Zune (or iTunes) on Linux – the definitive guide

A lot of people come to me moaning about their inability to cross the pearly Gates (or Windows.. ’tis all the same) into Linux heaven because they will miss the enchanting tones of their Zune or iTunes. And just for the record, the Zune 30GB is a player with better sound quality than the iPod [...]

ATI IXP AD1981B (Thinkpad R51e) sound on Jaunty

This was tough.. so here’s a quick list: Your sound preferences should look like this: Your alsamixer should look like this Install the following sudo apt-get install asoundconf-gtk gstreamer0.10-alsa libasound2-plugins libesd-alsa0 sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer sudo apt-get install bum Your boot-up-manager should look like this (notice the unchecked PulseAudio) die.. pulse.. die!! Reboot and enjoy

S40: How Yahoo can take over the mobile world

Very easy – the strategy is to take a huge ignored segment and hijack them with an offering to knock them off their feet. Huh? One of the interesting news released today is Nokia prepping an App Store with almost 20K apps. The problem with this story is that it is going to be restricted [...]

A clean install of Ruby 1.9.1 + Ruby-on-Rails 2.3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04

I think the best way to go about this is to build everything from source. There are a few caveats of course, but I hope to clear them up. Prerequisites: sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libreadline5-dev mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev mysql-client libssl-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev Download the sources for ruby, rubygems, mysql-ruby OPTIONAL: Add this patch to ruby for [...]

Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 and Sansa players – howto get them working together

It seems Jaunty has a bug working with Sansa players – the Fuze, the E-series etc. It works intermittently in RhythmBox with MTP mode and doesnt work at all in the (more compatible) MSC mode. The problem is with some of the other probes that are conflicting with this device – I think Ubuntu thinks [...]

Global chip sales reverse trend

The Semiconductor Industry Association issued a press release that the sales for semiconductors in March rose to 14.7 billion USD from 14.2 billion USD, the month before. One of the possible reasons it comments is that, chip buyers have used up their inventories. Well if that is true, it bodes well for the IT industry [...]