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Windows 10: Changing Hyper-V support at boot time

If you want to use Docker under Windows and the new Windows Sandbox feature, you have to enable Hyper-​V support. The problem is: You cannot run VMware Workstation or VirtualBox and Hyper-​V at the same time. This can easily be fixed by creating two boot configurations, where one has Hyper-V enabled and one has not.

June 4, 2019|Virtualization, Windows|

Changing labels in WordPress with the gettext filter

An easy way to change labels and strings in WordPress is to use a gettext filter. This post shows the different filter functions, their purpose, and how to implement a filter callback in the file functions.php to change labels and strings in themes, plugins, and widgets using a table of string replacements, even for different languages.

March 22, 2019|GDPR, PHP, Web Design, WordPress|

Running Linux GUI applications on Windows 10

Since the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update from 2017, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a fully supported Windows feature. In case you don't already know about that feature: WSL is a compatibility layer which allows running 64 bit Linux binary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 in a console window. It uses much fewer resources than a fully virtualized machine.

March 11, 2019|Linux, Virtualization, Windows|
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