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Re: Blog update: getting it working

Katie — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:32:56 -0000

http://kottke.org/10/09/think-...

Re: I’d much rather eat iVomit

Guess — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:41:45 -0000

Your girlfriend is a complete sasauge

Re: I’d much rather eat iVomit

Katie — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 08:41:52 -0000

that was a serious iRant! haha i like the disclaimer at the end xxx

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

nk8215 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:54:31 -0000

Problem solved, but it's a bit tricky...
I had to force-unload all ALSA drivers (sudo /sbin/alsa force-unload), load them back driver by driver (modprobe ), and, finally, reload them per ALSA again (sudo /sbin/alsa force-reload). Then I had started kplayer and...Yay, it works again without a single jerk :P

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

nk8215 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:05:33 -0000

Oh no, I'm suffering under *quite the same* problem. The difference is, all sounds go perfectly smoothly right after rebooting. But once the sounds start to jerk and, in addition, Firefox (not any other app, just only FF) stops responding, I have to kill it per xkill or repeated clicking at the closing button. This behavior occurs very randomly, once after 10 mins, once after 4 hrs, once does it not occur at all.
I had also visited numerous forums and read numerous related posts, but a solution was and is in nowhere :(
My configuration:
Asus A6R-B002H (remember that "Oh no" at the beginning? I could not so simply open the box and try to fix any cdrom cable, since the thing is a laptop...), 512MB RAM, Intel Celeron M380 1,6GHz, dualboot Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala & M$ Win XP Pro SP2, soundcard ATI IXP SB400 AC97.

Sorry for my, eh, queer English (see the TLD of my e-mail address) :]

Re: Windows and Ubuntu Linux aesthetics and fonts

Jack — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:03:20 -0000

And you'd be correct - I inverted the samples to do just that! :-P

Re: Windows and Ubuntu Linux aesthetics and fonts

Joeb454 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:20:21 -0000

Unless you've been sneaky to try and catch me out - I prefer the fonts on the right

Re: Ubuntu Studio as my new main OS

Jack — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:01:55 -0000

Oh it isn't as bad as I'm making out. I've had a play and I use Arial and similar at a smaller size. I can live with it :-)

The rasterisation, aliasing and especially the kerning of fonts is nowhere near the standard that Microsoft ships. On Macs the kerning is faultless but the aliasing is similarly blurry. They get around it in an arty way so it looks good. I've noticed it on PDFs a lot too. I guess Microsoft has the upper hand with the billions of dollars of research.

It's not Ubuntu's fault, I'm such a spoilt brat and I like to have a paddy when something isn't perfect :-P

Re: Ubuntu Studio as my new main OS

Joeb454 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:58:20 -0000

Thanks for the tagging ;)

As for the font's - personally I think you should just have a play on some of them. I don't find them to be an issue at all - hell I've even written magazine articles and reviewed books in my Ubuntu system. They can't be that bad!

As for looks, I'll try to remember to take a screenshot of my install for you, and see what you think. If you haven't got it by Sunday, ping me and let me know ;)

Your good mate - Joe Barker :-P

Re: New Windows 7 install

Joeb454 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:37:00 -0000

I have but 1 thing to say for this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Re: New Windows 7 install

Jack — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:53:00 -0000

That would be cool, but it isn't real and Linux sucks big time when it comes to leisure. I'm not wasting years of my life troubleshooting that shit.

Re: Snow way to park

Dave Field — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:18:00 -0000

D'you know, I was just going to sit down and write a post about how the roads seem to be full of complete numpties how don't know how to handle a bit of frost ('cos dude, this still *so* isn't proper snow), when me and my little weighs-nothing, rear-wheel-drive, no-such-thing-as-low-revszero-traction-mobile have been just *fine*... but I think I'll just link to this instead ;-) Glad you're all safe and no harm done, look on the bright side, you'll be dining out on this for many winters to come...