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My experience tri-booting a Late 2013 MacBook Pro

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 20 March, 2022 - 10:38 |20 March, 2022 Other Posts

Tri-booting macOS, Windows 10, and Linux Mint 20.3 on a Late 2013 MacBook Pro is far harder than it has any right to be! Continue reading →

Adventures in Cygwin’s fork performance

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 1 February, 2021 - 09:47 |30 January, 2022 Linux Distros, Other Posts

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In this post I attempt to diagnose and resolve my Cygwin performance issues, in particular for the fork() call. Read this post to learn more. Continue reading →

DDRescue-GUI Windows bundle released! Get it now

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 16 October, 2020 - 13:12 |30 January, 2022 Programming

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The DDRescue-GUI Windows bundle is out! It’s taken a while, but it’s turned out really well. Read this post to learn more and for download links. Continue reading →

Progress Update for DDRescue-GUI on Windows: wxPython 4.x support!

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 8 July, 2020 - 11:49 |8 July, 2020 Programming, Upcoming programs

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It’s been a while since I talked about getting DDRescue-GUI running on Windows, but I have made some progress on this recently, and I thought it would be good to share the news. There are still quite a lot of hurdles I have to get over before it’s all done,… Continue reading →

Booting from an NVME SSD on an older PC using Clover

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 25 May, 2020 - 14:03 |4 January, 2021 Tutorials

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The adaptor card inserted into my GPU cage

In this post, I show you how to install and boot from an NVME drive on an older PC that doesn’t have an M.2 slot. Read this post to learn more. Continue reading →

Something a little different: My new Ryzen PC Part 4 – configuration

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 22 April, 2020 - 13:52 |22 April, 2020 Other Posts

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This is the last post in my 4-part series about my new Ryzen PC. In this part, I’m covering the build goofs I made, and configuration notes and issues. Continue reading →

Windows 7 End Of Life and DDRescue-GUI on Windows

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 16 January, 2020 - 19:37 |16 January, 2020 Other Posts, Programming

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Windows 7 reached end of life on January 14, 2020. Windows 7 is also supported with DDRescue-GUI, so this post sets out my Windows support plan. Continue reading →

A look at Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – a thing worked first time!

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 28 February, 2019 - 16:26 |28 February, 2019 Linux Distros, Other Posts

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In this post I take a quick look at Windows Subsystem for Linux, and even see if I can get graphical applications running like I’ve heard you can! Continue reading →

CloudReady Part 2: Another stab at getting Linux containers to work.

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 24 January, 2019 - 22:16 |24 January, 2019 Linux Distros

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In this post, I try to get the Linux containers working in CloudReady again, this time on my laptop. Surely this will be easier than in VMare? Continue reading →

Cygwin Part 2.5 – a brief interlude

By Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty | 10 August, 2018 - 13:45 |10 August, 2018 Linux Distros, Programming

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In this quick followup, I demonstrate DDRescue-GUI running in Cygwin in a more native-looking way, which shows how it may operate if I release for Windows. Continue reading →

Tag Archives: windows

My experience tri-booting a Late 2013 MacBook Pro

Adventures in Cygwin’s fork performance

DDRescue-GUI Windows bundle released! Get it now

Progress Update for DDRescue-GUI on Windows: wxPython 4.x support!

Booting from an NVME SSD on an older PC using Clover

Something a little different: My new Ryzen PC Part 4 – configuration

Windows 7 End Of Life and DDRescue-GUI on Windows

A look at Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – a thing worked first time!

CloudReady Part 2: Another stab at getting Linux containers to work.

Cygwin Part 2.5 – a brief interlude

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