For this quick tutorial, I will be using Disk2VHD, which is part of the Systernals Suite (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd). With this tool, I could successfully convert machines running Windows 2003 Server and Windows 10. The success factor depends mostly on time and patience :). Use cases Backing up an old server running an old ERP database. Hardware … Continue reading Converting a physical machine to a virtual machine (P2V)
WebCatalog – Running web apps on the desktop, Check!
Update, since July 1st, 2023 WebCatalog dropped Linux support. Linux has been my daily driver for almost 13 years (Mandrake Linux 7 and Red Hat Linux 9 don't count since I ended up coming back to Windows ASAP). It all started as an experiment; Ubuntu 10.04 was the chosen distribution, and such change brought some … Continue reading WebCatalog – Running web apps on the desktop, Check!
Installing Kernel 6.0.x on KDE Neon
A couple of years ago, I purchased a Z490 Aorus Elite mainboard; this monster has plenty of space for future updates. After installing KDE Neon 5, the ethernet card was not working. The culprit was the RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller or the lack of support for it. I managed to fix that issue by updating the … Continue reading Installing Kernel 6.0.x on KDE Neon
Tools of the trade: vagrant-scp
For this first quick tip I chose vagrant-scp, it is the "cousin" of vagrant-ssh, there are many use cases when you need to copy to or from a virtual machine defined in Vagrant.
Fixing “legacy trusted.gpg keyring DEPRECATED” on Ubuntu 22.04 based distros
I updated my laptop to the latest and greatest KDE Neon 5.26/Ubuntu 22.04 LTS; this task took me nearly 25 minutes, and everything went as expected, but a few packages with "legacy" GPG keyrings. That obnoxious message is visible when packages are updated from the terminal and will appear for each troubled repository. Fixing the … Continue reading Fixing “legacy trusted.gpg keyring DEPRECATED” on Ubuntu 22.04 based distros
Installing Docker Desktop on KDE Neon
Welcome to Waggos, the idea behind this little blog is to keep a list of handy tutorials and in the process to improve my technical writing skills; I hope this blog can help someone out there in a rush because I know it will help me shortly. Let's begin with the first tutorial. The recipe … Continue reading Installing Docker Desktop on KDE Neon
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