Mostly Software

  • Monday

    • Supercontest.
      • Updated to bring season_end in, fixed some logic, default route to leaderboard, banner for winner.
    • Upgraded my computer to windows 11.
      • Had to enable TPM (trusted platform module, hw-based security, available on custom motherboards but usually disabled by default) in BIOS first.
      • For secure boot, UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) instead of CSM (Compatibility Support Module, legacy BIOS support). The storage device (boot partition) must also be GPT (GUID Partition Table) instead of MBR (Master Boot Record, legacy). My disk has 3 partitions, system reserved (50MB NTFS), recovery (500MB), C (1TB). It was MBR, so I had to mbr2gpt.exe to convert to GPT. Had to reagentc /disable the enable after (RE = Recovery Environment).
      • Had to run installation agent twice, peculiar. Also had to reinstall speaker drivers to fix sound after.
      • Looks like this fixed my second-monitor-lagginess as well.
    • Setup wsl+x11.
      • Installed vGPU driver for nvidia geforce (win11).
      • I always forget: CUDA = Compute Unified Device Architecture.
      • Updated WSL to 5.10.60.1 (includes linux gui support).
      • Can copy-paste between win and lin, tab through windows across both OSs, more.
      • Expanded the ext4 VDH to 512GB to store the whole btc blockchain.
    C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.22000.1

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: BMAHLSTEDT

DISKPART> Select vdisk file="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_<x>\LocalState\ext4.vhdx"

DiskPart successfully selected the virtual disk file.

DISKPART> detail vdisk

Device type ID: 0 (Unknown)
Vendor ID: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} (Unknown)
State: Added
Virtual size:  256 GB
Physical size: 3103 MB
Filename: C:\Users\Brian Mahlstedt\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_<x>\LocalState\ext4.vhdx
Is Child: No
Parent Filename:
Associated disk#: Not found.

DISKPART> expand vdisk maximum=512000

  100 percent completed

DiskPart successfully expanded the virtual disk file.
    • Bitcoin node.
      • https://bitcoin.org/en/download.
      • bitcoin-qt for the gui or bitcoind to start core then bitcoin-cli.
      • Synced 100% (13 years!) of the blockchain. Express was disconnecting me (and throttling) every couple minutes so had to disable vpn.