Murre

Windows 10 Desktop computer ordered on 2017-09-11

Rhymes with blur. This is not a Common Murre, though black and white, this one is flightless.

Replacement for Laysan. I just wanted more RAM and ended up replacing everything but the drives!

Hardware

• 2020-05-25 Corsair Neutron GTX SS migrated from Dart, for WSL2 usage.
• 2020-04-21 Dell P2415Q 24" 4K monitor installed, it is GREAT so far. Dell site for docs
• 2020-04- HyperX DAC for headphones gives me audio controls including a mic mute button. Works great so far with my Bowers & Wilkins headphones.
• 2020-03-23 EVGA Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 8GB and Samsung 4K Monitor ordered. The monitor was awful, returned it.
• 2019-04-26 Installed Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe
• 2018-01-08 I followed these instructions to set up Murre to power down automatically every night if I forget to do it. https://www.maketecheasier.com/automatically-shutdown-windows-at-night/
• 2017-12-01 Cyberpower UPS CST135XLU added.
• 2017-09-15 Up and running
• 2 x Seagate Barracuda SATA 3.0 in RAID 0, mounted at D:

• Nvidia Quadro 2000D video card 2560x2048 resolution (retired now)

These parts ordered 9/11/17

• ASUS TUF X299 Mark 2 motherboard (Warranty 5 year)
• Intel Core i9-7900X Skylake-X 10 core CPU (Warranty 3 year)
• Cooler Master "MasterLiquid Lite 120" liquid CPU cooler with one 120mm fan (Warranty 3 year)
• 64 GB RAM G.Skill TridentZ (4x16) DDR4 3200 (leaves 4 slots free) (Lifetime warranty)
• Seasonic SS-750KM3 750W 80plus Gold modular power supply (Warranty 7 year)

Lilliput

2020-04-04 -- The 7" Lilliput works because Windows supports DisplayLink. I did upgrade the driver from the one at displaylink.com

Backups

2019-04-03 -- I just did a backup of the C: using the Windows 7 backup program, so that I have it saved in case my upgrade with the new SSD NVME goes sideways. It took ALL NIGHT.

2019-04-01 -- I installed Backup and Sync from Google and set my Documents folder to copy there.

Software

List of installed software

• 7-Zip
• Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
• Adobe Digital Editions
• ArcGIS Coordinate Systems Data
• ArcGIS Pro
• Contour Shuttle
• Garmin Basecamp
• Garmin City Navigator
• Garmin Express
• Garmin USB drivers
• GIMP
• Git
• Git for windows - VSCode wants this, even if you have Cygwin
• HL-L1320D printer
• ICOM CS-F11 -- see spreadsheet for license code
• Inkscape
• LibreOffice 7
• Logitech Webcam Software
• MCP-F6/F7 (Kenwood programming software) (FREE)
• Microsoft Visual Studio Code
• Nvidia drivers
• Samsung Magician
• Slack
• UltraVNC is installed since I can't get X11 to work.
• VLC media player
• Wacom (Bamboo driver)
• Zoom

Note on Docker and VirtualBox

2020-05-25 I am migrating from Docker Desktop to Podman.

Using Docker with Hyper-V (part of Windows 10 Pro)

Making Podman work

This process feels a lot like the olden pre-Docker days.

• Install Debian from the Microsoft Store, as strange as that sounds
• Install the prerequisites.

apt install curl
apt install gnupg2

• Install the repository per these instructions.

# Debian 10
echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/Debian_10/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devel:kubic:libcontainers:stable.list
curl -L https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/Debian_10/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -

• Install podman itself

apt update -qq
apt upgrade
apt install podman

podman --version
podman version 1.9.3

I was sort of hoping for version 2, but pressing on anyway. Does this work? Strangely enough it does.

podman run docker.io/library/hello-world
Trying to pull docker.io/library/hello-world...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 0e03bdcc26d7 done
Copying config bf756fb1ae done
Writing manifest to image destination
Storing signatures

Hello from Docker!
This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:
 1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
 2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub.
    (amd64)
 3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the
    executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
 4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it
    to your terminal.

To try something more ambitious, you can run an Ubuntu container with:
 $ docker run -it ubuntu bash

Share images, automate workflows, and more with a free Docker ID:
 https://hub.docker.com/

For more examples and ideas, visit:
 https://docs.docker.com/get-started/

Synology Cloud Station Drive

I rsync'ed all the TrailPeople data over from Plover and then I linked the server. That avoided pulling a fresh copy of every file over from the server.

Audio output to two places

With Windows 10 is possible to have audio directed out to 2 sets of speakers at the same time, in my case a pair of powered speakers plugged into the Realtek sound output of the motherboard (which is set as Default Device) and a Bose Mini II connected over bluetooth. I found helpful instructions here.

It is not intuitive. For one thing I don't understand how a "headset" can be a Recording Device.

Be sure to look at the Sound Control Panel, not the Sound Settings. Did I mention how weird Windows 10 is??

It's freaky that you have to type "Control Panel" to get at it, or dig around at the bottom of the Sound Settings. Also it's very freaky that getting the output settings correct required a reboot. What is this, Windows 98?

Printing

First I installed the Brother drivers from their site. Then used the CUPS IPP printer, by typing it into Windows: http://192.168.123.2:631/printers/brother_hll2320d and then specifying the correct driver in the Windows wizard.

LibreOffice Base

To get Base to work with MySQL, I had to install the 64-bit version of Oracle's JRE and I had to install the MySQL Connector/J file from the Community Edition of MySQL Client bundle.

See Tools->Options->Advanced and set Java to point at the folder which is in c:\Program Files\Java\ and set the Class Path to the JDBC driver for MySQL

Operating system

Windows 10 Pro, Full version installed on NVME

• 2020-05-25 version is now Windows 10 Pro version 2004 build 19041.264
• 2020-05-25 upgrade to allow installation of WSL2, so that I can try out Podman.
• 2020-05 previous version was Windows 10 Pro version 1909 build 18363.836

Stupid Windows 10 annoyances

Home drive is synced to OneDrive by default

Change your home directory to move it out of OneDrive.

Disconnect your account from Microsoft.

• Click on "Start" (or rather the icon :-)
• Click on the profile picture.
• Click on "Change account info"
• Click the thing that now says "Sign in with a Microsoft account instead" that says something else before you click on it because I already changed it.

This means your settings won't be saved to Microsoft, I don't care because I only have this one Windows machine. Instead I currently let Google spy on me via Chrome instead.

Change to Focus follows mouse

I used X-Mouse Controls:

https://superuser.com/questions/954021/how-do-you-enable-focus-follows-mouse-in-windows-10