Listen to the microphone or line-in on PulseAudio

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...

Problemas actualizando Ubuntu Maverick a Natty

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 deLa instalación no se ha podido...

Brace expansion doesn't work in a Bash script

Yes if you invoke Bash como “sh”, will behave as much as possible like the original sh, disabling, among other things, the expansion of keys (braces). That's why for saving me two keystrokes in the shebang (#!/bin/sh), I ended up giving many more until...

Error printing in KDE (IPP client-error-bad-request)

Ubuntu 10.10, WHERE 4.6. Prints fail silently, but the record of Cups (/var/log/cups/error_log) contains an error:Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Print-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/Canon_MX310_series) from localhosty más arriba:Syntax...