Ivan's Corner

Author: ivan

  • Skype/pulseaudio fix Mint 16

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    Today I tried a skype call on my truthful AAO which recently got mint 16 and I was frustrated by the sound crackling/distortion. It’s not just a problem with Skype, I believe it’s a problem with, you’ve guessed it, PulseAudio. Workaround? Indeed there is. Disabling PulseAudio’s Glitch Free Audio seems to have solved the crackling…

  • Watch “Betoko – Raining Again (Original Mix)” on YouTube

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    Betoko – Raining Again (Original Mix): http://youtu.be/WO5X9ZUzqXM

  • DDWRT Wan Port is not working

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    If you, like me have TP-Link WR1043ND with DDWRT on it and after assigning a wan port to switch realized that it’s not working just go to: Administration, Commands and paste the code below in the text field: swconfig dev rtl8366rb vlan 1 set ports ‘0 1 2 3 4 5t’ stopservice lan startservice lan…

  • I hate you mister f@#&*#@ rabbit

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    After an afternoon action with broken coolant temperature sensor we headed home, 750km trip. 150-160 later a rabbit jumped in front of pug, destroying: 1. Front bumper 2. One of the AC fans 3. God knows only what else Creating a small coolant leak (roughly liter per 120-130km) in the middle of the night. Oh,…

  • TWRP on nexus 5

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    Was bored today and went to http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/205 and quickly flashed it, working flawlessly as expected. Installation methods are described on the page, the app install method didn’t worked for me.    

  • Nexus 5 with ART

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    Running Art (took a good 5+ minutes to update from dalvik my 160 apps) on my Nexus 5 from few hours – it’s visibly faster than before (not that it was slow before), all tested apps works, will monitor the battery to see is it better as expected. To change go to settings–>developer options –>…

  • Thank you very little Microsoft!

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    Thank you very little Microsoft for making xperia p fastboot drivers non working under Windows 8.1, took me a good few hours to figure it out.

  • Hooray

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    My Nexus 5 just arrived 🙂

  • arkOS

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    A while ago I heard about arkOS project, I liked it and decided to give it some support spreading the word and translating it to  Bulgarian (finished today). Keep up the good work arkOS and good luck!

  • Turn off touchpad when typing = priceless

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    I was pissed by the touchpad of my AAOne (running great under Linux Mint 16 “Petra” Xfce) until I found syndaemon = priceless. -d starts it as daemon (running on background) -i sets the time, default is 2 seconds. Found here, thank you Husse!