Back in 2017, I bought a gaming machine with a Saphire AMD RX 480 graphic card. As far as I can tell, while running Linux, the machine has always been crashing regularly (I would say once a day or so). Symptoms were a few graphics glitches, spreading all over the …
A little tutorial for people willing to install Wine32 on a 64 bits Debian based Linux distribution.
As root type the following commands:
# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt update
# apt install wine32
When installing a 64 bits Debian based distribution on a 64 bits …
I've been using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor my physical and virtual machines for several months, and I recently started monitoring my router running OpenWrt as well.. I think these are great tools to "see" what's happening on my infrastructure. These are my "eyes" regarding my machines and my network …
Once a while, I feel the need to analyze my expenses to understand my own costs structure (and maybe identify overspend). My bank portal does a rude expenses categorization per account over 3 months, while I prefer having a global view over an arbitrary long period of time, like 1 …
I deployed a Ceph cluster (Nautilus, then upgraded to the Octopus release) to store my personal data a few months ago. So far it has been working pretty well, apart from a 1 hour partial outage that won't be covered there, most probably linked to the issue described.
That said …
This is the story of me attempting to convert an old machine into a Cryptocurrency miner. I basically tried to plug my AMD Radeon RX 480 graphic card into an old PC, a Core 2 duo with 4GB RAM and a GF7050T-M5 motherboard.
According to the GF7050T-M5 manual, its PCI …
This post summarizes the results of my AMD GPU benchmark code to benchmark the computing power of an AMD Radeon RX 480 GPU against an Intel Core i5-7400 CPU.
The benchmarking code I am running on is the following code:
__kernel void kerntest(__global char* data, int loops_cnt) {
size_t id …