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Fedora 10 / Toshiba Laptop: Working headphone jack!

March 10th, 2009 Chris Brown

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

Posted in Fedora, Linux, Multimedia, Technology, Toshiba Laptop, alsa |


Rubik’s Cube Updates

February 22nd, 2009 Chris Brown

Hey speedcubers. I’m getting pretty fast at the 4 look LL algs that I’ve been learning this month. My completion times are beginning to drop below what I was averaging before I altered my method.

Also, even though I haven’t taken any averages I can tell that my cross and f2l times are going lower… I’m getting down close to 30 seconds for cross + first two layers of the rubik’s cube. That’s not fast enough… Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Cube, Fido's Revenge, Mind Power, Rubik's Cube |


Cube Averages (2-19-2009)

February 19th, 2009 Chris Brown

After adjusting my 3×3 Rubik’s Cube method I’m starting to get below 1 minute again. I’ve switched my last layer method to a 4 look LL that can be taken all the way to a 2 look Fridrich LL. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Cube, Fido's Revenge, Mind Power, Rubik's Cube |


Still Cubing… Averages and What I’m up to

February 12th, 2009 Chris Brown

I picked my cube up again a few weeks ago… I have been completing it a couple of times a month since I started but I haven’t cubed to build skill in years… I think I stopped around 2003… You’ll have to dig through the old blog entries to find out for sure. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Fido's Revenge, Mind Power, Rubik's Cube |