Ubuntu

One problem with my ever growing collection of movies and tv is the volume wars between formats. Add in music video downloads from iTunes and Amazon and the variabations become extreme. With a little creative searching I found an addon that can be added to the ALSA sounds system on my Ubuntu installation to this work on-the-fly

Many users out there will be using KDE or Gnome for their day-to-day Linux usage, so want have any problems shutting down their PC. How-ever I recently set-up and terminal-only machine as a kinda adhoc NAS device and found there is no easy way of to shutdown or restart the computer with out using the sudo command and entering your password to become root. So this is how I got around the problem, by removing the need for the sudo password.