I recently bumped my primary email/database/webserver box up to date. Now all my gentoo boxes are past the annoyingly useless tweaks required for gentoo’s baselayout2. I love gentoo land, where every bit of pain is a lesson. This one included… (continued…)
Somewhere the AVG toolbar got installed on my laptop Windows install, perhaps without my permission when I installed PowerISO. You can remove it in Program Files, but afterwards it had still e.g. clobbered my home page. In case you need manual cleanup: (continued…)
Realtek audio is used in almost every cheap-assed mobo these days, and they HIDE THE DEVICE that lets you capture sound! Wow, this is apparently done to PREVENT COPYRIGHT ABUSE, when will the world get a grip? Anyway, here’s what you do:
- Right-click the tray sound icon, and select Recording Devices…
- SUPER TOP SECRET TIP rofl… Right-click on list of devices, and select both Show Disabled and Disconnected Devices
- Enable and set Stereo Mix as the default
- Fire up Audacity and get some sampling done! It will help you grab LAME to export to MP3, so you can record cool stuff like this.
Realtek TOP SECRET CLASSIFIED DRIVER ACCESS rofl
I moved my writeup on using git from the Windows command prompt (along with my msysgit rantings) to the wiki.
GPT is a newer Intel-provided partition format replacement for the ancient MBR style, that only allows 4 primary partitions and, most importantly, can’t be used to boot off of drives 3TB or larger (yes you will be using one soon!). So I thought I would prepare for the future and get all set up. What a waste of time… (continued…)
