This time we met up for breakfast on Sunday 24th November in a pub/restaurant in an area called Hillend, just outside Edinburgh in Midlothian. The hill close by is the location of the Midlothian Snowsports Centre, an artificial Ski Slope which is very popular in the region for recreation and training.
We chatted for a while inside then moved to Studio C in the car park and recorded this episode.
We were talking about PDAs (Personal Data Assistants) from the 1980’s.
hdajackretask
to correct this. This is part of the alsa-tools-gui
package on Debian (and related)4, but has a non-intuitive UI.hdajackretask
from the ALSA Projectwhat_pi
scriptThe person using a Palm Pilot to take meeting notes had an external keyboard, and wasn’t using handwriting recognition!↩
calibre
was failing with the error: ImportError: No module named functools_lru_cache
. It later proved possible to fix this by reinstalling a Python module: pip2 install --force backports.functools_lru_cache
↩
There have been no releases of Clementine since 2016 sadly, though there are more recent changes on the GitHub page.↩
Information on the web about alsa-tools-gui seems a little sparse. The hdajackretask application has a README file in the distribution that gives some information.↩
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