This only works for applications which use alsa.

1) Make sure your user is in the audio group.

2) Create a .asoundrc (or asound.conf in etc if you want)

pcm.!default ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal Users,

this place is all but dead these days, whilst I'm not a very active blogger, I do like to post stuff every once in awhile, either about my life, or about technical stuff.

What should I do?

P.S. I quit started quit smoking again ( Read more... )

Just a reminder than flu is endemic amongst birds, humans, pigs, and possibly other species. It's also interesting that the 1918 flu pandemic occured in 3 waves, each more deadly than the next, whilst it's not known if people infected in the first wave were immune to the second and third waves it is known that those infected by the second wave were ( Read more... )

It's my personal opinion that copyrights and/or patents do not have a place (at least in their current form) in a 21st century world, but I won't go into that ( Read more... )

It's basically a lie ( Read more... )

If I were to design a perfect botnet, I would use the following technologies.

• Listen on udp:53
  
  There are two options for the protocols you use, http or something which looks like dns, as these are the two most common protocols on the internet, and you want your traffic to look 'normal', fastflux hosting could also be run on this port, and you ( Read more... )

For awhile I've been wanting to put Linux on a USB stick, unfortunately all the guides I found on the internet assume you're using that other proprietary OS that we don't speak about.

No penguins were harmed during the making of this guide, there is no requirement to burn any CDROMs, all you need is a working Linux box with standard tools and an ( Read more... )

I'm alive, it is trying to snowing, nearly everything is good ( Read more... )

Want to know how to get multiple public static IP addresses via DHCP ( Read more... )

Everyone and his pet cat has an opinion about this, so I might as well wade in.

Let me say the vast majority of the western media seems to have deviated away from the facts by a long way. They still report the facts, but they seem to be spouting their own rather poorly informed views. Much as I hate wikipedia, any idiot can lookup South Ossetia or ( Read more... )