Programming Leftovers
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Mandriva Linux Chronicles: Missing package in Mageia 8
I attempted to update my Mageia desktop yesterday and, although almost everything went well, I got this error message telling me that imagemagick could not update because "nothing provided lib64raw20".
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curl sighting: Silk Road | daniel.haxx.se
In the 2021 movie Silk Road, at around 19:23-19:26 into the film we can see Ross Ulbricht, the lead character, write a program on his laptop that uses curl. A few seconds we get a look at the screen as Ross types on the keyboard and explains to the female character who says I didn’t know you know how to code that he’s teaching himself to write code.
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Losca: Running Cockpit inside ALP
ALP - The Adaptable Linux Platform – is a new operating system from SUSE to run containerized and virtualized workloads. It is in early prototype phase, but the development is done completely openly so it’s easy to jump in to try it.
For this trying out, I used the latest encrypted build – as of the writing, 22.1 – from ALP images. I imported it in virt-manager as a Generic Linux 2022 image, using UEFI instead of BIOS, added a TPM device (which I’m interested in otherwise) and referring to an Ignition JSON file in the XML config in virt-manager.
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a simple semi-space collector -- wingolog
Good day, hackfolk. Today's article is about semi-space collectors. Many of you know what these are, but perhaps not so many have seen an annotated implementation, so let's do that.
Just to recap, the big picture here is that a semi-space collector divides a chunk of memory into two equal halves or spaces, called the fromspace and the tospace. Allocation proceeds linearly across tospace, from one end to the other. When the tospace is full, we flip the spaces: the tospace becomes the fromspace, and the fromspace becomes the tospace. The collector copies out all live data from the fromspace to the tospace (hence the names), starting from some set of root objects. Once the copy is done, allocation then proceeds in the new tospace.
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Meson Release 1.0.0 (in development)
The prefix kwarg that most compiler check functions support now accepts an array in addition to a string. The elements of the array will be concatenated separated by a newline.
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Day 11: Santa CL::AWS - Raku Advent Calendar
Santa’s elves are in charge of updating the e-Christmas site every year and, since that site uses WordPress, it needs a full rebuild each time to make sure that it is ready for all the kids to Post their Christmas lists without drooping under the weight of traffic.
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Perl Weekly Challenge 194: Digital Clock and Frequency Equalizer