I was trying to get sound working on an EEE PC in Pidgin, and had to do a bit of googling before I found it… here’s the solution (taken from the EEEuser forums)
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- Press Ctrl+P to go to Preferences
- Then select Sounds tab
- In the sound method section, select “Command”
- Type “aplay -q %s” (without the quotes) as the command.
Ok, it’s a blight on the neighbourhood, it’s a massive power use for shinyness and pride, not to mention nothing to do with the real “spirit of christmas” and then someone came up with the idea of driving around to see the bloody things!
I drive pizzas to your house. Please understand if you’re doing about 10km/h on the major feeder roads around your area, driving like a complete idiot and stopping every ten meters, it’s going to take longer for someone to get their pizza. Tomorrow night it might be you!
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A photo that a good friend of mine took while in a museum in Turkey earlier this year 🙂
[Read More]Do you have an inclination for BDSM?
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(((Note: This quiz is not totally comprehensive because of the length such a quiz would be. I kept it sex-based because I felt that psychological profiles and motivations were too complicated and vary too greatly among people that practice BDSM.)))You know what you want but it has nothing to do with your own role in the bedroom. You have the ability to be flexible in that area which can be useful for exploring you sexuality with your partner.
[Read More]Opportunistic, patriotic to a fault, and not so fond of people who aren’t just like you, you are like a Nazi General. Back in Germany in the 1940’s, you would have been at the top of the asshole list. Not for Nazism, necessarily, but for your own sick, twisted values. Then, out of superior intelligence (relative to other Nazis, that is), you would’ve climbed to the top.
[Read More]I’d beat their asses down. (And the rest of them too)Â 30
[Read More]Originally from The Register and stolen from here.
… Thousands of emails were sent to Spanish Internet users `thanking’ them for buying £350 worth of equipment from a fictional computer company. Their credit card would be debited the amount in two days, the email continued, but if they wished to query the purchase they need only call a free phone number, provided. When the hordes of panicking Spaniards called what was in fact a high-toll number charging £1 a minute, they were greeted with a recorded message telling them to wait until a representative was available.Of course, no one ever picked up the phone and the clock kept ticking for as long as the caller could stand…
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Gold wrapping paper, a ruler and green foil tape, that’s the implements I used to wrap this present. It’s over-engineered and under-trimmed. I’m so obviously the only straight guy in my office. and one of the four males out of thirty people.
Secret santa my ass.
[Read More]This isn’t the most interesting of posts, but a good “note to self” for future reference. If not disabled, SSHD will try to do a slow reverse lookup of the IP address of the client causing for an unnecessary delay during authentication. I often run into trouble with this when creating a new install of Linux or FreeBSD.
To disable it, in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config add the line below:
UseDNS no