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Creative Sound Blaster XFI USB and Ubuntu

leon — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:02:41 +0000

As of kernel in Ubuntu 11.10 (I wanna say late 2011 updates) (this is ALSA 1.0.24), XFI USB (and Titanium HD support) is there.

However, for whatever reason, it’s disabled by default as a preference/rule in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf, and doesn’t show up in listed devices nor does it play.

Go in that conf file, right near the bottom or find this:
“# Keep snd-usb-audio from beeing loaded as first soundcard
options snd-usb-audio index=-2″

… and change the -2 to 1 (being an index for device). This allowed both my on-board Intel audio (index 0) and USB xfi (index 1) to show up at the same time.

creating a tar ball with exclusions

leon — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:48:23 +0000

The example: taring up “proto/” directory, but excluding all the hidden “.svn/” subversion metadata directories.

# tar -czvf proto.tgz –exclude=.svn proto/

powder day

leon — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:13:32 +0000

Finally got my camera out while snowboarding, been slacking this year.
Another epic, epic day at Vail:

niece julia

leon — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:05:43 +0000

We recently took a short trip to Alamosa visiting with K8′s brother and family. Spent some good time with niece Julia, happy baby. I like this photo progression…

tantrum and a wreck

leon — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:44:01 +0000

I believe this is the only proof of me landing a tantrum this year, and then followed by a good wreck! Thanks wifey for the fine video job.

interesting stats on tweets

leon — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:03:13 +0000

“Toronto-based social media analytics company Sysomos scanned 1.2 billion messages that were sent in August and September 2009 to try and get some idea of the kind of conversations that are going on. They discovered that more than seven in every 10 tweets sink without any kind of reaction from the world.”

Link to article on WIRED.