Posted in 29 July 2007 ¬ 10:37h.John
I’ve found that using the ALSA sound system in Ubuntu is pretty slick, but becomes a pain when the sound tool in Ubuntu doesn’t correctly switch devices using the graphical user interface.
In a nutshell, here are a few useful commands to list and select the sound devices that are on your computer:
asoundconf list
list available sound [...]
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Posted in 27 July 2007 ¬ 22:07h.John
Being a sucker for all kinds of eye-candy, I’ve been running the latest builds of Compiz-Fusion. I’ve got to say that it is fantastic and makes the desktop experience a much more pleasurable one.
One of the things that has caused an issue is that the Application Switcher plugin (ALT+TAB) keeps on switching to every second [...]
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Posted in 23 July 2007 ¬ 10:23h.John
Well, according to CyberWyre, BloggingIT is worth about $34,000!
Not bad for a blog that nobody reads!
It’s also got some interesting reads about using referrals to try and make your website profitable. I suppose that it may be worth considering something like that in the future for here.
After a few more links I might be able [...]
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Posted in 18 July 2007 ¬ 13:41h.John
I’ve been using Office 2007 quite happily for some time now. But the niggles are starting to hit me.
One of the main issues is the new .docx format not being supported across the board yet. And with me being a sucker for all things new, I have to make a point of saving an alternate [...]
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