Michael Osburn

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Making Ubuntu play nice with libdbd-oracle-perl

I started working on some new perl scripts and realized that i have not installed the libdbd-oracle-perl package on my desktop since the upgrade. If anyone is looking for how to do this on a Ubuntu Maverick machine ( I know, right before 11.04 comes out but it still worked in the alpha ). First [...]

MPD with Pulse Audio on Ubuntu

I have been using MPD for a number of years and have always found it to be reliable. Upon installing it on an ubuntu netbook I discovered a very annoying issue, any other sound causes the default MPD configuration file tends to choke out if another application plays a sound. This does not happen right [...]