During the weekends I was trying to use a MIDI sequencer on my laptop. The problem with software MIDI synthesising/sequencing is that it requires very fast and real-time response. It normally leads to a latency issue and you can hear lagged, low-quality sound while playing music. A latency more than 10ms is hardly acceptable so [...]
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Lenovo Ideacentre Q150 with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
My system: Q150 + Nvidia Ion + Ubuntu 10.10 + HDMI + Lan Wired Network: There are random eth0 errors which cable power is not detected. Simply, shut the system down for 5-10 seconds and reboot. Nvidia Ion, HDMI: Most of the major issues are related to the Nvidia driver, and the opensource driver does [...]
Trac Served by Lighttpd on Debian Lenny
Last week I found a very nice Trac+Lighttpd tutorial at landschoff.net. It was comprehensive and practical, however, I found that the configuration part does not fit my demand. Generally, Trac is installed for each project we need to put online. Sadly though, programmers are low-paid, so one domain name may contain more than one projects. [...]
Install Lighttpd and Subversion on Debian Lenny
Introduction This article is a step-by-step guide for installing Lighttpd (pronounced lighty) and Subversion on Debian Lenny. My previous setup was Subversion with Apache, however Apache was too heavy for my virtual private server so I had to move to Lighttpd. Most resources from the previous article are used in this article as well. Sadly, [...]
WordPress Pretty Permalinks on Lighttpd
At some point in your WordPress-life, you need a pretty permalink (name of the link at the navigation bar). On Apache we can easily use the rewrite module (mod_rewrite) which works pretty well. On the other hand, I found it confusing to make the equivalent rewrite rule on Lighttpd, therefore I use the other module [...]