Linux 2.6.11 and ALSA

After a series of upgrades, I found myself without sound on my laptop. I've always found ALSA to be a bit quirky, but this was getting annoying. After fiddling with various kernel options, I remembered I could actually google for the answer. I saw this forum post. In 20 seconds I had sound again. I don't know why those settings should matter, but apparently they do. So now I'm back to grooving to my mp3s while I code. Life is happy again. Just another reason I need to upgrade to a powerbook.

JDK 1.5

1.5 has been out for some time now and I still haven't migrated. I've been holding off because one project I'm working on is staying on 1.4 so I just held off on all of them. But I think it's time to upgrade the others and just make a special case for the 1.4 project. There's too much I don't know about 1.5 yet and I need to get up to speed on it. This hosting service has forced my website code to 1.5 so I might as move everything else up as well.

Transition

Well, it looks like I'm largely back up and running on the new hosting system. DNS looks to be settled down now that all my old entries have been aged out of the system. I have all my external applications running with the exception of my contact servlet. This host uses tomcat 5.5 which I have never used and I get an error on start up. The site works overall but the contact servlet just freaks out and I don't get anything terribly useful in the logs. So now I'm upgrading my dev environment to jdk 1.5 and TC 5.5 to figure out some of this stuff. That's a bit disappointing but perhaps it's time I upgrade a bit anyway. I'm just glad to get all this moved over and out of my hair a little bit.