Some time ago I found out about Book Sneeze, a service by Thomas Nelson offering free books in exchange for reviewing them on your blog (the reviews aren’t required to be positive). I decided to give it a try, and a couple days after signing up my account got approved. The website shows a changing selection of [...]

I’ve finally got around to doing my homework from FOSDEM and since I’m sure before long I’ll have forgotten again how all this works, let me write it down here. 1. Installing CAFF (CA – Fire and Forget) Easy. sudo aptitude install signing-party 2. Configuring CAFF For this we open up ~/.caffrc and write in [...]

So now that Zeitgeist 0.2.0 is out I’ve thought I’d write down some examples of how to use it’s API to get information from it. Please keep in mind that this is a development version and the API isn’t guaranteed to be stable (and I can tell you now, many of them will change). If [...]

I’ve recently installed Ubuntu Jaunty on an HP Pavilion dv6-1110ss and everything I tried worked fine except for one thing: there was no sound. After searching for a while and trying out some stuff, the solution is easy. Just open file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add the following lines: options snd-pcsp index=-2 alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel alias sound-slot-0 [...]

Ja fa bastant temps que tinc el meu portàtil i que vaig prometre escriure un apunt sobre aquest, així que m’hi poso d’una vegada… Pels qui no hagueu seguit la conversa a la llista, el Nadal passat vaig comprar el meu primer portàtil, un Ahtec Sense XHL90. La configuració per la qual em vaig decidir [...]