An engineer's life around Kyoto

Recently, I had to move a personal settings of Firefox in Microsoft Windows XP machine to Windows 7. As a reminder for myself, I write down the instruction here: Copy a folder C:\Documents and Settings\ userid \Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox in XP machine to C:\Users\ userid \AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox in Win7 machine. Copy a folder C:\Documents and Settings\ userid \Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox in XP machine to C:\Users\ userid \AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox Note that the above ' userid ' is an account name of the user. A similar copying policy is applicable to Mozilla Thunderbird.

I have been in trouble over setting up my laptop Linux box (Panasonic T7) to enable the headphone output. I have been looking into PulseAudio sound system settings in the desktop menu to enable it, But recently, I found that I had to check both ALSA soundcard device driver and PulseAudio sound system configurations. Unfortunately, the headphone output switch was disabled in the ALSA configuration. What's worse, the configuration item is hidden by default! After that, I noticed that the microphone input is muted, I search around the configuration menus and found that the amplitude of the microphone is minimized in the hidden configuration item in the PulseAudio setting panel. Hmm, isn't the sound system too complicated and guiding information too few ?

It's been a long time since my last post. Recently, I bought a secondhand Panasonic T7 laptop PC. It was as much as seven thousand yen (about 76 USD), and I am pleasant for the price. I installed Debian 7.1 (wheezy) to the PC and set up Xfce desktop environment. Most of the things went well, but the X-Window system didn't recognize automatically that its touch pad device was circle and able to sense tapping operations. I was disappointed a while, but managed to write additional configurations for the X server with a help of the man page of Synaptics touch pad input driver. For reminder,  here it is: $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "InputClass"     Identifier  "MyTouchPad"     MatchDriver      "synaptics"     Option        "TapButton1" "1"     Option        "CircularPad" "true"     Option        "CircularScrolling" "true" EndSection According to "man synaptics&q

The Debian's next major version 'wheezy' is planned to be released this year. Before the release, I have already upgraded my home PC to wheezy. But after I upgraded the latest kernel, I have experienced kernel crashes frequently. Owing to the detailed review and good inspiration of the kernel maintainers, the cause was detected shortly and the fix has been prepared for the next kernel package release. The cause was a wrong change of the Intel graphics controller's driver, which was introduced to the wheezy's kernel in the last autumn. The crashes of this cause seems to be reported on the BTS only on the PC's with Intel 82865G graphics driver. I hope owner of the PC's like mine be happy until the wheezy is released.