Frustrations

[sniffnoy]

Nope, installing a proper 64-bit OS on this thing did not somehow magically fix my hardware problems. As expected. (More properly, I was pretty certain were hardware problems, and this provides further evidence for that.) Will just have to send this thing back for repair/replacement... though I think I'll wait till July for that...

Here are two things annoying me recently:

1. How the hell do I capture audio output on Ubuntu? I'm still using Maverick, FWIW. I was trying it with Audacity but the precise program shouldn't really matter. I remember doing this years ago and it wasn't hard - though that was probably on Windows, not Linux. I can't find any way to capture audio from line out on Ubuntu. Barring the obvious hardware solution, of course. But this computer doesn't have a microphone jack so that's no good.

2. That mystery from two entries ago. I figured, there's no way I'm going to figure this out, I'll see if I can just ask Twitter about it. Problem: They don't seem to supply any way to get in contact with them for stuff like this! Not via email, anyway. I mean they must receive a ton of email anyway but it still stands a better chance of being read than a tweet to @twitter, I imagine. Who the hell can I ask about this?

-Harry

Comments

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

...that would explain it, then, if the card didn't support it, because indeed I was looking under alsamixer and related. Well, that's stupid.

[joshuazelinsky.livejournal.com]

Proposed test of 2: Make another Twitter account, use it from the same IP addresses, see if it gets recommended to your main account?

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Heh, I never did carry out the whole "asking people on school networks" thing because I didn't think it would yield much information. But this is nice and direct. Of course, what I would actually expect to see would be Sniffnoy getting recommended to the test account rather than vice versa, but either way...

I'll make sure to use a completely different email address which isn't linked to anything else, just to be sure.

[joshuazelinsky.livejournal.com]

Also clear cookies so that you know it isn't seeing anything that suggests that both accounts are using the same computer.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

May be a bit too late for that. :P But I'll try anyway.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Right now I have the problem that it is still refusing to suggest anything to me, despite having made a number of tweets and follows. (Following things unlikely to be at all connected to me - mostly cricket. I'm kind of afraid of checking with Sniffnoy that they aren't at all connected, though, as...)

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

They're on Natty, I just haven't bothered to upgrade. :P