https://blog.vdouillet.fr/ Humble ramblings about IT and occasionally other topics en-us Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 UTC Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:55:35 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr//favicon.png https://blog.vdouillet.fr/ https://blog.vdouillet.fr/blog-updates.html The blog has not seen many new articles lately, but there is new stuff under the hood nonetheless! .. blog-updates.html Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr/adrenalin-25.5.1-rx-6700.html As of today, the Radeon RX 6700 is the latest card from the RX 6000 series released by AMD. As such, it is supported by driver version Adrenalin 22.6.1 and later. Unfortunately, this driver version is also the one AMD chose to deploy a big overhaul of their OpenGL and DirectX 11 driver. This overhaul brings great performance improvements in most applications relying on OpenGL or DirectX11, but sadly, it also breaks a few others. In case of issues, an easy workaround is to stick to Adrenalin 22.5.1 for the time being. That said, the RX 6700 is left in an odd place because this driver does not support the card. So are all RX 6700 owners screwed? Maybe not... adrenalin-25.5.1-rx-6700.html Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr/which-gpu-for-a-1999-pc.html The past few months, I've been having fun with an old PC from 1999. The machine is surprisingly capable as long as you cater to light programs and of course it won't browse the web. One of the things it's really good at though, is retro games from that era. One hardware component of particular interest in this regard is the GPU. The machine originally came with a Matrox G400 PCI graphics card. I quickly replaced it with a supposedly much more powerful GeForce2 MX that leverages the AGP port on the motherboard. After a while though, I began to wonder if this GPU is a good match for this machine. So I set out to run some benchmarks with a few GPUs I have on hand, to try to decide which one to use. This post will include 3DMark test results as well as discussions regarding 16bit vs 32bit color mode, driver overhead, and issues I encountered setting up the GPUs... which-gpu-for-a-1999-pc.html Mon, 16 May 2022 00:00:00 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr/remote-desktop-vnc-openbsd.html Here are a few quick instructions on how to setup a VNC server on OpenBSD. This can give you remote X11 access to your OpenBSD machine if you can run an SSH client and VNC client... remote-desktop-vnc-openbsd.html Fri, 08 Apr 2022 00:00:00 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr/advent-of-code-2021.html This year, or rather last year, I decided to participate in the Advent of code. This post will explain why and how I decided to do it, but also reflect on my progress since it's well over now... advent-of-code-2021.html Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr/lightweight-mail-client.html I'll give you a bit of context first. Lately I've become frustrated with Xubuntu on my laptop. Long story short, having to update every 6 month and the general direction the OS is taking bothered me (flatpack by default... wait what?). Add to that the fact that every update broke something, so in the end I just reinstalled from scratch every 6 month... lightweight-mail-client.html Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr/browsing-gems.html Lately, I've been browsing small articles that I decided to call "gems" for the purpose of this article's title. And in my opinion they are actually gems. It all stems from my recent discovery of Gemini, which is a new internet protocol... browsing-gems.html Mon, 11 Oct 2021 00:00:00 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr/raspberry-pi-white-noise-machine.html A white noise machine can help find sleep or mask ambient noise or even tinnitus. It can also be used to muffle conversation from potential eavesdroppers. I wanted to experiment with a white noise machine for sleep purposes so I decided to build one with a Raspberry Pi I had lying around... raspberry-pi-white-noise-machine.html Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 UTC https://blog.vdouillet.fr/openbsd-simple-git-server.html Nowadays solutions like Github or Gitlab are popular to host online git repositories. I think that these tools can be quite bloated with features that I likely won't need for my small projects. So I decided to setup a self-hosted simple git server on OpenBSD. Here is how I configured it... openbsd-simple-git-server.html Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:00:00 UTC