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GoogewwVideo and EwwwTube

Well, this morning while messing with a massive set of concert series speakers, I hooked them up to the computer and decided to mess around with Google Video and YouTube and take a look at some drum solos. Crazy, insane, flat out stupid, are just some of the words the neighbors told me after deafening the neighborhood ;)

Anyways, one thing I noted was that the audio was not synchronizing with the video at all with Firefox. I could tell if this was my computer or my eyeballs shaking with the insane amounts of SPLs my eyeballs were receiving. Well a quick search of the forums, and wallah, it’s fixed and working quite well. If you are experiencing this same issue, give this a try: (Make sure you have the Universe Repositories enabled)

sudo apt-get install alsa-oss

After that was installed, I issued the following command:

sudo sh -c "echo FIREFOX_DSP=aoss >> /etc/environment"

And everything works peachy. Now, because this worked for me, doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for you. My setup consists of the AC’97 sound system on board my Abit AT7 Max motherboard. I would recommend you check out the rest of the forum post, and see if there is anything else in there that will help you out. There are other tweaks the person who created that post displays, however, I only did the one shown above, and it worked for me. If this is going to mess something up, let me know before I kill my setup ;)

NOTE: If this breaks your computer, I am not at fault, and either is the person who wrote the howto in the forums. I highly doubt any damage will occur, but if it does, don’t try and sue me, I am a student with no money! And if you have a massive set of speakers, Check out that 12 year old kid, or the Slipknot drum solo, and crank it up. Also note the guy with the buckets is very fast and Derek Roddy is super fast. Derek actually caused massive popping as the voice coils couldn’t respond quick enough at about 203843080243db ;)

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Halloween Winter Wonderland

winter wonderlandOctober 12, 2006
Originally uploaded by nixternal.

Well, it really isn’t a winter wonderland, but I did wake up to a pretty decent snow storm. However brief it was, it was quite heavy and a lot. It was enough to eventually create a dusting. Oh I can’t wait for more snow! Just over two weeks until Halloween and it is snowing. Quite rare ever since aerosol cans ruled the world. We are used to seeing a first snow closer to Christmas if anything. The news says more is on its way! It was 75°F on Sunday, and snowing on Thursday.

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We Want You

uncle sam and edubuntu

Edubuntu Wants You

Have you been using Edubuntu? Are you a coder? Can you read and write in English? Do you enjoy taking long walks on the beach?

Well, if you at least answered Yes to using Edubuntu and being able to read and write in English, then do we have a job for you. If you picked the coder part, there is a lot waiting for you if you are interested. And the long walks on the beach, take a cold shower!

Currently, the Edubuntu team is hard at work producing the Edubuntu Handbook. This will be the documentation of all documentation, outlining and covering every possible aspect of the Edubuntu operating system. How can you help? Easy, take a look at the Task List. If there is something there you think you can help out with, then head on over to the Ubuntu Documentation Projects Repository wiki page to learn the basics of SVN and grab a copy of the current repo. The XML files for the Edubuntu handbook is located in the following directory:

trunk/edubuntu/handbook/C/

I know, you are probably guessing, “what the heck is XML or Docbook?” No need to worry, as long as you can type it up in an email, OpenOffice.org, or in a text editor, that will be fine.

If you are interested, and would like to know more about the project, head on over to the #edubuntu IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Ask around in there, as I am sure someone can point you in the right direction to get you started in contributing back to the community.

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