I came across a very interesting guide to Linux soundsystems, it's an interesting read and fairly up to date.. http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html

I had a lot of trouble find a really basic example (hey the stuff I want to do is not that hard) for using the boost::asio library. This library is supposed to be the bee's knees and will be includ...

Who needs chrt when you can set things yourself from C code? Example: #include <stdio.h> #include <sched.h> #include <unistd.h> void setscheduler(void) { struct sched_param...

Things used to be complicated with regard to setting realtime permissions on Linux (realtime-lsm and /etc/security/limits.conf). Not any more it seems! Using chrt If your user is in the 'audio' g...

So I wrote a number of test programs. Each program uses a 'before' and 'after' timestamp retrieved by gettimeofday(). Regular usleep Let's start with plain usleep(). The results: Plain usleep(10...

So you're building a C program that uses a 3rd party library which requires you to call a certain function every 10ms (10000 us)... Seems simple right? Just do this: usleep(10000); This is supp...

This is a quick guide on how to install Debian on a Dell Latitude e6400 with integrated Intel GM45 graphics. Most things can be solved by downloading a new kernel :) Download netinstall Debian ...

Hi, welcome to my blog! I'm planning to put some technical stuff here in the future. Nerd-o-rama!