I just spent over an hour, frustrated and cursing because Ubuntu flatly refused to recognise my SB Live 24-bit. I know ALSA supports it because it worked in the other puter, and I’d disabled the onboard sound (thankfully a BIOS option and not a jumper). No matter what I did, though, it refused to detect […]

…when you combine a pile of computer hardware, two eejits and a steady stream of alcohol? You get….my new computer! 🙂 It’s all done now except for the heatsink/fan, which is currently an AMD stock that P managed to find (the only one in existence in MV except those sold with a processor), but will […]