Booting a virtual machine from a physical Windows disk partition

I am a long time Linux user (Mint being my preferred distro) and have dual booted Windows and Linux on every computer I have owned in the last decade. Recently, I have been using Linux Mint 19.3 as my primary operating system, booting into it more often than Windows 10. I do still use Windows … Continue reading Booting a virtual machine from a physical Windows disk partition

A really simple C# async example

Asynchronous programming is awesome, and C# makes it very easy with the .NET Task Parallel Library. At a high level, asynchronous programming is all about not letting independent tasks block each other so you can do more than one thing at a time. One common analogy used to describe the asynchronous pattern is cooking. Let's … Continue reading A really simple C# async example

Cool Windows Backgrounds

Here are some cool Windows backgrounds I found around the interwebs - all images 1920x1080 (full album here):