Murre

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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

  • 2020-04-21 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 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 added.
  • 2017-09-15 Up and running
  • WD Black 512GB Performance SSD - M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive - WDS512G1X0C
  • 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)
  • Fractal Designs Meshify C case (my least favorite part since it has no 5.25" drive slot; I liked Laysan's case more.)

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

  • Adobe Acrobat DC
  • Cygwin including git, python, wget
  • Git for windows - VSCode wants this, even if you have Cygwin
  • Docker for Windows (requires HyperV from Windows 10 Pro)
  • PERSONAL license: ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 10.8, ArcGIS Pro 2.5
  • Libreoffice 6
  • Microsoft Visual Studio (free Community version)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  • Backup and Sync for Google Drive

Using Docker with HyperV (part of Windows 10 Pro) is not compatible with VirtualBox. If I want to run virtual machines here I will need to run them under HyperV.

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
  • 2020-05-25 upgrade to allow installation of WSL2, so that I can try out Podman.
  • 2020-05 previous version was 10.0.18362

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

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