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Most mortals have to listen to music in a somewhat small room - a closed space, which will usually result in boomy bass at some frequencies, and terrible flutter echo in the upper end of the audible spectrum.
Read this article to find out quick and cheap tricks to remedy the problems.
The Asus UX305CA promises good features, nice display, great looks and very light weight. Find out from this article how it has delivered in practice, and how it has worked running Xubuntu.
| 2019-07-29 | Add note about fixed Wi-Fi. |
| 2018-09-08 | Add note about broken Wi-Fi. |
| 2017-05-18 | Add notes about use in practice. |
Nowadays most Linux distributions probably use PulseAudio for audio. In my opinion, not that long ago it was completely unusable. I still do not use it on my main rig, and find it mostly an unnecessary piece of software that potentially creates latency or configuration problems. In most cases, you usually don't really need it. In this article I'll show some tricks on how to write a killer ALSA setup. Recommended for audiophiles, movie lovers, recording artists and other crazy folks.
In this article we will setup a network bridge for use with KVM virtual machines and use RDP to connect to the guest for effortless workflow. We also discuss some problems you might encounter with the RDP connections.
| 2017-09-09 | Updated network script. |
| 2016-10-11 | Add note about Windows RDP finally working. |
| 2016-07-12 | Add bridged network instructions. |
| 2016-03-25 | Add note about UTC clock in Windows guests. |
| 2016-03-15 | Add note about Windows enterprise edition. |
In a previous article we resized KVM disk images with Linux and Windows guests. In this article we backup the disk images.
In this article I'll show how to grow and shrink KVM disk images with Linux and Windows guests.
| 2020-06-06 | Add how to remove Windows recovery partition. |
| 2018-09-08 | Add note about progress display in dd. |
Getting audio to work with KVM might be a bit tricky, especially when KVM expects to have exclusive access to your audio hardware. This is a problem if one would like to keep on using the host system audio while a guest is running. In this article we solve the problem using ALSA loopback devices.