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Fedora 10 / Toshiba Laptop: Working headphone jack!

March 10th, 2009 Chris Brown Posted in Fedora, Linux, Multimedia, Technology, Toshiba Laptop, alsa No Comments »

The headphone jack on my laptop wasn’t working in fedora 10 so I did a little bit of reading today and found this solution:

add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf

options snd-hda-intel model=6stack-digout

by the way, the soundcard is an intel HDA

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Linux Tutorials How to use Screen on Linux by rackAID

October 2nd, 2007 Chris Brown Posted in Linux No Comments »

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Beryl is out of This World – Window Management Taken to the Next Level

July 14th, 2007 Chris Brown Posted in Linux, Technology No Comments »

I had no idea how cool an interface could be. I was going to install AfterStep but I kept seeing people talk about Beryl. So what do I do? TRY IT.

Beryl has features such as hotkeys and and desktop switching that go much further than anything else I’ve used. On top of that, the window and desktop switching looks amazing… Desktops on a 3D cube and a killer alt-tab; AWESOME.

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Quanta Plus Web Development Environment

July 11th, 2007 Chris Brown Posted in Linux, Technology, Web Development, Work, php No Comments »

I’m testing out Quanta Plus which seems to be the best of the best web dev softwares for linux. So far it’s perfect. The preview window leaves much to be desired… I’d love to see invisible elements in it etc etc. Quanta seems to be like dreamweaver with a really nice code view but a not so hot design view.

I’ve been working on an OSCommerce customization for one of our clients and today I’ve done all of the php work in Quanta without ever wishing I was using something else. So far so good.

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