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NFS shares over local network with autofs

Posted on July 9, 2013 by jacobbrett

Wanting to share files over my home network to other devices, I settled on the NFS protocol. Specifically, I decided to use the program autofs as it automatically mounts shares of local files on-demand (thus reducing system overhead when the … Continue reading →

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GIGABYTE Q1580P stereo microphones in Ubuntu 9.10

Posted on March 13, 2010 by jacobbrett

My GIGABYTE Q1580P-VA laptop has stereo microphones — one on either side of the in-built webcam. While probably useful, Ubuntu doesn’t seem to play nice with them by default. Fortunately, there’s a simple solution to get them recording audio input. … Continue reading →

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foobar2000 in Wine

Posted on January 14, 2010 by jacobbrett

Have you recently moved from Windows to Linux, but would like to keep foobar2000 as your ultimate audio player? So did I. It took a few hurdles with technical problems, but in the end I have foobar2000 running almost perfectly … Continue reading →

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