Most HIDs (Human Interface Devices) are supported in Linux without the need for
a custom driver. However, some devices don’t necessarily implement the USB HID
specification correctly, and the support for gamepad controls is rather lacking.
Of particular interest to me, and a few others in the Linux gaming community, is
support for the Saitek X52/X52 Pro HOTAS joystick. For the most part, this
joystick works very well in Linux, but with one limitation. The little thumb
stick on the throttle module that controls the mouse motion. Linux only reports
the X-axis for that thumbstick, and I traced it to the fact that Linux maps only
one axis in the game controls usage page. For this to work as intended, we
really need to build a customized driver.
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Being in lockdown, I have had the chance to experiment more with my food. This
is my latest creation in a vegetable foccacia-style bread, which is good enough
for a weekend dinner.
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I recently enabled IPv6 on my home router and decided it was a good time to try
and connect to my server using IPv6, rather than IPv4. However, on my Macbook,
running High Sierra (the highest version supported), the SSH client would
default to using IPv4 to connect.
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Go has a nice way of importing packages, just use go get
and it automatically appears in your $GOPATH/src directory. The backing store
can be any supported VCS, but most often is GitHub. This means that your custom
package will be namespaced under github.com/<user>/package. Wouldn’t it be
nice if you could just namespace it similar to rsc.io/quote?
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One feature of Bootstrap that I like is the
tabbable content
,
which allows the user to create tabs of local content. One common use-case is to
show multiple syntax highlighted code blocks that showcase the same problem, and
how to achieve it in different languages.
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