Hacking Linux
A couple of days ago I installed Ubuntu so I could work on this site on a *NIX environment. Aside from the pain and suffering of getting it running properly (who’da thunk you needed to edit a config file with sudo to configure the refresh rates of your monitor, which you have to get off Amazon, to get a proper display?) I also got some hacking done.
Hacking of the hardware kind, that is.
Because of the really curious audio properties of Linux I had to split the front speaker signal of my 5.1 sound card so it would also drive the rear speakers. And I plugged the out signal of the iPod dock to the input of the sound card, so I could play AAC files with proper browsing through artists and albums.
Sigh, but at least it works.
P.S. I wish uni would hurry up with my registration papers, so I can pick up a proper UNIX machine ;-)
