It had been months since I had an weired issue with the embedded audio controller of my Gigabyte motherboard. Plugin the headphones on the front panel of my box didn’t mute the output to the speakers, which nullified the purpose of having headphones. I long thought that it was some hardware issue that I would [...]
We all know that passwords sucks, that they are the nightmare of all administrators and security guys. So many hacks have been eased because the victims reused the same password everywhere : email account, forum, bank, critical systems… Sadly, so far, there is even not the beginning of a replacement solution. Passwords will be there [...]
That is exactly why I have never used – and will never use – Facebook or anything like that.
I bought a 500 GB 2.5″ external disk drive to backup the data of my laptop. It is small, quiet, easy to move and far enough for the important data I want to backup, mostly documents, e-mails or script from work. Being lazy, it happened that I did not backup my data. Yes, it is [...]
It allows to play a music file by letting the cursor over it, without opening a player. Very easy to set up : and it should work immediatly.
For the sake, a nice post which I hope will contribute to stop the FUD against Mono.
Nice post that also solved my microphone issue with openSUSE 11.1 and Pulseaudio. Now every thing works well with Skype.
I found this benchmark, comparing the performance of Ubuntu, Windows Vista and 7 worth reading. Our Linux kernel does a great job !
