• The output for LFE and center actually should output LFE and center on separate channels, but it outputs them mono, in the center channel… This makes it impossible to connect to an external amplifier and have it apply the proper 10 dB boost on the LFE signal.
• The LFE and Center channel distort at maximum gain (or minimum attenuation: 0 dB), which is easily heard by sine testing. I had to reduce all channels by 3.2 dB to avoid distortion.
• The center and LFE channels are 6 dB quiter than the other channels when they’re all the same in the mixer. With a test tone, all channels measured 0.78V, while LFE or center measured 0.39V. That is, LFE measured 0, center measured 0.39V with both center and LFE signal.
• The LFE/center output has a significantly louder noise floor than the other channels.

Really, what monkey designs this?

The world being distracted by the Boston bombing, the bill passed the U.S. house of representatives on April the 18th. It’s not signed into law yet, however.

Stop CISPA now.

To fix that, you need to add “-r” to the options in /etc/default/saslauthd (in Debian based distro’s):

OPTIONS="-r -c -m /var/run/saslauthd"

At the time of installation, last week, the printer wasn’t supported by the version of hplip that’s shipped with Mint Linux 13 (Maya), so I had to download a newer version. This probably won’t be an issue with the next reinstall, which hopefully won’t be soon; gladly, release 13 is an LTS.

Luckily it can be disabled, by setting browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false in about:config.

This annoying feature is right up there with the removal of the RSS icon from the address bar.

The Logitech HD Webcam C270 is a cheap webcam that is simply a USB video device, so it works in all OS’s without special drivers.

• http://www.okaphone.com/artikel.asp?id=475234
• Farnell code: 9448780

It has a metal frame that fits my cross-over front panel, and the metal frame is shiny silver. And, the screw holes aren’t grounded.

options snd slots=,snd_usb_audio

This forces the usb sound module to take second place.

An example of a payformystay.com offer where I'd want to replace the 'Check it out!' link text.

I thought I could use something as simple as:

<a href="/offer/34234-title">
  <span class="unvisited-label">Check it out!</span>
  <span class="visited-label">Check it out again!</span>
</a>

together with…

a:link span.visited-label,
a:visited span.unvisited-label {
  display: none;
}
 
a:link span.unvisited-label,
a:visited span.visited-label {
  display: inline;
}

Or, even simpler:

a:visited {
  content: 'Check it out again!';
}

However, I bumped into a glass wall while trying to get this to work. Apparently, browser manufacturers have been removing features to increase security. The problem, apparently, is that as a third party you could find out if somebody has been visiting a particular URL by linking to, styling :visited links and then querying the computed styles of the link. To avoid this, getComputedStyle() in the major browsers now lies and most style rules are ignored within rules applied to the :visited pseudo-class.

I’m still considering a work-around with JavaScript (setting a visited class) on the anchors, because I hate to let a good darling die.