13 December 2016

New AMD Zen CPU looks great

New AMD Ryzen CPU
http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/new-horizon

Many cores, great sounded performance, quite exciting for desktop performance users.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/12/amd-zen-performance-details-release-date/


03 March 2016

Chrome 49 64-bit update issues on with Ubuntu 14.04

Google Chrome browser is going 64-bit only.

I am running 64-bit Ubuntu, but I guess in the past I've installed some 32-bit support for certain packages that require it.

When I try to apt-get update I get the following errors trying to update Google Chrome:

W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release 
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages'
 in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored,
 or old ones used instead.

This is an issue that was affecting me since the release of Chrome 49.

One solution that I found online was to tweak the sources.list file thus:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/FoE6sL-p6oU

deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

in the sources.list file.

It appeared to work:

Get:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main google-chrome-stable amd64 49.0.2623.75-1 [48.8 MB]
...
Unpacking google-chrome-stable (49.0.2623.75-1) over (48.0.2564.116-1) ...

But after installing successfully, the source.list file has revert to the previous version. So now apt-get update fails again.

It'll have to be fixed by the Chrome dev team.

13 October 2015

Valgrind running on Solaris

The latest Valgrind 3.11.0 (Valgrind news) has many new changes and bug fixes. One of the interesting new additions is Solaris/x86 support.

Detailed here;

Valgrind: Easy and powerful detection of memory and threading problems

Valgrind is an extremely useful and powerful debugger tool for native code developers on Linux. You really do miss the extremely detailed analysis and help it offers when developing on systems with no Valgrind support. It's fun to see the platform support expand.

Valgrind: downloads


16 July 2015

Suse Throws Enterprise Linux Weight Behind 64-bit ARM Servers

ARM might be gaining some traction in the enterprise? 64-bit ARM look to make more progress

Suse Throws Enterprise Linux Weight Behind 64-bit ARM Servers