Daily Archives: May 22, 2023

• Getting started with winget

  Posted on May 22, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Simon Bisson • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.21 • 2023-05-22

  WINDOWS

  

  By Simon Bisson

  If you’ve used Linux, you’ll be familiar with package managers such as Debian’s apt and Red Hat’s yum.

  They keep track of what’s installed on your computer — downloading updates and installing new software, managing dependencies so you always have the right libraries for your code. Drop into your command line, type a few keystrokes, and you’re automatically up to date.

  Windows hasn’t really had the same design philosophy.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.21.0, 2023-05-22).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Windows 10 App Management, Deployment, Newsletters, Windows, winget

• No NumLock key? Problem solved! Here’s the fix.

  Posted on May 22, 2023 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  Most laptop makers are now leaving the NumLock key out of their smaller notebooks.

  That’s a disaster for people who’ve been getting symbols that aren’t on their keyboard by entering Alt+number — for instance, typing Alt+0169 on the numeric keypad to get the copyright sign (©).

  Some laptops have a function key for a “hidden” numeric keypad. But I’ll show you much easier ways. Read this today, and you’ll be writing documents faster — mañana!

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.21.0, 2023-05-22).

  Public Defender Keyboard remapping, Keyboards, Newsletters, NumLock, TenKeyLess, Windows

• Windows Storage Spaces

  Posted on May 22, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  HARDWARE DIY

  

  By Will Fastie

  I decided to try Storage Spaces on Opal, just to see what it would be like.

  It’s a mixed bag. On the one hand, it’s less technically challenging than the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) solution that lives partly in UEFI and partly in a Windows driver. On the other hand, it’s a work in progress, with some confusing configuration steps.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.21.0, 2023-05-22).

  Hardware DIY, Newsletters, RAID, RAID 1, Storage Spaces, Windows

• Is Secure Boot important for security?

  Posted on May 22, 2023 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  During the last few months, some chinks have appeared in Secure Boot’s armor as the result of various attacks and vulnerabilities.

  Let’s go back in history and understand how we got here.

  When a computer boots up, and before the operating system is launched, other code runs. For many years, that was the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) pioneered by IBM in the original IBM PC. Unfortunately, inventive attackers found ways to permanently install malicious code as part of this launch sequence.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.21.0, 2023-05-22).

  On Security IPSec, Microsoft Outlook, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, Secure Boot, VPN