Can’t remember when this happened to me but after some upgrade in the past my gnome-volume-control-applet just stop appearing in my notification area.  From what I understand this is due to the full integration of Pulse Audio in the last linux builds, but either way it was a pain in the arse as this little
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So I was having a problem with my external USB hard drive lately.  The USB connectors on this LG laptop are a bit shady so things get disconnected if you bump them and this would happen with my hard drive.. The problem being that if the Hard drive was disconnected like this and not properlyy
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So after having the edge of my hand touch my touchpad and mess up an email for the upteenth time today I went around and did some research to see if there was a quick shortcut key or something I could press to turn the bloody thing off and then on again when I was
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So after running into this problem suddently and for no ‘apparent’ reason(although it became apparent later) I noticed the complete lack of real support docs online in regards to the ALSA underrun problem.  Hopefully I can rememdy this a little bit and help some people out. Last week I noticed skype audio was getting really
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When I finally solve the problem I nearly broke down.  The effect that hearing crystal clear music for the first time in months, especially the likes of Bear Mcreary, is an emotional experience.  For a LONG time I have been plagued with this extremely subtle but in Ubuntu where my music would have this very
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Meritus Stumbled upon this as I was going through the available games in Ubuntu today.  Anyways this is a wickedly fun little dungeon crawler gam with some great game mechanics that make it challenging, strategic and fun.  Definitely recommend everyone go check it out.  I believe the game world is procedurally generated as there are
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Alright so you have a USB mic and Ubuntu is being a bitch about it.  Meaning it probably is thinking that your primary input device is in your soudn card somewhere as apposed to a USB port.. How on earth do we tell get Ubuntu to use the USB port instead of the Soundcard?  We’ll
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html Found this great article getting inside of the head of them man who is responsibile for the Linux Distro I, and the majority of linux users, use: Ubuntu.   Mark Shuttleworth is indeed what I would strive towards, a ultra rich man that decides to do something that can change the world.  Albeit it isn’t
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Well with the recent upgrade to 8.10 Intepid has come a few wonderful bugs.. The main one is that all of Nvidia’s new drivers for 8.10 are only alphas and dont’ work worth a damn.. Just spend 2.5 hours going over and pulling my hair out until I found found this article on UbuntuGeek that
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Bah, of course I forget that I am getting a new Kernel today with the 8.10 Intrepid upgrade.. I imagine Linux upgrading will probably be taking up a good hour of my day.. So push everything else back! Even so it is still like Xmas, new kernels mean new toys more stability and a better
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