Mementous Koala Bears v9.10

So that's how you do it!

You should run alsamixer to control volumes.

And then you probably need to run sudo alsa force-reload...that depends on ur config and whether alsa was loaded properly, to start with.

Turns out, they don't interact too well with each other...A lot of the pages I'd looked had asked me to get totally rid of pulse audio, and just single command helped me out : sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio

Pulse Audio's the other. I've, as I said earlier (later?), read thousands of posts on this one and I honestly dunno if this is better or ALSA is.

ALSA seems to be the more popular one...Stands for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture. Just a music enabler for me. Sound Driver. Detects and interacts with sound cards. Blah.

I had read through, literally, tens of pages before getting a hang of what the hell was going on. Before changing the grub menu n gettin the right kernel, I'd had more severe errors, as in my sound card wasn't even getting detected. Now that it was getting detected, i just had to get it activated. Looks like Ubuntu comes with two primary sound systems : ALSA and Pulse Audio. (You're probably getting a hang of it by now)

Turns out I'd the wrong kernel loading all along!!! Some guy on some forum, apart from admitting the fact that he was stupid, showed me the way!

I boot in the first time next morning, and the sound's not working!!!! Bein a musical guy, I JUST CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT MUSIC!! And of course all the videos...What the hell!? Google is ur friend :)

Recently I decided to take the plunge and give Karmic Koala a try (hogli maade bidana anta). It took all of 5 hours and 1.3 GB and me waking up at 3 am in the morning to check whether it had completed (started only at 9 :P ), but it did complete...Just shut the bleddy machine down and slept off....

Hello unsuspecting readers of my blog,
Today you've been sucked into a reverse tech post! Not only are tech, Linuksy things hard to follow as it is, I've made u go through the story all ulta (wide screen and dolby surround :P)
Thank you and have a good day and hope you guys learnt something :D

Now you'll probably try to read bottom up...Leave comments about the loopholes...I will just pick the spinach stuck between my teeth lazily with a fine sharp wooden toothpick and loff at ur indignation!

Growing up

What does it mean to've 'grown up'? :

• To think more from your mind than yielding to your heart
• Drawing from experience! Experience implies that whatever's happening to u now has happened before, atleast once, and that atleast is indicative of u having infested earth for a while now. And to draw from experience and learn lessons is definite proof of hippocampal advances.

A HUGE lizard crawling across the wall next to my bed does not help when u are writing a post. It hung on the wall and made several clucking noises. I wondered if it was a mating call.

I just kept staring at it, hoping or wishing (AHA!) that it won't slip and fall onto my bed, making a 'weeee' noise as it fell...

• To indulge more in hope, wishful thinking and patience rather than act out of boiling red bledd.

Currently listening to : Let it Be - The Beatles

How the writer never changed...

Once in a while your blog creeps up on ya and bites ur own mind off... (yes thats right you read that right)

Murali is in cunningham road.
Murali goes to Infinitea.
Murali pauses while standing in front of Infinitea and sees Shezan restaurant and thinks of all the memorably bland Peas Pulaos he'd had there when working for Hewlett Packard Pvt Ltd.
Murali wipes a tiny tear off left cheek.
Murali realizes it was just sweat (Alreddy februari is hot pa April March devre gathi)

Murali walks into Infinitea. The Prodigal Sun (employee) returns, more mature, more serene....
None the wiser though.

He orders English Scones. The dish sounds delightful and rather pretentious no? He orders anyways, having a glorious picture in his mind.

He gets 4 biscuits.
One spoon of jam.
An iota of cream, which looked like some pigeon slurped it in for lunch, let it pass through its body and its excretory system ejected it with a horrendous feeling of shock and dismay.

He stepped out of Infinitea thinking I should record this weird syndrome he has...and he should title the post 'The Cookie Syndrome'. Looks like somebody's already done that for him :

The Cookie Syndrome

I couldnnav put it better myself :)

P.S : 4 years from now, I'll buy some more extremely inane bullshit in a rather overpriced place and write another post and provide a link for this one in that one. This is, of course, we survive 20 12 2012.

Bile

"...Further we would like to inform you that the form now onwards you bile generated day will be on 25th of every month.

In case you need further assistance, please do call or email us. We'll do our best to help you."

Happy to help,
English_Impaired_Happy_Helper

From Vodafone Customer Care (yeah you guys! you reading this?)...

The rest of the mail, preceding the absurd sentence shown above, was very normal and formal.
Looks like she took a big swig from a jar of bile juice sitting on her desk and assigned my monthly bile cycle!