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How to configure the sound system on Linux
kano replied to MirceaKitsune's topic in TDM Tech Support
It really is stunning how today's software engineers can't even make low-latency audio come out of 3+ GHZ multi-core computers with gigabytes of RAM. This is especially so, when we played Quake on machines at ~100 MHz without this problem. This is not the fault of TDM, its PulseAudio. My solution to this is to uninstall it wherever and whenever I find it. I use vanilla ALSA and it just works 99.99 % of the time. It can do software mixing, and record audio... I do not understand why PulseAudio is still suffering from these problems. It isn't the job of everybody who ever wrote an audio playing app to modify it to be compliant with PulseAudio, especially when PA claims to be a drop-in alternative to ALSA. -
How to screw yourself over on a Linux machine: 1. deactivate logins as root, to set it back the way it shipped. 2. Forget to add yourself as a sudo'er first! 3. Profit, or (more likely) install a backup.
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You don't need to re-install. Just boot off a Live image and edit your sudoers from there.
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As a general rule, I like NVidia products. Today though, I needed to work around an artificial limitation where they block you from assigning a graphics card to a VM. In honor of that, I share this. Hey, it could be worse. I would be really pissed if I got one of those over-priced Intel chips where virtualization stuff is artificially hobbled to make you pay for an EVEN MORE expensive model.
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I got PCI-e pass-through to work in a VM. This means gaming in a VM at native speed. It means I can run Linux and Windows on the machine together and they each get a dedicated video card.
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I'm using Qemu on Linux to host. It uses the KVM (kernel virtual machine), to map the hardware. In addition to the graphics card, I mapped through a USB hub and optical drive. You can literally plug two keyboards/mice and monitors into it and host a tournament on one machine.
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I use a hardware KVM switch to switch sides. A single button press toggles between Windows and Linux on one keyboard/mouse/monitor. The machine is 6-core with 16 GB of RAM, so I split it in two. (3 cores/8 GB for each side). The machine MUST support VT-D/AMD-V and an IOMMU for it to work.
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For anybody that tries this, it seemed like the Windows side was occasionally dying. I would switch to it and it would just be black. The issue is that Windows suspends after a wile by default and I guess QEMU/KVM do not support this because it can't wake. Just turn suspend off in the guest to fix it.
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What would you do about a piece of human trash that floors the gas and burns rubber at 2 AM on occasion, waking you up in the middle of the night?
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Well, hopefully if they're dumb enough to do this, they're dumb enough to not check on said tires and the problem eventually solves itself.
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Eh, when I lived in NYC, the morning delivery trucks come in around 4 with their screeching loud air breaks every morning. It's just part of living there. So things could be worse.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7AgD3q5ljk 4:52, The lesson for today, boys and girls is: It pays to look where you're going! (and at the beginning of the video, why the hell did the biker do that?) Its like he wanted to drive through the building, but he didn't type noclip first. @11:15, this would be a great intro for a game or something... the way he comes flying right at you in slow motion.
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The trouble is that the Pi ships with just 1 GB of RAM. That's really not enough for TDM. 2 GB seems to be the bare minimum for it to run.
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What cracks me up is how Microsoft used to run a campaign about not getting "Scroogled" by Google. MS even offered mugs that said "keep calm while we steal your data", referencing Google. Now look what Microsoft is doing. I came up with a saying myself: "I'de rather get Scroogled than Microshafted, because being Scroogled is a lot cheaper." They also used to run ads bashing the Chromebooks, instead of ads demonstrating why Windows 8.x was so great.
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Come to Linux land. I'm typing this to you running on a 16 GB flash drive, where the actual OS takes up less than a quarter of that. The entire system is compressed with BTRFS, which increases speed and of course makes the installation smaller. You can boot the computer from this drive and up pops the desktop with accelerated NVIDIA drivers, audio editors, office software, graphics editing software, CD writing software, diagnostic software, DosBox, Wine, torrent software, and I can go on and on and on. Let's see Windows 10 do this. It will even run on lots of different hardware without so much as a complaint during boot. There's no product keys, no activation malware and no need to wait for it to slowly discover hardware when it boots on a different box. Basically, "resistance is futile". microshaft is becoming the new Google, except you still need to pay for the priveledge of being spied on. Just look how there's an advertising ID built into modern Windows (WTF?). Then there's the way that (if you tell it to STFU and stop contacting MS), it still does so anyway. Then there are the forced updates that can "fix" any workarounds people come up with to stop the snooping. It will basically be a cat and mouse game between those that value privacy (or those that run unlicensed copies) and MS.
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Got a cheap but insanely high spec Android from Amazon... It started throwing pop-up ads at me, so I rooted it, installed Adaway and set up a firewall with "default deny" policy. Kano does not tolerate pop-up ads. Still, thanks for the great hardware!
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are you talking about a tablet?
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Its a Lenovo K3 Note. Its got a 5.5 inch 1080p screen, 2 GB of RAM, an 8-core 1.7 GHz CPU, 16 GB internal flash with SD slot, a big 3000 MAh battery, and you can change the battery too. There are two SIM slots. It was just 160 bucks unlocked.
