I installed Ollama on Windows to run local language models on an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, measure GPU and RAM usage, and connect an existing Binance MCP server. Here are the actual commands, results, and problems from the experiment.
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How I Expanded the C: Drive on Windows 10
My Windows 10 C: drive was almost completely full. Its capacity was only about 31.45 GB, while Disk Management showed another 18 GB of unallocated space on the same disk. Expanding C: looked straightforward, but a small recovery partition stood in the way. Then disabling Windows Recovery Environment failed because the drive was too full.
(more…)How to Set Up a Graphical Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 and Connect from Windows via RDP
This guide explains how to add a graphical desktop to an Ubuntu 24.04 VPS and access it using Windows Remote Desktop. The setup uses XFCE, xrdp, and a regular Linux user. RDP connections travel through an SSH tunnel, with xrdp listening only on localhost.
An example when we don’t need std::shared_ptr in C++
In the previous example, independent components needed shared ownership of cached objects. For a TCP session, however, we can compare two designs: multiple callbacks keeping the session alive through std::shared_ptr, or a single owning coroutine using std::unique_ptr and structured concurrency. In the second design, reading and writing still run concurrently, but the owner waits for both operations to stop before destroying the session. No shared ownership or reference counting is needed.
