Since I have apparently been too lazy to write anything here in over a month, here are quick updates:
- Dead main computer. I’m sitting at an old Pentium II making the best of it until I can get out to get a decent new computer. It’s running Debian Testing — not sure if I want to change that since it’s up and running pretty well, but…
- When I was messing around with my dead computer trying to see if it was just a software issue, I threw Debian on there to see if it was just my Gentoo install that had problems. Shockingly, I found that it had no kernel module for my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card, which has always been well-supported with the kernel ALSA modules using snd-cs46xx, even having hardware mixing. Well, apparently Debian, being strictly pro-free software to a fault, wasn’t quite sure that all of the source for that module was strictly free, so they took it out. Made me a bit angry, but what can you do?
- cmus is just an awesome commandline-based music player, with playlists and directory-based music playing. It’s light and quite powerful, and while when I’m lazy I still like amarok, cmus is awesome for light systems.
