Category Archives: Operating Systems

Deleting partitions with diskpart on Windows

PowerShell as Administrator:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.3636

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP-0DRJUG2

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          476 GB   476 GB        *
  Disk 1    Online         5589 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 2    Online         5589 GB  1024 KB        *
  Disk 3    Online          931 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 4    Online           14 GB      0 B
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Building QT 6.6.2 for Windows and Android

I installed MS Visual Studio, Android Studio and the following tools:

cmake-3.24.2-windows-x86_64
nasm-2.15.05
ninja-win
Python35
Strawberry
VulkanSDK
x86_64-12.2.0-release-win32-seh-rt_v10-rev0

and built QT for Windows with the following commands:

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Configuring RAID on Auros Z390 mainboard

I installed Intel RST driver:

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Installing GCC13 on Ubuntu 22.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gcc-13 g++-13
ll /usr/bin/gcc-13
ll /usr/bin/g++-13
update-alternatives --display gcc
ll /etc/alternatives/g*
sudo update-alternatives --remove-all gcc 
sudo update-alternatives --remove-all g++
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-13 10 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-13
g++ --version
gcc --version

App execution aliases on Windows

Turn them off to make Python work:

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Sharing Android phone over TCP with ADB

I was able to share my Android phone over TCP with the following commands:

adb kill-server
start cmd /k adb -a -P 5037 nodaemon server start
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Building RenderDoc for Android on WSL

I cloned the repository, created build directory, set environment variables and run CMake:

git clone https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc.git
cd renderdoc/
mkdir build-android
cd build-android
export JAVA_HOME=~/dev/repos/graphicsprofiler/tools/buildtools/jdk
export ANDROID_SDK=~/dev/repos/graphicsprofiler/tools/buildtools/android
export ANDROID_NDK=~/dev/repos/graphicsprofiler/tools/buildtools/android/ndk-bundle/android-ndk-r20b
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
cmake -DBUILD_ANDROID=On -DANDROID_ABI=armeabi-v7a ..
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Running GUI apps on WSL

Updating existing WSL installation

I updated WSL according to this MS guide:

wsl --update
wsl --shutdown
wsl --version
WSL version: 1.2.0.0
Kernel version: 5.15.90.1
WSLg version: 1.0.51
MSRDC version: 1.2.3770
Direct3D version: 1.608.2-61064218
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.19045.2604
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How I installed VNC on Ubuntu 22.04

I followed this guide, run the following command from WSL:

ssh -L 59000:localhost:5901 -C -N -l dmitriano $VNC_IP

and was able to connect with UltraVNC client:

Installed FireFox browser as described here.

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Connecting to Ubuntu 22.04 with Remote Desktop

I simply installed:

sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop-minimal -y
sudo apt install xrdp -y
systemctl status xrdp

and was able to connect with Remote Desktop from Windows as root user:

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