Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…

PulseAudio

I'm still a Fedora user, even after years of releases that seem to cause more headaches than they solve. I understand it's a bleeding edge distro. But at the current rate of change it's bound to bleed out by the end of the year. Systemd is a pain for me […]

F19 upgrade: is this really getting better?

Tue August 06, 2013 in Fedora / GTK+ / Linux / NVidia / PulseAudio / X11 / XFce

I’ve been having problems playing flash video on my new system at home. The system is a 64bit AMD running F10. Flash video plays but the audio skips a lot. I had similar problems with other applications but was able to get around it by using the right audio setup, […]

Quickies: Flash 64, fixing skipping audio, mapping keys to applications

Thu March 26, 2009 in Audio / Fedora / Linux / PulseAudio / x86-64 tagged 64bit amd / f10 / Fedora / flash player plugin / gnome / keyboard shortcuts / keycodes / logitech internet navigator / MythTV / X11 / xine / xmodmap

Prior to F10 I always created a second user that I allowed to display applications on my desktop that I use to launch a second instance of Firefox. There are lots of reasons to want to do this. The most obvious is that the second user is completely isolated from […]

Multiple Firefox instances with different network settings

Mon March 09, 2009 in Audio / Fedora / Firefox / Linux / PulseAudio tagged f10 / Fedora / firefox / gnome / MythTV / MythWeb / proxy / PulseAudio / sound drivers