Fixing ALSA sound issues

Ony my desktop I’ve removed pulseaudio because I found it to be more trouble than it was worth.  So I use ALSA, which works pretty well.  However, sometimes my audio dies and produces chirps and squeaks only.  I found the easiest way to fix this is the following command: sudo alsa force-reload

Ubuntu 11.04 bugs I’ve experienced thus far

Bug #785681 in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu): “Unable to unblank screen, cursor still present” Bug #616131 in netbeans (Ubuntu): “JavaScript support in NetBeans” Bug #632984 in wxwidgets2.8 (Debian): “libwx_gtk2u_media-2.8.so.0 missing from libwxgtk2.8-0” Bug #790538 in pam (Ubuntu): “pam update causes cron to stop working with “Module is unknown” error” Bug #659738 in sysvinit (Ubuntu): “Duplicate welcome message …

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Will I end up having to write my own Linux twitter client?

I am not at all happy with the state of GNU/Linux twitter clients.  It seems this is all too common in the open source world, too many people working on different products, none of which end up being very good.  I’ve counted 10 native GNU/Linux clients (not counting Adobe Air) and not one of them …

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