by call | Nov 6, 2011 | audio, loop, karaoke, input line, Linux, microphone, PulseAudio, tech support, troubleshooting
Walking with the desire to do karaoke, I found that there is no option to hear my own microphone, neither in Gnome nor in KDE. But the command line could not fail; just load the PulseAudio loop module:pactl load-module module-loopbackY para...
by call | May 20, 2011 | hack, humor, JavaScript, Linux, virtual machine
Para que no se lo vendan más caro que el Güindos en otros lados (como Lenovo y Dell), aquí lo tiene listo para correr, máquina virtual en Yavascrip y todo incluido, excepto el Uniti, pero trae qemacs que es mejor. Que no le digan, que no le cuenten que no es...
by call | May 4, 2011 | upgrade, error, installation, Linux, Natty, Ubuntu
Mi instalación actual ha sobrevivido tres actualizaciones desde Karmic, y como las otras, esta no estuvo exenta de problemas, aunque ambos fueron causados por tener paquetes no oficiales, y solucionarlos fue simple. El mensaje de “La instalación no se ha podido...
by call | Jun 18, 2010 | database, error, Linux, music, player, Rhythmbox, troubleshooting, Ubuntu, XDG
Updated Rhythmbox from Lucid to Maverick’s version, to see if it would improve cold startup times. It didn’t, but it did break sync with my iTouch, besides rescanning all my collection. So I downgraded back to Lucid, only to find Rhythmbox had...
by call | May 7, 2010 | error, Installation, Linux, troubleshooting, Ubuntu, update
While overall smooth, a couple of details had to be fixed after upgrading Ubuntu Karmic to Lucid:Grub didn’t automatically select the previous OS I started, as before:Had to add “GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true” to /etc/default/grub (and run update-grub...
by call | May 1, 2010 | data loss, dual boot, hibernation, Linux, recovery, Windows
Booting Windows over an hibernated Linux is not a good idea. I just lost 20 GiB of data in a shared NTFS partition…I hibernated Ubuntu Lucid one day, and the next I fired up my computer. Some update messed up the saved option in Grub, so instead of booting...
