November 2011

On Saving Files and Being Saved

I started this morning sorting files. Digital files, that is. This seems to be curse of this day and age. I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 last night but in order to do so I needed to back up all of my files. This is because the upgrade was not seamless. I made several attempts to do so through the Update Manager and consistently received the same error about packages being held. The best suggestion on the forums was to do a fresh install. I prepared a Live CD and rebooted. Once the process started and I discovered that through some glitchy loophole it would upgrade after all.

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The Paradox of Health Insurance

Being broke is awful. My stress level ticks up as my checking balance ticks down. This is going to kill me. Which is funny because so much of my paycheck is going to pay for health care that after the withdrawals are made a visit to the dentist or doctor is beyond my financial means. Oh, the paradox. I can't afford a doctor without health insurance. I can't afford a doctor with health insurance.

Troubleshooting Android ADT Plugin Installation in Eclipse 3.7 on Ubuntu 11.10

I ran into a problem setting up the Android SDK this morning. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10.

More Troubleshooting Android Installation in Ubuntu 11.10

I couldn't get the SDK Manager to download and install any versions of Android older than 4.0.
I would receive an error such as this:

Skipping 'Google APIs by Google Inc., Android API 3, revision 3'; it depends on 'SDK Platform Android 1.5, API 3, revision 4' which was not installed.

The solution is to run Android SDK Manager from root.
Duh.

See http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/203598/

Broken Wear

This is brilliant.

Android, Eclipse and Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit: Error executing aapt

Attempting my MyFirstApp with Android and ran into this problem:

error executing aapt: please check aapt is present blah blah blah.

I found two suggestions for troubleshooting. The first didn't seem to work, though.
1) This is hinted at by Eclipse:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

2) Make sure your permissions are set. In platform-tools, run:

sudo chmod a+x aapt

Kohlrabi with White Almond Sauce

Tonight I made this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/kohlrabi-with-white-sauce/detail.aspx
But I never have cream or milk, so I substituted almond butter and almond milk.
It was fantastic. The nuttiness of the almond nicely complemented the earthiness of the kohlrabi.

Troubleshooting No Sound in Ubuntu 11.10 64bit with MAudio Delta 1010LT & ICE1712

No sound after upgrading to 11.10.

After some long hours of furious Googling I thought, perhaps, I should check my envy24controls.
Lo and behold, it was nowhere to be found. My also-tools were deleted during the upgrade.
So, reinstallation of alsa-tools and -gui and my sound was back up.
But, now, no mention of my hardware in the sound menu.

Alas, as I continually learn in the open source world, I can't have my cake and eat it too.