Best posts made by warren.stanley

As part of my effort to streamline recreation of my daily driver Windows box, I've been looking at posts from various Developers using Windows 10, detailing their environment configuration. They generally have pretty extensive application / package dependencies so it seemed like a good source of tips and strategies.

I stumbled across mentions of Scoop and AppGet. I'd heard of Scoop, it was on my radar, but AppGet, I've no knowledge of. It uses YAML for manifests (which are open source and stored in GitHub). Seems to be a decent (and current) list of Packages.

I do use Chocolatey on my PC and for helping patch the Windows PCs at work, but it's not been super smooth sailing.

Anyone spent any time using AppGet?

Update - Developer manifesto AppGet, What Chocolatey wasn’t

Just putting this here for prosperity

Worth the wait: Fedora Linux 35 is here!

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-35

I backed this.... I mean, the logo itself is a winner . I’m almost as excited to be getting a shirt as a fantastic modern hypervisor platform to move forward with!

Currently loving playing old ColecoVision carts via my recently arrived CollectorVision Phoenix Video Game System (FPGA Console).

I've given up playing "fix-the-bad-ram/component-and-lifting-traces-with-barely-enough-technical-skill" game on the real Coleco hardware, not to mention keeping CRTs alive so I can try and use the end result.

JumpCloud Free version now has the System Insights feature included

" A core philosophy at JumpCloud has always been to provide tremendous functionality to customers, including free accounts with up to 10 users and systems. It’s critical that IT admins can fully deploy and use our platform without restrictions, especially during times when managing a remote workforce is necessary.

To support this, we've made our new premium feature System Insights available to use for all JumpCloud free accounts like yours. System Insights provides critical visibility into OS configurations and security settings on JumpCloud-managed systems. We hope that you’ll use and enjoy this new and exciting feature to:

• Remotely collect data on OS version, patches, kernel info, and app versions in order to find recently reported security vulnerabilities and take appropriate action
• Track the applications end users are installing on systems to find out-of-date software and licenses
• Troubleshoot user issues and mitigate them with easy access to system data such as uptime, network interfaces, shared resources, hardware, and more
• Gather deep insights from 64bit Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems "

@StuartJordan I kinda like the netplan approach (ducks for cover)

@scottalanmiller @CCWTech - chiming in late... I inquired a couple of years back (a few perhaps ). They were just "Storware" then. From vague memory it was expensive and didn't inspire confidence. I ended up staying on Windows Server, utilising Hyper-V and Veeam.

Would be really interesting to see if they reinvigorate efforts for this product, at a realistic price (cough significantMLdiscountsforeveryone cough). Looks like they could use some marketing and increased product awareness out into the tech community.

PowerToys updated recently, v 0.16.0 - looks like it's already in Chocolatey (public)

Noticed it here -> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-updates-windows-10-powertoys-with-new-utilities/

github link -> https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.16.0

Has a "Bulk image resizer", SVG preview pane add-in etc

What caught my eye was "Window walker" (alt tab replacement) ..... anyone used it?

@scottalanmiller no updates required either, turn it on, it's ready

Seriously - this is fantastic stuff !!

Pi Case 40 - Kickstarter by Cooler Master (funded.... and then some)

experiencing the joy of multi-part Google Takeout for the remains of my Google Play Music collection

According to Kickstarter - it's now at €25,075 (US$ 31,249), 108 backers, with 28 days to go!

@scottalanmiller Agreed - I am looking forward to trying this on the Desktop side of things. Having the Fedora guys behind it should help with its implementation.

spent some time last night on this (I'm terrible, but its addictive)

I'm tentatively moving into my replacement daily driver - a Fedora Cinnamon Spin flavoured PC. ScreenConnect was problematic until I found @JaredBusch 's post "How to run JNLP files on Fedora Cinnamon with Firefox"

Any love for Flatpak or are most sticking with the native DNF + repos?

@mlnews as someone who is subject to the un-qualified whims, continual mis-steps and hamstringing of the Australian Govt on all things IT related, I can only shake my head. I used to use Dogpile back in the day, surely that still works

@Emad-R I think there's subtle differences, especially relating to seamless integration with particular distros. This might be down to the differences / approaches @scottalanmiller mentioned between the distros (and if the developers have a particular distro persuasion one way or the other - despite aiming to be agnostic)

I stumbled across Alexander Larrson's blog, interesting reading, even a Flatpak on WSL post!

I just hope that maybe, given these are fresh initiatives in a time of ever-increasing current security and privacy concerns, we're going to benefit from a better way of doing things?

@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews as someone who is subject to the un-qualified whims, continual mis-steps and hamstringing of the Australian Govt on all things IT related, I can only shake my head. I used to use Dogpile back in the day, surely that still works

They seem a bit clueless about anything more technical than pen and paper.
IMO it's an ass kissing exercise becuase the governemnt will be targets of smear campaigns by the organisations that stand to benefit from the arrangement... as in it'll hurt their re-election chances.

WHOA - slow down there with your "Pen" talk..... that's at least a decade away

This has been a huge issue for me, requiring additional complexity and overhead of a domain for reliably (and simply) enabling / using the "nice" features of Hyper-V.