Ben's Journal

Every so often I find that I want to access a Micro SD card from within Linux on my Windows WSL2 setup. I put the card in my laptop a...

Back in the day*, here's what a laptop trackpad looked like: They had the familiar space to position your screen's cur...

When Linux and Windows Can Talk Let's say I'm in an Ubuntu WSL2 session and I want to copy a file to Google Drive. The latest...

I've officially transitioned from Cygwin to Ubuntu on WSL 2 as my preferred Unix environment on Windows. Cygwin performed well for ...

Like most programmers, I've got two monitors and a dislike for taking my fingers off the home-row. On my Mac, I was inspired to wr...

I just wrote this long and winding tale about how Windows PowerShell exceeded my expecations. Consider this post a sort of TL;DR for t...

A Windows Version, Please A friend wanted to use my ffmpeg video packaging script . But there was a catch: he needed it to run on W...

I recently replaced my no-name mini PC with a might-as-well-be-no-name Kingdel NC860 mini PC. These fanless desktop computers have a great...

When it comes to programmatically working with documents, I'm all about Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. But I recently found myself ne...

As I went to blog about my new Mac-Mini , I searched for a post describing the Windows computer that would be the Mini's neighbor. To ...

OK, I'm not quite sure I'd call myself an Apple Fanboy just yet (as I'm typing this post on a Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard). Ho...

While this may be obvious, I was pretty dang pleased with myself when I managed to turn the Caps Lock key on my Windows 10 computer into an...

A few weeks back, after much nagging, I upgraded my Windows 8 laptop to Windows 10. The results so far have been pretty underwhelming. Fo...

While I found quite a few nuances of the Lumia 640 running Windows Phone OS enjoyable, my little experiment has wound down. I'm back t...

When I switched one of my work laptops to Linux , I assumed that I'd run into a handful of Windows-only apps that would make the switch...

I always keep two laptops in rotation and every Monday I toggle back and forth between the one I'm using. At the moment, one runs Windo...

Back in the day, compiling a Linux kernel would take hours. To make life easier, I'd kick off the task and have it notify me when it w...

This morning I installed the Adobe AIR SDK on one my laptops that had never been used for Air development. I kicked off adt.bat from wit...

I'm using ffmpeg to convert flv files to avi files. The goal is to generate videos that any old version of Windows Media Player can ...

Shira picked up a new laptop a week or so ago. Transferring the files from her old computer to the new one was going to be trivial. She us...