Old School Bootable USB Windows Creation

I was reviewing several old directories and I found different Windows recipes and scripts that I used often some time ago Basically the following are the steps to create a Windows booteable disk from command line What you will need: a flash drive (back in my time with 4GB was more than enough but I can see that current Windows 10 ISO is almost 6GB) and a Windows ISO file ...

April 24, 2021 · 2 min · Mario Moreno

Hardy Heron promise

Back in 2008 I was a fulltime senior .NET developer. .NET Framework 3.5 was recently released, Visual Studio 2008, TFS 2008, SQL Server 2008, Silverlight, Windows Vista.. I was fully commited to .NET and all Microsoft related technologies and products Also by that time I was able to bought my first laptop. My choice was a HP Pavilion TX which ended being more beautiful than powerfull but it was mine to try and investigate new technologies ...

February 18, 2021 · 3 min · Mario Moreno

Old Raspberry Pi commands

Back in 2015 I was in United States on vacations an decided to bought a Raspberry Pi Canakit. The latest model at that moment was 2 B and the possibilities were infite: learn bash, play movies in a non-smart TV, remote play music, task automation The reality was a little different. It ended mostly resting in a drawer of my desk until I decided to sell it in 2017.. Maybe lots of you share a similar story ...

November 30, 2019 · 3 min · Mario Moreno

Ten Years Later

Ten years ago, well, in fact I’m talking about 2008 so this should had be written last year. In 2008, I was in the second year working for a small company in Buenos Aires. It was my first professional full .NET job. My daily work involved Visual Studio for coding, Team Foundation Server as source control and issue tracker and deploying applications in a semi automatic way, sometimes involving remote desktop a server to troubleshoot a problem. All over Microsoft Windows platform. ...

April 2, 2019 · 2 min · Mario Moreno

Removable drive custom icon

Several years ago I used to have have three removable drives in use. Two external disks for information backup, three replicas (inspired in MongoDB replication schema) and one flash drive for quick information sharing. At that time I decided that it would be a good idea to name them with some fancy names. After a quick thinking (and as a Diablo 2 fan) there was no other option than the three unique Necromancer shrunken head items: ...

September 9, 2018 · 2 min · Mario Moreno