I’ve finally figured out the cryptic alsamixer to configure ALSA properly for use with my SoundBlaster Live 5.1 and my 5.1 speaker setup. I think a recent update has made this work properly because I’ve intermittently played with alsamixer over the years I’ve been using Linux, and I’ve never been able to get it to work properly. Though, today I can finally announce that it does. The following configuration, when pasted into your /etc/asound.state file (remember to backup your existing one first!) will hopefully “just work” — no further configuration necessary. It’s advisable to use your physical volume knob to adjust the overall volume level as I would not recommend playing with the software volume levels.

File’s here: asound.conf

I’ve employed Shutter to make putting images on my site that little bit nicer. It’s a nifty little Javascript plugin that will, upon click, display an automatically resized version of the thumbnail image. It integrates well with Wordpress’ existing image upload function, which allows you to upload an image, automatically creating a thumbnail for you to insert into your post. All I need to do is add an extra line to the `a` tag and Shutter does the rest.

You can see it in action on a few previous posts. I’ll be posting all of my images like this from now on.

If anyone wants to buy me one of these super awesome OLED display watches, that’d be real neat.

image stolen from http://store.dieseltimeframes.com/