The Blog of Mark (SoftCoder) and Vickie Vejvoda

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I had various thoughts today that all seemed to combine somehow, even though the categories are vastly disparate. If you’re looking for a quick fluffy post then skip this one, it won’t make sense to you.
1. Technology:
Some deeper concentrations whirled through my mind today as I considered the reality of older hardware. Face it folks, [...]

I’m new to the Ubuntu scene and recently have been struggling with getting sound working in all of my Ubuntu applications. After spending weeks working on the problem, I finally learned by reading many discussions around the internet that PulseAudio was a catalyst to many Linux Sound System problems. PulseAudio comes with Ubuntu by default [...]

Having switched my family over to Ubuntu, I have noticed a lot of press coverage talking about Microsoft and Ubuntu. MANY people are switching to Ubuntu, and Microsoft has taken notice. Microsoft has even moved up their release date of Windows 7 the next version of Windows to replace Vista (the largest failure in Microsoft’s [...]

Having posted a lot about my activeX experiences and dealing with CAB files and automatic deployment, today was a low point! Today I added more files to our CAB file that will be auto-deployed and came across the error message in the title of this blog. I wasted a lot of time thinking I had [...]

It has been a little over a week now since switching to Ubuntu and…. the feelings are mixed! First the bad things.
The Bad:
- Hardware support and management CAN BE SERIOUSLY lacking in some cases.
(for example the ALSA aka Advanced Linux Sound System device driver which is used in many cases to provide sound in Linux [...]