…
In the world of Linux, system stability and data integrity are paramount. Unexpected issues can arise at any time, jeopardizing your work, settings, and valuable files. To protect your Linux system effectively, it’s essential to have a reliable backup and restore solution in place. One such tool that stands out is Timeshift. In this comprehensive…
In today’s digital age, data is a valuable asset that we cannot afford to lose. Whether it’s important documents, cherished memories in the form of photos and videos, or critical system configurations, having a reliable backup strategy is essential. One robust solution for efficient data backup on Linux systems is BorgBackup. Why Choose BorgBackup? BorgBackup,…
List font families and file paths on Arch Linux, inspect Fontconfig matching, install user fonts and troubleshoot terminal fonts under Hyprland.
This article is about the connection of the Clearstream Digital Instruments API. We will use Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition to implement the basic functions. We will also demonstrate only the actual connection to obtain the Bearer Token as well as a call to the API to determine the stored Instrument Templates. However, all further…
Many people are familiar with the problem of synchronizing files in their own private cloud with their local machine in a professional or private context. Often there are different sync clients for e.g. nextcloud or ownCloud for this… These save local copies of the files in the file system of the computer with which you…
When getting an invalid argument error when doing swapon /swapfile (for instance) it might be due to the underlying filesystem being btrfs. In this case you need to do the following steps: Since version 6.1 of the btrfs tooling it’s possible to create the swapfile in a single command (except the activation): All commands need…
Once having a unique setup running arch linux you may have the need for a high quality desktop wallpaper. For that I’ve created a script that will download once a day a desktop wallpaper as an jpg file and will store it on your file system. Then your desktop of choice can use that folder…
We recently migrated our workstations internally from Debian to Arch Linux using Hyprland and Wayland. We were not sure if this experiment would be crowned with success, but we were pleasantly surprised. On top of that, we installed NVIDIA cards, which made the whole procedure even more difficult. But the end result is something to…
Good news for developers writing code for Windows on ARM now great hardware is available from Microsoft: Available today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 aka Project Volterra – Windows Developer Blog
As we keep using WSL all the time we would like to point out that with the latest release WSL will also support systemd! Read the full post here: Systemd support is now available in WSL! – Windows Command Line (microsoft.com) Here you can also see it in action on one of our machines: This…
And it’s here to stay! Please read here the announcement from Microsoft: Available today: The Windows 11 2022 Update | Windows Experience Blog We’ve already migrated our main machines to this new version, and it looks awesome! So, we recommend everybody to get it and try it out too!
We recently had the problem that we could work on Windows 11 seamlessly with Visual Studio 2022 and interact with our gitea git endpoint without any problems. However on our POP!OS based other workstations we were unable to get the repository cloned: Clone to ’setFileCreationDateToNow‘ …fatal: could not access ‚https://www.jr-it-services.de:3000/johannes/setFileCreationDateToNow.git/‘ server certificate verification failed. CAfile:…
We noticed some time ago that the update of the VMWare Horizon Client (Mware-Horizon-Client-2203-8.5.0-19586897.x64) fails. The installer can be downloaded from this site: https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/downloads/details?downloadGroup=CART23FQ1_LIN64_2203&productId=1027&rPId=87916 We worked hard to find a fix for this, but after some time we noticed that the reason for the failure lies in the installer (script) to rely on a specific…
When starting VS Code, you might receive the following notifications in the bottom right corner. „No view is registered with id: codespaces.explorerDetails“„No view is registered with id: codespaces.explorer“ Reason: the messages come from a deprecated Visual Studio Code extension. You can remove this by typing the following text into a powershell console: code –uninstall-extension ms-vsonline.vsonline
Quite recently I had this issue too with my daily driver – the Surface Laptop 3 15 inch. I was thinking about this to be a hardware problem. Until I learned otherwise. So, I’m linking to this helpful article here too: Surface Laptop 3 screen flickering issue – I had this with the Surface –…
The topic of the free choice of browser in Windows 10 and 11 is currently making the rounds in the media. We would also like to take a clear stand here. From our point of view, it is important that operating systems allow users to use the software they want when choosing a browser. The…
As mentioned in my recent posting about running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware I got today a hint from a reader of this website that it is indeed possible to run Windows 11 in KVM. KVM allows to specify UEFI and also the emulation of a TPM 2.0 module, even without having a real TPM…
Scott Hunter just recently wrote an in depth article about the next upcoming .NET 6 release. In this he also mentioned that .NET MAUI (.NET Multi-platform App UI) will not be GA alongside the general .NET 6 release. Here are all the details of his post: Update on .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) –…
After searching for an open source alternative for a software that does charge yearly fees I did find articles about GMVault as an alternative solution that can even be installed on a Linux server. Which would come in handy, so I tried it out. I decided to to that after reading one of Scott’s older…
After announced, our Windows 11 test instance will not receive further updates… so we’re back on Windows 10 here…
At the moment, the new Windows 11 is present in all media. Besides the wonderful and beautiful things that the new operating system will bring, the increased minimum hardware requirements are the main topic. There are requirements for memory, CPU (Intel 8th Gen and higher) and also TPM 2.0. Therefore, I wanted to test this…
Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios. More on this existing New Feature can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg Enjoy!
And it’s full of new features! And in 64 bit… See the full announcement here: Visual Studio 2022 | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
Don’t you find yourself typing the usual bash commandos into PowerShell from time to time? The natural second thought is often: „ah, I have to install cygwin or something“… but since I’m constantly switching back and forth between the Linux and Windows world, I of course also have WSL 2 on my Windows workstation ……
It’s always interesting to look out for post from Scott Hanselman… This one is no exception: Take your Windows Terminal and PowerShell to the next level with Terminal Icons – Scott Hanselman’s Blog I’m a big fan of the Windows Terminal application and I can recommend it for everyone!
For those who frequently need a virtualized development environment, I recommend the following Microsoft site: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/ A complete virtual machine for the most common environments (VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and Parallels) is offered there. Very practical, especially if you don’t want to keep your own machines up to date all the time.
Zac Bowden has come across a project named „Sun Valley“ which will modernize the look and feel of Windows 10 Fall 2021. Get all the details here: https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-sun-valley-ui-october-2021-update
Another blockbuster news coming from Microsoft: Over 115 million active users every day collaborating in Microsoft Teams:
A good article describing the awesome financial result from Microsoft:
Another great post from Scott Hanselman about keeping WSL instances up to date automatically within Windows 10: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/keeping-your-wsl-linux-instances-up-to-date-automatically-within-windows-10 I’ve done this on my development machine (which is running Windows 10 Pro) like this: Here’s a sample run of the script: As you can see, this is a Powershell script that does all for my 2…
For .NET 5 the gRPC framework will be the central framework when it comes to communication implementations. The main page for it can be found here: https://grpc.io/ Recently Microsoft published an article showing their tremendous committment regarding this open source framework:
A really informative article on using virtual Desktops in Windows 10: https://www.howtogeek.com/688174/how-to-quickly-switch-between-virtual-desktops-on-windows-10/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-microsoft-azure-modular-datacenter/
A very nice article about my favourite Terminal application under Windows: