After a bit of googling about, it seems that I'm affected by Ubuntu Bug #111375, which itself seems to be kernel bug #8423. According to kernel.org's bugzilla, this has been fixed, but a new Ubuntu kernel hasn't been compiled yet ( Read more... )

While sputnik runs well enough on a 32-bit 'generic' kernel, I am tempted to try an AMD64 kernel to see if I can get CPUfreq to work properly. It's not that big a deal for me, since I haven't put anything on this host anyway.

I’ve fscking had it with rockbox.

For reasons that totally escape me, I am utterly unable to play oggs I’ve encoded since maybe November of last year in successive versions of rockbox. Not all ogg vorbis files are affected; some play. Most do not. When they don’t, the iRiver barfs...in recent Rockbox builds, it shows “No file!” errors. ( ( Read more... )

Rhythmbox just wiped all my playlists. All of them. I’m not too fussed--but there was at least one that I was keeping intact for sentimental reasons which was hosed.

Dammit.

I have a CD with the playlist on it, so that’s fine. But still... I don’t even know why/how this happened. Damn you Edgy. Damn.