Virtual Realm

Renaming a WSL Distro

Mykre — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 03:17:49 +0000

I Recently had the need to change the name of one of the Distro’s on my WSL Environment, this is the process I followed to rename it.

Stop all instances of WSL
```
wsl --shutdown
```

Open Registry Editor and go to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss

Find the distro you want to rename, look for the key
```
DistributionName
```
Change the key DistributionName to the desired value
Verify by running the following
```
wsl -l -v
```
This will list the running Distros

Upgrading the WSL Distro

Mykre — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:22:18 +0000

This process is how I went through upgrading my WSL Distro. This process completed an in place up grade of the system. I could have just re downloaded the new distro as I hadn’t save much content to the image. But as I plan on doing so this was a good chance to go through the process.

Checking the current version

lsb_release -a

Returns the following,

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 19.10
Release:        19.10
Codename:       eoan

Next I needed to make sure that I was on the latest version of the current release.

sudo apt update
sudo apt list --upgradable
sudo apt upgrade

Next I cleaned up any packages that were no longer needed

sudo apt --purge autoremove

Now to update the core manager package

sudo apt install update-manager-core

Finally to start the upgrade

sudo do-release-upgrade

At this point i left the system to do it’s thing and complete the upgrade. This could take some time as it downloads all of the packages that it needs.

During the install you are asked a couple of times to authorize and continue. When this is done the system will restart.

At this point you just need to restart the WSL terminal session and check the version.

lsb_release -a

and the output returned is.

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

Updating Azure Scripting Tools

Mykre — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:15:28 +0000

I use the various scripting tools for azure on a daily bases, so because of this I put together this little script that I run to update the toolsets.
It currently does the azureCLI and az Powershell Modules, only simple but it does what I need.

You will need to run the script under an Administrator Prompt.

# Update the AzureCLI system on Windows
Write-Host "Installing/Updating the AzureCLI Components"
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://aka.ms/installazurecliwindows -OutFile .\AzureCLI.msi; Start-Process msiexec.exe -Wait -ArgumentList '/I AzureCLI.msi /quiet'

# Update the Powershell az Modules
Write-Host "Installing/Updating the Azure PowerShell Modules"
Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber -Force

# Gather the version information
# Get-InstalledModule -Name Az -AllVersions | select-object Name,Version

Write-Host "Updating the Azure Components Complete"

RaspberryPi Finding the Hardware Version

Mykre — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 04:29:33 +0000

Finding the hardware version of you RaspberryPi is actually Quite easy. Once you have the system up and running, Connect to the terminal and run the following Commands.

cat /proc/cpuinfo

This will return a heap of information on the CPU, At the Bottom you will see two sections. Hardware and Revision. If you take the values returned here and look through the following Web Site you will find the hardware and model of the Pi unit you have. It will also detail the components installed on the boards.

https://elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory

The Link Above also has several other ways to grab the information.

Python for Beginners

Mykre — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 20:50:32 +0000

Great video series produced my Microsoft to help get started with Python.

SQL Server 2019 Learning Series

Mykre — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:36:23 +0000

Here is a great set of videos for SQL Server 2019.

Xbox Series X trailer

Mykre — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 06:20:11 +0000

Introducing the new Xbox Series X, Looking forward to this. Specially with the Backwards compatibility support.

Using Python in Blender

Mykre — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 22:54:05 +0000

Found this really good intro to using Python inside the Blender 3d engine.

Link

Back into Blender 2.8

Mykre — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 02:53:51 +0000

For a while I have been using the Blender 3D package for most of my work, But over the last few years work and life have taken me elsewhere. But it is about time I jumped back in. In one of the Facebook groups that I am in I came across the CG Fast Track YouTube channel and a set of free tutorials, they looked simple and easy to follow so I thought I would give them a go. Hopefully I will post my progress…

Teaser Trailer for the Series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRMnvatcfLg

Link to Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyjSnak3Yjo&t=282s

RaspberryPi Raspbian Buster Image Release

Mykre — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 01:36:03 +0000

I am a little bit behind, but the RaspberryPi guys have released the Raspbian Buster images which includes support for the RaspberryPi 4 Devices.

Download Link: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

As usual you have the choice of, Full Image with recommended Apps, just the Desktop or a Lite version.

Version release Notes

2019-06-20:

Based on Debian Buster
Support for Raspberry Pi 4 hardware
FKMS OpenGL desktop graphics driver and xcompmgr compositing window manager used when running on Raspberry Pi 4
Screen Configuration application added for use with FKMS driver
Raspberry Pi 4 video output options added to Raspberry Pi Configuration
Uses new PiXflat UI theme for GTK and Openbox
CPU activity gauge plugin no longer shown on taskbar by default
CPU temperature gauge plugin added (not shown by default)
USB ejecter and Bluetooth taskbar icons hidden when not appropriate
Version 74.0.3729.157 of Chromium web browser included
Version 32.0.0.207 of Flash player included
IDLE Python IDE removed
Wolfram Mathematica removed temporarily due to incompatibility with Buster
Display of package sizes removed from Recommended Software
Appearance Settings modified to support independent settings for two monitors
Oracle Java 7 and 8 replaced with OpenJDK 11
Miscellaneous small bug fixes
On-board 5GHz WiFi blocked by rfkill by default
The block is removed when taking one of the following actions:
    – Selecting a locale in the first run wizard
    – Setting the WiFi country in the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool or the Network Settings applet
    – Setting the WiFi country in raspi-config
    – Providing a wpa_supplicant.conf file through the boot partition
    – Running ‘rfkill unblock wifi’
Boot partition size set to 256M
Linux kernel 4.19.50
Raspberry Pi firmware 88ca9081f5e51cdedd16d5dbc85ed12a25123201