Screen Recording with GNOME 3
So I just had a bit of an adventure here today with GNOME3 and trying to get screen recording to work. I run Debian 12 on all of my systems, and the screen recording works fine on my desktop but … Continue reading
Category Archives: computers
Stupid C++ Threads and Lambdas
For a unit test that I’m writing for some code at the moment, I need to create a thread that doesn’t do anything. Well, the easiest way to do this is to do a lambda function. And since we don’t … Continue reading
Programming can be crazy
Presented in no particular order, my list of “crazy program bugs/stories” that I find interesting, and refer to from time to time: The case of the extra 40 ms How I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors The Night … Continue reading
SSH Key Length Error
I wanted to SSH into a server of mine earlier today, but I was met with this error when I tried to SSH in using the key: There is some information on this about the exact SSH version that I … Continue reading
C++17 and Fold Expressions
So I’ve just come across this very cool feature in C++17 that I plan on using called ‘fold expressions’. This is basically a way of expanding a bunch of operations. It is also very hard for me to wrap my … Continue reading
Fun with templates
As you may be aware, I maintain dbus-cxx, and I’ve been working on it lately to get it ready for a new release. Most of that work is not adding new features, but updating the code generator to work correctly. … Continue reading
One large program or many little programs?
Earlier this week, I came across this question on softwareengineering.stackexchange.com. This has some relevance for me, since at work two of our main projects follow the two sides of this design philosophy: one project is a more monolithic application, and … Continue reading
Counting lines of code
So a few years ago, me and a coworker had to figure out how many lines of code we had. This was either for metrics or for because we were curious, I can’t really remember why. I came across the … Continue reading
Bitcoin Mining for a Useful Purpose?
So I was thinking about this the other day when I came across this article on Slashdot that points out that GPU prices are high due to the demand for Bitcoin(and other cryptocurrencies) mining. This got me thinking, what’s the … Continue reading
Intergalactics Source Code
Does anybody out there have the original source code to the Java game Intergalactics? I was able to pull the (compiled) client off of SourceForge, but without a server it’s not too useful. I did start updating the client to … Continue reading