Noodlings 19 | BIOS Games Serving the NDI™ Plugin

Another prime number… and no the title doesn’t make sense. It’s just a nonsensical way to string everything together.

19th Noodling on a mid-August night

19 Episodes… 19 is another prime number!

Fun facts about chocolate milk can be found here

BIOS Update Dell Latitude E6440 on Linux

My BIOS was 4 years out of date. I thought it was time to update it. I went to the Dell Support page and noticed that they only had *.exe files available. I sighed and was initially frustrated because my initial supposition was that I was going to have to have a working copy of Windows to do the update. 

AntiMicro | Map Keyboard and Mouse Controls to Gamepad on openSUSE

Installed a game called Pokemon Insurgence on Lutris and there was no way to play the game with a gamepad. Rather than try to fight things, set out for an application that would map the keyboard controls to the WiiU Pro Controller that has become my gamepad of choice.

CPU Downgrade

After receiving this message following a BIOS upgrade, I was forced to purchase a lower powered CPU for my AMD Workstation.

OBS NDI™ Plugin on openSUSE

The NDI plugin offers a fairly easy way to send OBS video signal (presumably other applications can take advantage of this too) to another OBS instance on another machine. This can come in handy for numerous reasons such as splitting up workloads between machines by capturing output from one machine, such as gaming computer, to stream with a dedicated unit that interfaces with YouTube.

BDLL Followup

What have you done that would cause you to lose your Linux card

openSUSE Corner

New Prototype Builds Bringing Leap, SLE Closer Will be Available Soon

The release manager for openSUSE Leap, Lubos Kocman, has updated openSUSE’s develop community on efforts to bring the codes of Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise closer together.

Tumbleweed Roundup

• 20200805 Stable 99
  • MozillaThunderbird (68.10.0 -> 68.11.0)
    • Several CVEs addressed
  • transactional-update (2.22 -> 2.23)
    • Subpackages: transactional-update-zypp-config
    • Version 2.23
    • Add “run” command to be able to execute a single command in a new snapshot
    • Add “–drop-if-no-change” option to discard snapshots if no changes were performed (BETA, required for Salt integration)
    • Removed previous CaaSP Salt support (gh#openSUSE/transactional-update#33)
    • Avoid “file not found” message on systems without /var subvol

• 20200806 Stable 99
  • mariadb
  • systemd
  • virt-manager
  • xen (4.13.1_04 -> 4.14.0_02)

• 20200807 pending Stable 99
  • urlscan (0.9.4 -> 0.9.5)

• 20200810 Score of a moderate 84
  • epiphany (3.36.3 -> 3.36.4)
  • gcc10 (10.2.1+git465 -> 10.2.1+git501)
  • gnome-mines (3.36.0 -> 3.36.1)
  • kernel-source (5.7.11 -> 5.8.0)
  • squid
  • zypper-lifecycle-plugin (0.6.1490613702.a925823 -> 0.6.1596796104.87bdab7)

https://review.tumbleweed.boombatower.com/

Computer History Retrospective

Computer Chronicles – Fifth Generation Computers (1984)

The pioneers in the field talk about 5th generation computers capable of Artificial Intelligence and heuristic learning; giving computers context. In 1984, computers were already being used to make knowledge based decisions.

Final Thoughts

Take some time to have fun. Good, clean wholesome fun. Go for a walk, enjoy the weather on any day that it is possible. Take some time to cherish each moment, whether it is good or bad, find the positive in the situation and make it a point to say “thank you” as often as possible.

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