Haven’t touched PCLinuxOS in a few days, I thought I would load it up again and explore a little. And I received a nice little surprise. Audio is working! =D Don’t know how or what happened, but it is working now. Although the network icon has changed, from the WLAN signal strength icon to the usual two-computer icon. And the icon placements have changed. Hmm.

Was interrupted today. Was supposed to be spending most of the time at home working on the Kydzedu website, but had to go over to the Uptrend Yishun office to help resolve some PC technical issues. Mr Peh couldn’t check his e-mail (Outlook 2002) because of the 0x8004060c error. A quick search on Google found the solution, Outlook’s .pst file was too large (Windows identified it as 1.93GB). Apparently .pst files are capped at 2GB, but no one thought of working around it by letting it auto-setup a second .pst file. Anyway, I created a new data file for him to hold most of the old mail from his folders, and he could start receiving mail again.

So yeah, today also happens to be the first class for their degree program I think. Anyway, he asked me about Audio/Video setups for classrooms and lecture theatres, with speakers and a wireless microphone for the lecturer. The classroom was pretty long and he wanted to make sure the back people would have no problems listening to the class. I thought of a quick temporary solution: since there were a couple of old PCs lying around with speakers, the fastest way would be to hook up one. It didn’t take very long, just un-mute the microphone in Windows’ volume control panel and you’re all set. If the mic is sounding a little soft, just activate the mic boost setting. =)

Oh, I mentioned I found my 2GB thumbdrive? It’s not exactly in the best of states. Tried to spray paint it and failed. I’m not exactly a good artist.

Anyway, since I have no real use for it at the moment, it’s running Vista’s ReadyBoost at full capacity. Haven’t really noticed much performance gains though. Still, every little bit counts. =)