After getting a fancy new monitor with G-Sync support, I was eager to try it out in my Linux gaming setup. While Nvidia fully supports G-Sync in their Linux drivers, it turns out that other components of the system can get in the way. As explained by a post on the Nvidia forums:
For G-SYNC to work, the application has to be able to flip and the symptoms you’re describing here sound like it’s not able to flip in your configuration.
When I decided I needed more disk space for media and virtual machine (VM) images, I decided to throw some more money at the problem and get three 3TB hard drives and run BTRFS in RAID5. It’s still somewhat experimental, but has proven very solid for me.
RAID5 means that one drive can completely fail, but all the data is still intact. All one has to do is insert a new drive and the drive will be reconstructed.
So I’ve been busy building my own RSS reader for the last few weeks. My motivation to make this app is because I got angry at gReader for displaying fullscreen-ads. The source is available on GitHub.
I started with an idea of targeting Android-L, but because it’s only in preview any app targeting L will be completely incompatible with earler versions. Hence I was forced to refrain from using the new RecyclerView which I really liked.
One group in particular suffers from lack of package management in Windows (as I griped about here): developers. This post will largely be a big howto on how to build Python packages with Fortran/C-extensions (especially Fortran extensions seem problematic on Windows). You’d think that something like that would be clearly explained somewhere. So did I, and I was wrong. So here is my guide to building Python packages with native extensions (both C and Fortran) on Windows.
disclaimer: I get angry when I have to fix Windows. Expect explicit content. You have been warned.
Being computer literate can be something of a curse. Anyone with even the most rudimentary skill set has probably sometime gotten asked if they could help someone with their computer. The other day I got asked if I could help, let’s call him Roger, as he was having some problems with Windows Update.