Rclone saved the day

September 11, 2019

Connecting to cloud storage is becoming more and more frequent. Never before so many datasources and resources in general were in the cloud before. When it comes to Linux and Microsoft, there are still some gaps in integration, and one of them is the OneDrive. Fortunately, the rclone project demonstrated that it is a serious […]

Docker

Docker for Windows + Virtual Box

August 23, 2018

I decided to try Docker at the current version. After reading the Readme file, just stated that it will not run along with VirtualBox in the same machine. Once my job requires Virtual Box + Vagrant, a search for a solution came out to two different approaches: 1 – Install the old version of Docker […]

Linux flavors running natively under Windows

April 3, 2018

As weird as it could sound by that time, this day has arrived around 2 years ago and seem to be more stable each day. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about The official Microsoft page is astonishing for a first reading, and surely it worth a copy here. It sounds as something that should not be considered to be used […]

Remote joystick

January 18, 2012

Most remote access systems are not able to control joysticks, especially the generic ones. Do you want to control devices using joystick remotely? Well, there is a way: 1 – Choose your preferred computer language; 2 – Pick an ordinary joystick; 3 – Disable polling functions if it has that; 4 – On your program, […]