Low recording volume in Skype and Ubuntu Hardy

I got a brand-spanking-new 1tb external drive (Western Digital MyBook) for archival, and I decided it would be a good time to redo my partitioning scheme on my current Linux Mint machine. I have two drives in that box, a 160gb (sdb) and 320gb (sda). For some reason, I had sliced and diced them partition-wise: [...]

Remember The Milk has all the features required to be a great web-based task manager for Getting Things Done (GTD) but its sheer flexibility means it can be daunting to build a well-oiled GTD machine. In this post I’ll show you how to use RTM Lists, Tags, Smart Lists, and Locations to create a full-blown [...]

After I upgraded to Intrepid, I was very annoyed to find that sound no longer worked on my system. Turned out that PulseAudio (which I once was a fan of) was the culprit. PulseAudio was taking exclusive control of the sound device, effectively not allowing anything else to play sound. Which was bad in many [...]