Monthly Archives: December 2008

Ubuntu & Xubuntu – No sound in Audacious

December 18, 2008 – 22:57

mplayer, vlc and even the horrible Totem would play my music, but my favourite media player — Audacious — wouldn’t. I like Audacious because of its plugins and subtle interface. Some searching around the web didn’t find many solutions except suggesting that the output plugin was incorrect. I managed to fix this by changing from [...]

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Favourite Quote: “Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence. Simplicity does.”

December 5, 2008 – 09:52

This excellent phrase was coined by Lawrence “Larry” Bossidy, the retired CEO of Allied Signal. What I find particularly interesting about this quote is that it’s so eloquently structured and an example of what it’s stating; the statement is simple yet intelligent. Here it is in all its wonderful, quoted glory:
“Complexity has nothing to do [...]

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