Blogs

Access is denied is a truly wonderful error.

With a drop in testing and in it’s place, a variety of fast and slow rings to roll out updates to Windows 10 users globally, many are clamouring for the latest major revision to Windows 10 entitled ‘Creators Update’ (or for those with a liking for codenames or versions, that’s Redstone 2 and 1703 for you).

Windows 10 Creators Update was made available to the masses on Tuesday gone by.

At some point last year I decided to expand my love of Pi from the A+ unit I have played with over the last couple of years to a shiny Zero (which has since been replaced with the Zero W which includes Wireless and Bluetooth) and the Unicorn pHAT from the pirates at Pimoroni.

I hit a brick wall today while smashing together various PowerShell code snippets for a script I am working on (that I’ll share later).

Now that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has been released to the masses in Windows 10 Anniversary Update and you have have installed the feature and had a play, What happens if you want to start from scratch and reset everything to a fresh state?

No no, the latest update to Windows 10 will not make you want to bash your head against a brick wall; Update 1607, otherwise known as Anniversary Update 1 (code name Redstone 1) brings a very surprising feature to the Windows landscape; Linux on Windows.

Part 1 of the series saw us signing up to Twitter and getting access to the API to send tweets, setting up Twython and developing out shutdown script.

As explained in a previous series of mine, I run a small Bitcoin mining operation on my Raspberry Pi.

Sysadmin’s start your engines (err… servers?