Just before the site re-launch around midnight.
Salary negotiations later that night.
Archive for November, 2007
Management and I were in Borders yesterday to pick up a book on Nagios when I quite literally stumbled into the Sony Reader display. I stood enraptured with the device for several minutes flipping through pages, marveling at its non-existent weight, drooling over how thin it is as well as the sturdy aluminum enclosure. Priced at $299 it is quite within reach and given how much wear and tear I gave my eBookman I could see this as a solid replacement for much of the paper I tote around with me. Also, with the libprs500 project looking so mature it eliminates many of the worries I might have had about easily re-formating and loading content.
Add it to my short list of gadgets I’m lusting for this holiday/birthday season.
In my personal life I am incredibly lazy and often don’t et around to things unless need is so pressing that it should have been done yesterday. Case and point being recording support on my BigLap and the continuing mockery that I suffer for it not working and the fact that I lost my Bluetooth headset thus rendering Skype useless to me. So after some quick research I found the solution on the Ubuntu forms thanks to dejitarob.
james@elwoodicious:~$ sudo alsactl names
james@elwoodicious:~$ sudo alsactl store
james@elwoodicious:~$ alsamixer
The catch here was that the input sources needed to be pointed at Front Mic and Mic.
james@elwoodicious:~$ sudo alsactl store
That’s it. Skype works, Sound Recording works, Ekiga…Doesn’t. Not sure why Ekiga doesn’t but that’s a puzzle for another day. Well, it does after a reboot. Go figure.
