pavelmachek (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pavelmachek) wrote,@ 2008-03-13 09:19:00 |
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Wikipedia, evil autorepeat, strange usb and good wireless news
There has been recent talk about "wikipedia should accept advertising to keep itself from bankrupting". Well... there's easy way to "fix" this: set up wikipedia mirror, add advertising, and send the generated money to wikipedia foundation. I may even use that mirror...
X windows seem to be doing software autorepeat, even on plain PS/2 keyboards that are perfectly capable of autorepeating themselves. That's wrong and stupid: as soon as you get non-trivial interrupt/scheduling latencies, your keyboard becomes unusable. Console gets this right: if your interrupt latency is too high it will loose keystrokes due to limited buffer, but at least it will not insert new ones so you can actually make progress on typing.
Played with USB soundcard a lot... and found a magic way to make it play at least mono... Seems like playing 8-bit sound is required in order to kick it to work?!
And after about 2 years, good news in iwl3945 land: it still crashes (under evil kind of load) but at least you can now compile it into kernel (not a module). That means that Thinkpad x60 finally got to state of Thinkpad x32, functionality-wise.
There has been recent talk about "wikipedia should accept advertising to keep itself from bankrupting". Well... there's easy way to "fix" this: set up wikipedia mirror, add advertising, and send the generated money to wikipedia foundation. I may even use that mirror...
X windows seem to be doing software autorepeat, even on plain PS/2 keyboards that are perfectly capable of autorepeating themselves. That's wrong and stupid: as soon as you get non-trivial interrupt/scheduling latencies, your keyboard becomes unusable. Console gets this right: if your interrupt latency is too high it will loose keystrokes due to limited buffer, but at least it will not insert new ones so you can actually make progress on typing.
Played with USB soundcard a lot... and found a magic way to make it play at least mono... Seems like playing 8-bit sound is required in order to kick it to work?!
mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1 -af format=u8 KDE_Startup.wav
mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1 -af format=s16le -af resample=48000
-af channels=1 KDE_Logout_1.ogg
And after about 2 years, good news in iwl3945 land: it still crashes (under evil kind of load) but at least you can now compile it into kernel (not a module). That means that Thinkpad x60 finally got to state of Thinkpad x32, functionality-wise.
