The enhanced session mode offers improved performance, hardware utilization, and features like copy & paste in the VM. To enable this in Ubuntu (or other OS), specific configurations and software installations are needed. Steps include VM setup, Ubuntu installation, XRDP & XORGXRDP installation, and configuring the VM server for enhanced session mode. Continue reading →

Series Links: 1, 2 (this entry) Today I’m going to walk through the install and setup of Packer, and get our first builds running for Azure. I started this work in the previous article in this series, “Development Workspace with Terraform on Azure: Part 1 – Install and Setup Terraform and Azure CLI“. This is... Continue reading →

May the database deluge begin, it’s time for “Bunches of Databases in Bunches of Weeks”. We’ll get into looking at databases similar to how they’re approached in “7 Databases in 7 Weeks“. In this session I got into a hard look at PostgreSQL or as some refer to it just Postgres. This is the first... Continue reading →

But to the rescue comes the search engine. I found some material on the matter and, as I’ve learned frequently, don’t count out Linux when it comes to support of nearly everything on Earth. Sure enough, there’s support for exFAT (really, why wouldn’t there be?) Check out this repo: https://github.com/relan/exfat There’s of course the git... Continue reading →

January 24th, 2017 UPDATE: After I wrote this, I spoke with the System 76 team and I’m getting the chance to go out and tour their Denver Headquarters. This happened well after I made my purchase, which all of the following was written after. But just for full transparency, I’ve added this note. Also, I’m... Continue reading →