So yesterday, I got excited at the notion of DirectX 12 on Linux and well… now that there’s been a bit of time and discussion of this in kernel maintainer discussion threads, it’s not quite what I thought. The fact that the DX12 library is going to be closed source would be a real problem… Continue reading more from the snowstorm in hell
and finally, a snow storm broke out in hell today…
So for a large chunk of my life, I didn’t like using Microsoft products. Why? Well, a youth of Visual Basic 6 high school computing assignments for one. VB6 has made more money than God, but on the other hand it epitomised for my everything I disliked about Microsoft: it was slow, locked down to… Continue reading and finally, a snow storm broke out in hell today…
have i not got news for you
Maybe it was the SARS reboot that did it. Or Harley Quinn fans going to war with Sonic the Hedgehog fans. Or Election 2020 fever over the seeming inevitability of a Bernie Sanders candidacy and the apparent extreme socialism he will bring in (in the UK he’d be a fairly mainstream social democrat), or the… Continue reading have i not got news for you
so this is christmas…
and what have I done? OK. Couldn’t resist starting my blog this way. I think I’ve managed to avoid the wrath of the copyright lawyers of John Lennon’s estate though because it is a fair comment… what have I done? Personally, it’s been a bit of a “steady as it goes” year. I’ve been working… Continue reading so this is christmas…
rhel 7 to centos 7 migration: the road to happiness
So in my professional life I do a lot of work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It’s stable, rock-solid (mostly) and easy to use… but however unlike many distros, it comes with a subscription. This is fine: developers gotta eat, and however many anti-capitalist rants people like to go off on, if Linux wasn’t making… Continue reading rhel 7 to centos 7 migration: the road to happiness
pop goes the computer
To those outside of the Linux world, “Linux” is taken to be like “Windows” or “Mac OS”. To those of us who use it regularly, it’s actually “GNU/Linux” as it’s the combination of the GNU userland with the Linux kernel, and variations on this actually form a whole galaxy of operating systems that share a… Continue reading pop goes the computer
the sunday bagel
So usually, once a week on a Sunday (although I broke my rule this time and did it on a Saturday), I post the following: Indeed, every time I have a bagel I do this. In years to come, I will be offered shots of bagels by Facebook when its machine learning algorithms identify that… Continue reading the sunday bagel
on the decline of game shops
So I log onto Twitter today, and an awful lot of devs and other games-related people are talking about the decline of GameStop. GameStop, for those of you who didn’t know, was/is basically America’s answer to GAME, that place that was once relevant but now really isn’t worth visiting much. I’m not going to try… Continue reading on the decline of game shops
on being “stuck”
So begins a new year, and I suppose another one of those blog posts where I muse on updating regularly here. It seems that I am actually not that great at maintaining a blog, at least regularly… and I regularly promise that I will remedy this! Indeed, I wondered what was causing me not to… Continue reading on being “stuck”
vulkan ubuntu 18.04 upgrade problems: the road to happiness
Maybe I should make “The Road To Happiness” a series or something, but I’ve been having some knotty little problems with getting the Vulkan SDK working since upgrading from my old Ubuntu 16.04 installation to the nice, shiny new Ubuntu 18.04. One of the helpful things that happened was that my Vulkan SDK I downloaded from… Continue reading vulkan ubuntu 18.04 upgrade problems: the road to happiness
