• was older
• was single
• lowered her expectations by at least 700% 800%.

Many of us have tried Winamp’s auto-tag feature. We’ve also seen Last.fm’s auto-correction of improperly tagged tracks. Combine the two and use a relatively unobtrusive Tag/Ignore button combo notification dialog box that pops up when a plugin or the audioscrobbler submits a track to Last.fm and the website feels the track is improperly tagged.

Testament confirmed for Rock In India Fest – Bangalore w/ Slayer on 10/30/10 [...] via web

That’s right: Testament and Slayer. Testament. And. Slayer. In Bangalore. This October. Suck it.

Linkage:

Testament’s Twitter
Slayer’s Twitter (?)
Headbangers.in

For those who tried the HOWTO at https://help.ubuntu.com/ and ended up with headphones and microphones that don’t work, here’s how you do it:

• sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
• Into that file, insert options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic. (Some forum posts will tell you to use dell-eq, but that left me with low volume on the laptop’s speakers and nothing happening on the microphone front. Using dell-m6 fixed my low volume problem, but the microphone was still dead. I read about dell-m6-dmic somewhere and guess what, bitches, it works.)
• Restart ALSA and pulseaudio if you know how (I used to know this, and I blame alcohol for my sieve-like memory) or just reboot.
• ????
• PROFIT

TL;DR: Put options snd-hda-intel model=dell-m6-dmic in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf to fix your shit.

This is, of course, serious business. In fact, I’m going to go ahead and put it up there with World No Rape Day or World No Genocide Day.

Those of you in the know will have, by now, realized that World No Rape Day and World No Genocide Day are completely made up. World No Tobacco Day is no different. It might – it just might – be less likely to happen.

Do these non-smoking, holier-than-thou dipshits think they are going to make any sort of difference with this completely useless venture? Given their ability to deal with facts, I believe they just might think that. Fuck them. Fuck them all. Fuck all sorts of morons because fucking just these morons is simply not fair.

World No Tobacco Day is a joke. I hope you moralfags die of AIDS.

- Ubuntu then tells you that restricted drivers are available for your shiny ATI graphics card. You install these drivers. Great.

- You reboot and the splash screen and your consoles look like dog shit. (No, not your terminal emulator. There is a difference.) Not so good.

- You try to ignore the crappy splash screen and consoles. It works… for a while. What really pisses you off is the two-second lag you encounter whenever you switch between desktops or maximize/minimize/restore windows. CRAP!

I shall now proceed to tell you how this shit can be fixed.

Fixing your shitty looking splash screen and consoles:

1. Make the above face.

2. Do it again, just to be sure.

3. Install the hwinfo and v86d packages . Do it now. Actual command given below, for noobs.

sudo apt-get install v86d hwinfo

4. Use hwinfo to figure shit out about what sort of available display modes. Do it.

sudo hwinfo --framebuffer

5. Pick through whatever hwinfo throws at you and select an appropriate resolution and color depth. Here’s what it threw at me:

destroy@llnoobs:~$ sudo hwinfo --framebuffer
[sudo] password for destroy:
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer
[Created at bios.464]
Unique ID: rdCR.QOJHFkjgnM2
Hardware Class: framebuffer
Model: "(C) 1988-2005, ATI Technologies Inc.  M92"
Vendor: "(C) 1988-2005, ATI Technologies Inc. "
Device: "M92"
SubVendor: "ATI ATOMBIOS"
SubDevice:
Revision: "01.00"
Memory Size: 16 MB
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd0ffffff (rw)
Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits
Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+832), 8 bits
... a bunch of similar crap ...
Mode 0x0323: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
Mode 0x0324: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits
Mode 0x0343: 1400x1050 (+1408), 8 bits
Mode 0x0345: 1400x1050 (+2816), 16 bits
Mode 0x0346: 1400x1050 (+5632), 24 bits
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Sadly, the framebuffer doesn’t want to make sweet love to my panel’s native resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. I chose 1400×1050/16 bits because I’m cool like that.

6. Use your favorite non-sucky text editor to edit /etc/default/grub. I used nano.

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Now, change the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line to look like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1400x1050-16,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap"

Next, change the GRUB_GFXMODE line to look like this:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1400x1050

Replace 1400×1050 and 16 with the resolution and color depth you chose.

7. Edit /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and add this line:

uvesafb mode_option=1400x1050-16 mtrr=3 scroll=ywrap

Again, change 1400×1050-16 to the resolution and color depth you chose.

8, Now, to make Linux love the framebuffer, type this:

echo FRAMEBUFFER=y | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash

9.  Pour yourself a drink and prepare to update everything you messed with:

sudo update-grub2
sudo update-initramfs -u

10. Reboot and jerk off to your awesome new splash screen and consoles.

Source: Tux’s idyllic life.

Getting rid of that annoying lag when doing shit with windows and desktops:

1. First things first. Add the following to your software sources:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:launchpad-weyland/xserver-nobackfill

2. Update your package database:

sudo apt-get update

3. Apply upgrades:

sudo apt-get upgrade

This should upgrade your xserver.

4. Restart xserver or reboot:

sudo service gdm restart

Note: This might be a coincidence, but I did notice an improvement in fullscreen Flash video playback after I did all of this.

Source: Friendly Tech Ninja.

Note, however, that these are valid only until December 31, 2009, and anyone trying to use them beyond that date is, well, a noob, just like the Nazi idiot above. (People who knew my previous blog will find the image strangely familiar. Also, that image is displayed only for the lulz and tshirts.in doesn’t sell nazi paraphernalia, so quit asking.)

Have fun, you cheap bastards.