Linux

trick hulu.com into believing you're connecting from within the U.S. by using defined tor-exit-nodes via privoxy.

when I installed Vista to play with DirectX 10 it wiped the MBR of my linux disk, that is Grub. fixing it was as simple as booting from a pendrive and updating Grub. but then Vista wouldn't show up in the Grub menu and not even boot directly from the disk its installed on.

how to meet all the requirements to and actually install Flex Builder on Linux.

I'm mainly posting this message so eventually somebody with the same problem can google this for a fix.

recently my nvidia-drivers started to behave strangly and kept freezing my X session frequently, sometimes without a chance to recover gracefully.

this is a small guide/reminder how to get all your gnome system sounds, gstreamer and even the firefox flash plugin output to jackd via pulseaudio.

ever wondered why you couldn't save files in gedit that you opened via FTP?

Yesterday I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Studio 8.04
-> http://ubuntustudio.org

the default settings for jackd didn't work too well with my onboard sounddevice but I got it working after some tweaking.
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)