For a while after upgrading my work system to Fedora 12, my sound wasn’t working. After ridiculous amounts of searching through extensive instructions on how to fix it, I stumbled on a solution today. For my system, ALSA sound worked just fine (found this out by trying the ALSA output plugin in audacious).
In / etc / pulse / default.pa, I changed the line from
# load-module module-alsa-sink
to
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,0
Then, killed and restarted pulseaudio as such:
$ pkill pulseaudio
$ pulseaudio -D
When I heard the pop in my headphones I knew something went right and soon had sound in both Google Chrome (YouTube) and in Audacious. Sweet!
Ctrl + Shift + T : reopens the last closed tab. Good stuff; I love hotkeys, especially when I accidentally discover a useful one. 
Running Fedora 11, I forgot I installed Google Gadgets, so while I’m waiting for PEAR to install, I figured I’d register my disappointment here.
All of them look relatively decent, but unfortunately the 4 or so I’ve tried (out of hundreds, I know), aren’t SVG. So that means when I make them bigger to show off, they distort. :-/
I had this post all written up and lost it all by absent mindedly upgrading Wordpress at the same time. Which, on a side note, I’m very happy with. The automatic update seems to work pretty well now, along with updating the plugins I have installed. The process was flawless.
So anyway, this is supposed to be about travelling. Yesterday around 16:30 I barely made it to DTW for my flight. I left with plenty of time to spare, but managed to get caught in a torrential downpour; the kind that so heavily hits your windshield you can’t see more than ten feet of traffic in front of you. I guess that was going to be the least of my worries.
I managed to get on the flight, even though to automatic check in was complaining about me not being there 30 minutes prior. “You may be in luck”, said the US Air check-in employee, “they haven’t closed the flight yet”. Luck isn’t really what I would call it, in retrospect.
After a 40 minute delay in the flight time, we sat on the flight line for an hour without A/C while they refuelled the plan and got the A/C working. Forty-five minutes into our patient wait they started pulling off passengers that were headed to the west coast, because they wouldn’t make their flights. US Air claimed this was because there were no other flights for those people to their final destinations, but that worried me, too.
Long story short, I missed the connecting flight and ended up stuck in Charlotte by myself for much longer than I expected. It seems everyone else will get to San Diego before I will…
They rebooked me on a flight that left at 07:20; that is just disgustingly early after having ingested as much scotch as I did at McKoy’s the night before. McKoy’s is a pretty cool little bar within walking distance from the Sheraton hotel US Air was nice enough to let me sleep in. There is definitely some interesting local “color” there, and plenty to drink scotch-wise. Johnny Walker Black, Green, and Gold were available, and after some joking I convinced Angelo, our New Jersey-born bartender to pour my drinks extra heavy. There was definitely no shortage of alcohol in my drinks from then on.
Oddly enough, I ended up talking geek stuff in the form of Qt and Linux programming with another guy that was also stranded in the area. It was definitely an amusing experience; I even bought a McKoy’s t-shirt. lol
That shirt is now inside out as I sit with a four piece chicken snack from “BoJangles”. Yes, I’m eating chicken from a place that shares a name with an SNL skit featuring Will Ferrell and a dog. It’s not too bad, considering I only paid forty cents for it after my five dollar meal voucher from US Air.
Anyway, this post has gotten way too long; if you have my Facebook check the videos on there later; should be amusing. 
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It’s not technique — it’s what you have to say.
I got the mumps. They threw me in a crib so I wouldn’t roll out onto the floor. And there’s a big bay window in my house, and that window stayed perfectly still until that train started to chug. At a certain speed, I could reach up and feel the pane, and that glass pane would vibrate. I said, Doggone, there’s got to be a reason for this. So I go to the kindergarten teacher, and she takes me to the science teacher, and the science teacher takes me to the library and reads it off to me — “This is called resonance.” That was the beginning.
The audience, they’re not professionals. They just love music. It isn’t necessary to play over their heads to be admired.
You can’t go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.
I got out of the car and there was a knife in my neck. The guy says, “Don’t move.” And the drummer got out of the car, and he got a gun in his head. This was my entrance to the South Side of Chicago. But it was necessary, because I wanted to play jazz.
When rock came in, people didn’t know what to do. Even Sinatra, he didn’t know what to do. The music was changing. And it’s changing now.
Last time I saw Count Basie, he was in a wheelchair. They wheeled him up onto the stage, he sits down at the piano, and he gives the downbeat, and that band played like they were in heaven. And right in the middle, the band cuts. He had to take one hand and put the other on it, and he comes down with one note. And it was the greatest note I ever heard in my life.
I gave up the guitar in 1965. Didn’t want to see a guitar. I’d go out and get drunk. When I came out of the heart surgery, the doc said, “Promise me you’ll work hard.” I said, “I thought working hard is what got me here.” He said, “No, working is what will keep you alive.”
There are times when you want to go where you used to go and you can’t go there. So I’m back to Count Basie lifting his hand. And I find you can stop that show with one note just like you can with a hundred.
I better go play now.
Interviewed by John H. Richardson, September 1, 2008
Ha. Chose to not put the mother-effer part in the title; my mother reads this! lol.
It was nice to see Krav Maga get some media exposure recently, having Rhonda Walker visit the studio and do a story on how Krav can help with self defense and physical fitness. I should have went …
crle -l /var/ld/ld.config.
This screws up the entire linker and nothing will run anymore, bombing out with the following errors:
# crle
ld.so.1: s9_brand.so.1: fatal: /var/ld/ld.config/libc.so.1: Not a directory
Quick fix:
# echo ” > /var/ld/ld.config
# crle -u
# crle
Configuration file [version 4]: /var/ld/ld.config
Default Library Path (ELF): /usr/lib (system default)
Trusted Directories (ELF): /usr/lib/secure (system default)
Took a lot of googling, and at least I understand how the run time linker works in better depth now.
sudo yum -y install beep
while(true); do RAND=`od -An -N1 -i /dev/random`; sudo beep -f${RAND}; done &
