If you are trying to debug your website using Visual Studio 2017 and Chrome with an HTTPS link you might encounter an error in Chrome because of the new security restrictions. I was asked by someone for help to fix an error message being displayed in Chrome ERR_SPDY_INADEQUATE_TRANSPORT_SECURITY on their Windows 10 (1607) desktop. If […]
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Running the Ubuntu VSTS Agent on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
I was playing with the new ASP.NET Core Template in Visual Studio 2017 and I thought it would be interesting to spin up a Linux Agent right on my Windows 10 Pro installation. UPDATE: September 5th, 2017 – Upgrade Git Client to 2.14.1 from 2.7.4 Turn Windows Features On or Off You need to enable […]
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//build/Toronto
Didn’t make it to //build then come to the Design Exchange in Toronto, Canada on June 12th. What is //build: LIVE ONLINE? It’s a one day lecture-style event featuring Microsoft experts, key announcements, demos and Windows 10 deep dives for app and web. You can see Joe Stegma (delivering Keynote), Jeff Burtoft (@boyofgreen), Nikola Metulev […]
Continue readingVirtual CloneDrive Supports Vista x64!
Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files (ISO, BIN, CCD) can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive. Probably the best virtual drive […]
Continue reading4GB SD cards and ReadyBoost
So this time I decided to get serious with ReadyBoost on Vista. I went out and purchased a 8GB SD card not knowing that SDHC is a format not supported by any of my laptops….luckily I checked before opening the package and returned it. In its place I got two 4GB SD cards….what a circus […]
Continue readingWindows Vista Ultimate x64 and my Compaq NX9600
I finally got a driver for my card slot device (it’s only been a year!), it turns out the NX9420 uses the same hardware so I downloaded the driver and installed it and voila! If you have a Compaq NX9420 and want to run Windows Vista x64 here is a blog entry that will step […]
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