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The Dell latitude D820 notebook with the Intel High Definition Audio sound card (snd_hda_intel) has only one jack for microphone and line in inputs. The outcome of this feature was, that only the internal microphone input worked on Linux :)

It was a problem for a longer time, there was a possibility improve — to set the position_fix option, but it never worked for me.

Fortunately, I found an excellent guideline for Debian, where this problem is solved :) Let’s adopt the instructions for Gentoo.

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I would like to have this thing, indeed. It is cute, handsome, perfect, …, you can change its cover…. it can be your alarm… with a nice mp3 ogg… it can display slashdot or digg entries or google calendar events.. it can show photos from flicker… etc.

And it is open! You can extend or change it functionality. I mean no h4cking.. you are supported to do so :) Btw. it runs on Linux :) (I do not know more details.) The company behind it chosen a different strategy then big players in this segment: Philips, Apple or mobile phone producers as Nokia.

Unfortunately, you cannot buy it now — should be available in spring 2007 (although on same pages you can find information about beginning of this year). I keep my fingers crossed :)

A few links:
http://www.chumby.com/corporate
http://chumby.wordpress.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33515138@N00/
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A PDF document is a favourite way how to display and store a view on data, sometimes called as a report. Of course, your Ruby On Rails application can display data in a very nice form, but definitively a PDF document is a way how to store a report. Actually, it is one of the most wanted ways.

There is a nice page How to Generate PDF in Ruby on Rails that describes different frameworks for generating a PDF document in RoR.

Everything seems be fine, shiny… But did you try to generate PDF with a different encoding then ISO-8859-1? Well, maybe you know, maybe not, but there are also another languages and some of them use also special small funny waves or lines under or above (sometimes also on the sides of) a letter. Experts may call them acute, wedge or umlaut. But in the computer world, we can simply call them: complications.

So, are you a lucky person that should to put to a report words like čučoriedka?
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