I saw one of these Guitar Intefaces from Behringer on a mates desk, plugged it into my Ubuntu 11.0 laptop to see what dmesg says..

[157653.128060] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[157654.871883] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[157655.120313] input: Burr-Brown from TI               USB Audio CODEC  as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb4/4-1/4-1:1.3/input/input9
[157655.120542] generic-usb 0003:08BB:2902.0001: input,hidraw0: 

I had a bash at the Android SDK with Eclipse, seems pretty decent, even had a working emulator, in an hour I managed to

- Get a working development environment
- Learn about basic HTTP connections
- Test the application in the emulator
- Upload my app to my nexus one android (2.2 cyanogenmod)

My first app just (without much error checking) displays the contents from the CHANGELOG.txt of this site, but atleast I know how to get some data from the net and display it.

Probably not the best idea, but handy to quickly turn everything on.

Pulseaudio sucks, it has the same issues as all the other sound daemons like esd, artsd etc.

From their site..There may be problems with getting sound from Adobe Flash v. 9 and earlier, Wine and Skype when these applications use the ALSA protocol.

Heres my Linux wideband monitor program for the Australian made WBo2 wideband sensor driver, specifically tested with the 2J1 unit. this program requires the wxPython interface modules..

# apt-get install python-wxgtk2.6

The program only prints out the wideband readings in a fairly primitive but usefull fasion, better than nothing!

Heres some tips on how i got my Nokia n93i to allow me to borrow it's GPRS internet connection via Three Australia.

Using my debian/lenny linux laptop on 2.6.24

1. Setup your rfcomm bluetooth interface

This is my /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf file (also attached)
Replace your device mac address with which ever is the device address of your mobile phone..

# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx       dgtlmoon

So in your rfcomm.conf put this..

rfcomm0 {

heres my gnucash account recipe

Initial setup

- Set up your bank account as "Assets:BendigoBank passport account" or whatever your income lands into, set your opening balance as of the financial year

- set up a "Assets:AR" as type Accounts/R

- Setup any Expense sub-accounts, these need to be defined prior to importing the QIF as theres a bug in the QIF importer.

Importing your QIF

For savings/bank account type

I've been involved with Linux since around the 2.0.2x series kernels in around November 1996. Admittedly I was of pure hacker-mentality had no real idea of what it would take to run a business that depended on the desktop to perform it's duties, such as printing, saving, loading/retrieving, web-browsing, network file system connectivity. I was just happy to be able todo interesting stuff with my TCP stack and write my own software without having to fork-out big dollars for the experience.

Looks like the mysql system tables were missing on my fresh install of Debian Lenny on my Acer Aspire 5520 laptop.

just run mysql_install_db , after this you'll need to get your mysql debian credentials back in line, these are usually stored under /etc/mysql/ (this is so mysqladmin etc will work again)


/usr/bin/mysql_install_db
WARNING: The host 'nine' could not be looked up with resolveip.
This probably means that your libc libraries are not 100 % compatible
with this binary MySQL version. The MySQL daemon, mysqld, should work

Got myself a shiny new Nokia N93i, although i was originally looking for the N91, apparently the N91's are hard to find and a new phone was required!

This machine, although bulky, and people wonder why i want a mirror (one side of it is very shiny) is cool, it has excellent WiFi capabilities - it will scan for local wifi and give you a list of what it can get onto, and then use the network you choose (3g, wifi etc) todo anything internet related.