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Getting the SteamID of current user using Steam_API

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This is the code I used when integrating ManaGuardian with Steam.
I could not find any other posts regarding this so I am publishing my code for reference. I hope it helps

Steam API header files from valve SDK are required

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013/tree/master/sp/src/public/steam

//Initialize Steam API

InitResult irResult = g_oSteamAPI.Initialize(g_szAppPath);

if (irResult != IR_SUCCESS)
    return EXIT_FAILURE;

//Open Steam User Interface
ISteamUser* pSteamUser = g_oSteamAPI.GetSteamUserInterface();

if (!pSteamUser)
    return EXIT_FAILURE;

CSteamID sSteamID = pSteamUser->GetSteamID();
uint64 uSteamID = sSteamID.ConvertToUint64();
char cSteamID[64];
sprintf(cSteamID, "%lld", (long long)uSteamID);
printf("User SteamID : %s\n", cSteamID);

The code is pretty much self-explanatory.

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Interesting domain spam

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Yesterday I registered my new domain manatails.com.

But I was quite surprised to see this spam mail in my mailbox today claiming that I needed to pay a fee for registering my domain to internet search engines. Are they really checking each new domain registration just to spam everyone registering a new domain?

Oh dear,

spam

 

 

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Regarding battery wear on laptops

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After having used the laptop for 4 months. I opened up the battery info to check how much of life the battery has lost.

The results were much better than what I expected :

battery

Before calibration it showed 0.3% wear rate.

battery2

After calibration battery wear was completely gone.

The calibration is done by fully discharging and charging the battery 2 consecutive times.

I kept the charger plugged all the time whenever I put my laptop on my desk and I took my laptop very often in weekends. People say that using the charger after full charge can severely cut the battery life, but from these results, at least I won’t worry about it again.

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GeForce vs Quadro SPECviewperf 11.0 benchmark

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Computer specs

GeForce box:

i7-3970x, Geforce GTX690, 32GB RAM

Quadro laptop:

i7-820QM, Quadro FX880M, 8GB RAM

SPECviewperf_11

As can be seen in the graph, even a 3-year old mobile Quadro card can easily beat a high-end desktop Geforce card in pretty much every benchmark, except for CEI Ensight which I believe does not rely heavily on double-precision floating point computations.

It was quite surprising contemplating on the fact that Geforce box had all the superior parts and still couldn’t even compete with old Quadro.

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W230SS no headphone sound fix.

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Everything happy with my new laptop, but it had a problem that was quite irritating.

I could not get the headphones to work after my laptop wakes up from sleep mode.

I just figured out why, it was that the sound card of W230SS had a different way of handling sound traffic. It had a proprietary method of switching between channels and the default windows driver wasn’t handing them correctly.

I found that Clevo Control Center app was capable of handling them. Do this and you will get working headphones.

1. Download and install Clevo Control Center

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2. Select the profile of your choice, and click on Gaming tab

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3. Switch the headphone mode to Direct mode

4. Voila, your headphones will be working like a charm like before