Archive for December, 2008

No Sound on Ubuntu 8.10 with Intel Sound Card

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

In addition to the problems I have had with KDE after my upgrade to 8.10, I also lost my sound. I have been trolling the Internet trying to find a solution and finally got it fixed after a couple days of frustration. I followed the instructions here for PulseAudio, and now everything seems to […]

Pass multi-dimensional array in ajax request with jQuery

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

I have a bunch of javascript objects flying around page that interacts with Google Maps, and I wanted to get the data out of some of the objects to pass via a jQery AJAX $.post call to a PHP script. jQuery seems to have everything, so I was surprised there wasn’t any functionality built in […]

GMap Double Click Event Fired When Double Clicking on Markers in Firefox

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

According to the Google Map’s documentation, a doubleclick event should not be triggered on the GMap object when it occurs on a marker : “This event is fired when a double click is done on the map. Notice that this event will not be fired if the double click was on a marker or other […]

Seattle Weather and Amazon

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Here is Seattle we are having a cold spell, which has allowed about 6″ of snow to accumulate where I live, with upwards of 12″ in other neighborhoods. Not a lot considering what I used to deal with in Vermont, but no plows, no sand/salt on the road, lots of hills and drivers unaccustomed to […]

KDE problems on Intrepid

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

I updated to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and while the new interface for KDE looks great, I am having major problems. Need to get some work done, so I haven’t had a chance to try and figure out what the issues are. I am writing this while using Gnome… Here is a nice screenshot of my […]