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Kent

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Building Boost 1.58 with Visual Studio 2015

If you try to build Boost 1.58 with Visual Studio 2015, you’ll get this error “Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results” when building, do this.

Testing C++ concepts with GCC 6.0 beta.

This is a very terse list of steps to be done to be able to start testing concepts with G++.

Migrating to Visual C++ 2015 from VS2013

At my day time job I decided we should try out Visual Studio 2015 (from Visual Studio 2013).

couriertls: accept: error:14094417:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert illegal parameter

Just found this error in my system log on my Gentoo system.

Apache SIGABRT on Gentoo

I’ve been trying to set up a PressBooks test site on my Gentoo dec box. I may or may not write a book about programming, but PressBooks is a WordPress plugin for writing and exporting books. I was curious and decided to give it a go.

How to setup VPN for mobile devices with PPTP Linux server

This is a quick and dirty guide to set up a PPTP VPN (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) service on linux server, in which your high end mobile device can connect to.

How to stop a std::async task

Sadly, this is only an intrusive way of stopping std::async. For an almost non-intrusive way of stopping a thread, look at boost::thread.

A simple, modern IRC client library in C++. Part #1, the parser

I’ve started with a side project, making a “smart” chatterbot, which should be able to respond to given commands from other users on IRC (Internet Relay Chat).