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Go onto the XDA forum, as some one will have figured out how to root it. Then you can install 'app master' and remove all the amazon bloatware - http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/ufficial-thread-lenovo-k3-note-t3102997
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Trying to rap my head around this... Its kind of like being in school again. So one computer is connected to the router and the other to the modem? Does one computer get an IP address like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x, while the other gets something radically different and publicly routable? As far as I understand it, they're still not on the same network because one is behind the NAT provided by the router and one is not. Check to see what IPs both machines get. If you can't plug the other one into the router too, can you use Wifi? Windows and most ISPs will protect you now from accidentally sharing file and print services with the whole world.
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Today's funny engrish word of the day: "unsetupping"; as in "After unsetupping software from a computer, data about the program is still in the registry."
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Why is a video like this age-restricted? God forbid youngsters see what can happen if they mistreat one of these batteries, the way some of them did by "bend testing" Apple products. "OMG, science is offensive!" EDIT: Wow, that's really scary. Also interesting is that you are allowed to watch the video here, but not on Youtube. I wonder though, can this eruption happen later?; Imagine if the battery was dropped or bent slightly by accident or something, is there a risk that this would happen later when its in the pocket?
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This is the kind of shit that makes me want to just quit using computers. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-when-told-not-to-windows-10-just-cant-stop-talking-to-microsoft/
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The security of Linux has nothing to do with it being "obscure". The security comes from the open source nature and the fact that if a program misbehaves people can remove it, modify it, or even switch to a different distro.
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@Chakk, your missing the point. It has nothing to do with your average user being IT illiterate, but more to do with M$ attempting to harvest private data without consent.
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computers use you!
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This is the kind of shit that makes me want to stop computing. There's 0 respect for the end user anymore. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty/
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Running Firefox? Better patch! https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/
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Updated.
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Never seen this done before...
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Get an IPS monitor. They're much better all around, and watch out for 6-bit monitors. Instead of using 8x8x8 bits per color, some monitors use 6x6x6 bits, which means they can't display all the colors. This can lead to banding artifacts.
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Its like watching a trainwreck in slow motion. " http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-10s-policy-automatic-updates-causing-headaches-many
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As far as i read you can download a tool from Microsoft, and then you'll be able to choose which updates you want to install. And yeah, i think they do the mandatory automatic updates due to user convenience, or should i say ignorance. But i agree that it should be configurable at least for people who don't want it. That's not a "professional" option but rather something every version should have.
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People are really hysteric about everything concerning Windows.
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I saw a fight breaking out in a parking lot tonight after dinner. I didn't stick around to see who won, though.
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It happens everywhere. More poverty more fights, more drunks, less control, less authority.
I guess in impoverished islamic countries it's even worse.
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Violence - the simple problem solving model for simple people.
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when you say street fight in japan do you mean on playstation?
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Does it make me a Thief freak if I hear footstep sounds from the games when watching documentaries?
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I would think it more likely that movies and games both draw from the same free sound libraries, so you'll get crossover now and then.
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This really makes me sick! Really, it irritates me that much everytime that I'm totally excited!
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Yeah, that happens all the time with the cloacking eletric sound of the Predator in AvP, I hear it everywhere in ads and b-movies. But in a word, yes, yes it does.
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This is some awesome hardware...
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With Android, there are options like fdroid.org. Its completely free and no registration is required to install apps. Now of course Windows traditionally allows this, but they're trying to push the new marketplace. This marketplace thingy suffers from the problems traditionally associated with walled gardens, where the vendor takes a large chunk of the payment when an app is paid for, the vendor gets to be a gate keeper and decide what is allowed, and so on. Apple, Google, and Microsoft will tell you that these market places are good for you because they're secure and vetted, but reality tells a different story. http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-microsoft-store-a-wretched-hive-of-scams-and-fake-apps/ and https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150603/18215331214/apples-arbitrary-review-process-now-being-used-to-stop-competing-pebble-smart-watch.shtml and http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/google-in-the-enterprise/malware-in-the-google-play-store-enemy-inside-the-gates/ It doesn't bother me if a marketplace is implemented in Windows, as long as its optional. If they try and pull an Apple, where installing apps outside of the market place is prohibbitted, that would be over the line. The concern is that we are slowly heading in that direction and MS already showed they're not afraid to do it (see Windows RT).
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What's funny is how they will charge 109.99 for Windows 10 or 149.99 for the pro version if you're not running W7 or W8 when you can actually buy a full computer for that price that COMES with Windows. Some examples of computers you can buy for that price are the Intel compute stick (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883800002&cm_re=intel_compute_stick-_-83-800-002-_-Product) or a Windows 8 tablet. Both of these options come with Windows 8 and can upgrade to Windows 10 free. Meanwile they cut features out of Windows 10, like DVD decryption support to make it cheaper to produce. I tried to talk about these things on other places like Reddit, but there are (I believe) astroturfers going around burying any criticism of the product. I wonder if they're the same guys who were paid to promote the XBox One on youtube. http://gizmodo.com/microshaft-is-paying-youtubers-for-positive-xbox-one-cov-1505629858 I'm just glad I can use Linux, avoid this predatory pricing scheme and I do not need to worry about being forced into "the cloud" to get updates or any of that nonsense. IMO attaching a local login to an email address is not a smart thing to do because of privacy concerns. I use Android, but I do not use a Google profile.
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Fan Mission: A House of Locked Secrets by Gelo "Moonbo" Fleisher (2015/05/28)
kano replied to Moonbo's topic in Fan Missions
Greetings! I would just like to say that I am thoroughly enjoying this mission.