I used to listen to KFI all the time when I lived in Orange County. I’d leave it on 24/7, either using it for background noise while I worked on something, or listening to John and Ken and, uh, “relaxing”.
A while back, on the order of years, I bought a new laptop. The one I wrote the Sharp PC-MM10 Linux-Laptops page for, as a matter of fact. I was bored one day, and I realized I could stream KFI through the wireless net to the little thing. It was cool, and relatively painless.
Then the feed URL changed… (more…)
Yes, I finally broke down and bought a new laptop, with my <in-joke>fat Marine Corps paycheck</in-joke>.
It’s running Ubuntu Edgy, after a seemingly endless series of forced dist-upgrades from Feisty. I’ll be posting my experiences with it in a seperate section, since I seem to be the first Linux user to have bought the damned thing.
So far: ethernet works out of the box. The wireless card, a Realtek 8187B, needs a quick hack to the driver source, which I’ve detailed here. Sound and the modem are big question marks. I get 1280×800 with Xorg and the fglrx module. Synaptics touchpad works as expected.
More to come.
