• Hyper-V allows partitioning the GPU to pass through as a renderer engine to a Windows guest machine. This post outlines the steps to enable accelerated rendering in a Hyper-V guest.

  • Getting intel iGPU passed through to VM can be challenging. This post provides an step by step guide for full iGPU passthrough to Windows guest.

  • It is often useful to compress image files, especially when submitting them online and having to deal with limited file size & dimension requirements. This post describes using ImageMagick to compress image files.

  • Consumer versions of windows only allow a single RDP session at the same time. It’s possible to circumvent this limitation.

  • Creating symlinks is useful when you want different paths point to the same common file or folder.

  • Sometimes you may want to override UAC forcing privilege escalation when running programs that indicate admin rights in their manifests. Here’s how.

  • This was more painful than I thought.

  • The compatibility tab is hidden for Microsoft Windows’ system files. To work around this issue, you can mark the executable as hidpi aware directly in registry.

  • There are times where you may want to disallow a user to run any commands on the server, without completely disabling the account. For example, to allow an account to open port forwards, but no shell access.

  • Make samba fast

    Samba’s default settings are defined with security and compatibility in mind. In the modern world, we can trade off compatibility and some security for faster speed.