Rhythmbox crossfading

Rhythmbox has had the option to use crossfading for a few releases now, but it had always just crashed. Well good job to the Rhythmbox authors, because it’s smooth and stable in Rhythmbox 0.12.0 in Ubuntu 9.04. I’ve set it to 0.3 seconds and it’s been quite elegant.

Static sound in Ubuntu

I just updated to the 2.6.28-13 kernel in Ubuntu 9.04 and sound was just playing static. The solution was to raise the volume on the PCM slider, for some reason it was down to 0.

Fun with Google Trends

Google Trends got some updates so I was playing with it. Some funny correlations:
New Years Resolutions
The changing seasons

Enable indicator LED for Intel 2200BG and 2915ABG wireless cards

The 2200BG and 2915ABG cards use the ipw2200 driver, which is able to control the wifi indicator LED which most laptops will use.

To enable, run the following as root or with sudo privileges:
echo "options ipw2200 led=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.modprobe
modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200
Note that these steps were used with a Dell Inspiron 6000 and Ubuntu 7.10. Certain chipsets may instead use the acerhk module, or need to add the “options ipw2200 led=1″ to a different location.