The biggest take away here is my time is limited. I wasn’t being creative, I was working, all the time. This comes at a price.
Author: Carmelo Santana
Daily progress
It’s only been a few days and I’ve begun to feel some pressure on meeting the demands of this challenge. I knew it would be difficult but I have a problem with my overall purpose or vision for this challenge. I framed the challenge as a desire to “create something daily”. However I’m allowing all…
ssh -i asks for password
Check user permissions: User home DIR should be limited to 744 ~/.ssh = 700 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/36540/why-am-i-still-getting-a-password-prompt-with-ssh-with-public-key-authentication
Inspired by BEEPLE
BEEPLE’s commitment has inspired me to produce something daily.
Fractional Scaling settings don’t apply
Here’s a fix for fractional scaling doesn’t work with proprietary Nvidia drivers. Any setting will result in 200% increase. Tested on Ubuntu 20.04.
Game Maker Studio
Started working on my first game, Average Bob Space Adventure. Currently following tutorials by Friendlycosmonaut and they’ve been incredibly helpful. Luckily Game Maker Language has a similar syntax to PHP so it’s been pretty easy to pick up. If you want to follow Bob’s progress check the GitHub repository.
MySQL/MariaDB woes
Recently had some issues with a fresh MariaDB install. After installation I was unable to create a new user. After testing a few things I realized I also had issues changing the root password. I eventually was hit with the error message: ERROR 1372 (HY000): Password hash should be a 41-digit hexadecimal number After numerous…
Open source journalism
We recently started a discussion on stream on what open source journalism might look like for as us developers. We also discussed some implications and use cases for both readers and journalists. Here’s a quick breakdown of our initial chat on 2/6/2020. I plan on editing this post as we continue to grow this idea…
Playing Quake 3 on OS-X
I was surprised to see how easy it was to get Quake 3 up and running under OS-X 10.10.5. With these simple steps you’ll be up and running in no time. I think I see a dedicated server in my near future. Download a pre compiled ioquake3.org/get-it (Windows, Linux, Solaris also available) Version 1.36 for OS-X Mount ioquake3.dmg Move ioquake3 folder to your /Applications…
MediaTemple DDOS
Posted during the storm, you guys rock! Good luck guys!