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No sound with Gnome 3 and pulseaudio?

Dear Lazyweb, I recently switched from KDE to Gnome 3 and I am so far very happy with the decision. One thing that bothers me since then is that the sound does not work when restarting the computer or waking … Continue reading

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Speech Recognition Software

Dear Lazyweb, Having broke my elbow last week, I’m experiencing serious trouble typing with only one hand on the computer. I know that there is speech to text software, but I was never really interested in that — until now … Continue reading

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KDE4′s annoying taskbar

Dear Lazyweb, since KDE4 is in unstable, the taskbar behaves very annoyingly when working with two monitors with different resolutions. I have a laptop. When I’m at work, I put it into a docking station which is connected to a … Continue reading

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Dear Lazyweb

After todays or yesterdays daily package update (Sid) several kernel modules, namely thinkpad_acpi, snd-hda-intel and probably others are not loaded automatically anymore. So my Thinkpad T500 had no support for audio and several power management functions anymore. Once I found … Continue reading

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Canon IXUS 130

Dear Lazyweb, Today I bought me a Canon IXUS 130 and was quite disappointed to see that it couldn’t properly connect to my Debian/Sid machine via USB. Apparenty the camera is not recognized as a USB Mass Storage Device but … Continue reading

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linen and towels

Dear lazyweb or someone who is already in NY, do I have to bring my own bed linen and towels or are they provided by Furnald? I couldn’t find the information on the website. I guess I have to bring … Continue reading

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Running Gnome Applets in KDE

Dear Lazyweb, does anyone know how to run gnome applets in KDE? I’m talking about byzanz which is a software to record your desktop in an animated gif, ogg or Flash format. It provides a command line and a gnome … Continue reading

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How to find packages installed/updated yesterday?

Dear Lazyweb, since yesterday’s daily update, my laptop runs really sluggish. Is there a way to list all packages which where updated or installed yesterday to track down the problem?

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My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!

Dear Lazyweb, do you know how to theme Tk apps? In the default setting, Tk apps running on my KDE4 desktop, cause spontanous eye cancer: there must be a way to theme them to look like the Qt or at … Continue reading

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Gridengine and Qlogin Zombies

Dear Lazyweb, we’re using gridengine 6.2 on our cluster system at work. On this system we have a queue for interactive jobs. The queue has a fixed number of slots. If someone wants to start an interactive session and no … Continue reading

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