I’m running Ubuntu 20.04 via WSL on my Windows 11 PC. Today I got this distracting message when I tried to do an apt update Is codeblocks obsolete? Either way. the repo has to go. It took me a while to find the command to remove codeblock repo from my distrubution. Here it is for …
( It would mean the world if you would consider following @colhountech on twitter. It won’t cost you anything but it gives me great encouragement to continue writing these posts) This had me for a couple of minutes and a google search did not give me the answer, so I’m dropping it here. I can …
Assume everything is setup correctly, there is nothing to do. You can test by doing a dry-run as follows: Here is a sample output from doing a dry-run.
I don’t get much time to play with linux or asp.net core any more. It’s over a year since I’ve had a chance to play, since I got involved with a new startup last December. In fact, I have been so busy, I actually ended up turned off my ubuntu 16.04 server because it was …
So, I’m grateful and slightly in awe that I have just started blogging again, and a few articles already seem to be popular. Thanks folks. So, a few people have followed my guidance on setting up RDP to access Linux, because, let’s face it.. RDP rocks!. However I didn’t mention in the previous article how to …
( It would mean the world if you would consider following @colhountech on twitter. It won’t cost you anything but it gives me great encouragement to continue writing these posts) As I wait for the Linux on Ubuntu on Windows feature to arrive in this month Windows 10 update, I decided to add the Ubuntu fonts to Windows 10 …
was looking for a really light [Ubuntu] Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/) desktop with two requirements: it must have a small footprint I must be able to RDP to the box from Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDP) My main requirement is that it should work on a Basic_A0 sized Azure VM instance ((0.25 cores, 0.75 GB memory), so that it’s doesn’t …
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It’s been a long time since I’ve played with Linux. So, I’m learning again. The old way was to create a swap file with dd and swapon. I came across a nice article today on the modern way to do it. (yes, I’m starting to feel old). Mostly, it’s the same, but a few new ways of tuning things. In …
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