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I still haven’t gone back to windows. However I found myself flip flopping between using KDE and Gnome.

I didn’t mess anything up this time under Gnome. Everything was working fine. But I decided to back up and do a clean install of Kubuntu. Everything is back up and running and nothing was really lost (except time to get everything).

So last night I loaded up some games. I love the RTS genre so I got Spring Loaded and the Evolution mod. I would really like to play the Star Wars mod but it’s closed for beta testing.
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Played a little Second Life and updated the iPod. I noticed that I need to shut off the screenlets and Conky in order to play the games otherwise I get a flash where they are because the update rate.  I think the extra effects are causing slow downs as well so I shut them off when I am playing a game, but turning it all back on is simple really.

Still bummed about the mixer. Thinking of picking up a headset soon as I can. Just can’t right now. Maybe I will pull out the original USB mic I used on the show MANY moons ago.

So far I have learned that working with little quirks under Linux you need patience.

Finally I finished sorting out all my music files and got them back on the external HD! So I started to get things together to record my podcast. Hooked up my mixer, turned it on and plugged it into the USB port. The system found it OK. I checked it with Skype.

Beautiful.  Launched Audacity and chose the input for the mixer and started recording.  The waveform was flat..

Hmmmm..

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It’s officially 2 weeks I have been running under Linux and so far so good. There are some inklings residing of returning back to windows, but I am overcoming them slowly but surely.

I watched ITRadio on the live stream and it was running decent aside from the slight skipping because of the wireless connection, but I managed to overcome throwing my machine out the window because of it.

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