Thursday, 24th November 2011
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Posted by root at 10:03 in Linux
One problem with my ever growing collection of movies and tv is the volume wars between formats. Add in music video downloads from iTunes and Amazon and the variabations become extreme. With a little creative searching I found an addon that can be added to the ALSA sounds system on my Ubuntu installation to this work on-the-fly 
Many users out there will be using KDE or Gnome for their day-to-day Linux usage, so want have any problems shutting down their PC. How-ever I recently set-up and terminal-only machine as a kinda adhoc NAS device and found there is no easy way of to shutdown or restart the computer with out using the sudo command and entering your password to become root. So this is how I got around the problem, by removing the need for the sudo password. 
Having lived in a Windows environment for the past couple of years I've gotten somewhat used to my routines and short cuts, most of which are missing or changed now that I'm 95% Ubuntu. The most notable absentee are all the extra buttons on my Logitech MX Revolution mouse, which I have mapped to a vast array or custom key stroked. So, lest I forget, this is how I have got these custom buttons working correctly. 
While trying to install Ubuntu on an old hard drive I started encountering problems using the Ubiquity installer. I was able to complete the installation using the alternative CD with dmraid (SATA or Fake RAID) disabled. After tracing the problem to the old drive having once been used in a BIOS RAID Array I next had to search for a means to removing the RAID information from the drive meta-data with out losing or destroying any data. 
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