I’ve been using Alljoyn recently, but only the sources are distributed, and it’s fairly difficult to compile programs against it. The recommended way to handle this seems to be to manually copy various files into your root filesystem, but I prefer not to do that for obvious reasons. Instead, I’m going to build Alljoyn packages, using fpm.
FreeTDS 0.91’s TDS 7.1 support is buggy
This is a short post to document an issue we ran into at work so it will show up in search results for people who have this problem in the future.
tl;dr:
- Use FreeTDS 1.0 if you can.
- If you’re stuck on FreeTDS 0.91 (and possibly other pre-1.0 versions), don’t use any TDS version above 7.0.
Common informative metadata in MPEG-DASH
This is part two in a series on MPEG-DASH. The previous post described the structure of an MPEG-DASH MPD. This post describes informative metadata, like labels, languages, and copyright information. I plan to write one more post in this series, about less visible data like asset identifiers.
Fixing blurry textures in Minecraft
Today I installed Minecraft on a new computer and the textures all looked terrible and blurry:
Since the fix wasn’t terribly obvious, I figured I’d document it here in the hopes that search engines pick it up.
Linker problems building Chromium on Fedora 20
I need to build Chromium on a machine that runs Fedora 20 today, and I had some trouble due to this error:
[12269/24399] LINK gles2_conform_support
FAILED: c++ -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--fatal-warnings -pthread -Wl,-z,noexecstack -fPIC -B/home/blong/workspace/chromium/src/third_party/binutils/Linux_x64 …