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Connecting your computer to a stereo system

Posted 04-18-2010 at 07:33 PM by William (Dthdealer) (Whaling the FOSS)
Updated 04-18-2010 at 07:41 PM by William (Dthdealer) (Finished off post)

My computer has output jacks for only the TRS standard audio plug. My 20 year old amplifier only has input jacks for the RCA red and white plugs ( same as the the red and white of the red,white,yellow combo for televisions).

Without going to the shops and buying a new adapter cord or device, I reminded myself both rely on the exact same technology. Upon splitting the cords, this was confirmed.

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/936...audioplugs.png

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William (Dthdealer)

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Windows 7 'losing' your background.

Posted 04-17-2010 at 04:37 AM by William (Dthdealer) (Whaling the FOSS)

Recently I had to use a Windows 7 box. After using vista before my first action of course was to change the aero theme back to the good old rectangles of classic.

Soon however I came across an annoyance. Fancy that, coming across an annoyance in Windows within minutes of using it. Insert more sarcastic remarks relating to rare cosmic events here.

I have a beautiful tiling image in PNG format as my background. It seems the people in the Microsoft testing department only...

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To save tboot/SINT debug message to memory

Posted 04-16-2010 at 12:04 PM by tj1235

Hello,

Is there anyone know how to save tboot/SINT debug message to memory instead of RS-232?

Cheer

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Partitioning

Posted 04-16-2010 at 06:43 AM by Indymaynard

I discovered that I wasn't as wise on partitions as I thought I was. It's a shame it even became necessary for me to need to figure this out, but I guess that when new technology is taking over the old, you will have a short time of pain during the overlap.

There also was a difficult time of figuring out the answer on Google.

I have an older 1U server (Tyan Thunder K8) that has a 4 drive RAID controller (3ware Escalade). I recently upgraded all of the hard drives because...

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How to install Nginx to run Drupal with boost, on an Arch Linux server

Posted 04-15-2010 at 10:54 PM by ggarron

I have just written a How-to. It may help you to install Nginx, to serve drupal pages, at the same time with Drupal boost module, this configuration is extremely fast.
But may the best thing is that it uses so few resources that is a good option to be prepared for slashdot, or digg.

http://www.go2linux.org/linux/2010/0...nux-server-727

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