i’ve been having issues w/ /dev/dsp not being available lately and it’s because nxesd keeps hanging around on my system.

$ sudo lsof | grep dsp
nxesd 11945 flipp 4w CHR 14,3 10785 /dev/dsp

yup. nxclient/nxserver use esd (the enlightenment sound daemon) to manage pushing sound w/ the remote display. i’m not sure why it’s grabbing /dev/dsp for a session where i disabled multimedia support but killing off the nxesd process fixed sound. to fix it permanently, just change your sound playback device to esd in system>preferences>sound.

i spent a few hours this weekend modifying the blogtxt wordpress theme to mimic my old bonq-v2 theme. i still really have issues w/ sidebars, they just don’t do it for me. as far as the blogtxt theme goes, i really haven’t had to modify anything other than the style.css to make all the changes i want.

kudos to scott/plaintxt.org for such a well-rounded theme that’s easy to modify.

i don’t think i’ll ever get used to using em vs px for defining sizes though. i’m going to poke around a little more w/ blogtxt, but i also should see what other themes are out there. there’s apparently been monster growth for the wordpress theming community though. a google search for wordpress+themes now generates 6,870,000 hits.

here’s the top few that looked like they had some useful themes.

• http://themes.wordpress.net/
• http://www.wpthemesfree.com/
• http://topwpthemes.com/
• http://www.themelab.com/
• http://www.solostream.com/
• http://www.wpthemespot.com/
  

and yeah. i just really wanted to post that picture.

only 5 more days! i haven’t updated either one of my boxes running 8.04 beta in a few days because i finally have a stable setup for the moment. i’m planning on backing everything up on the laptop and doing a clean 8.04 install after the final comes out. the ubuntu laptop testing team has a pretty comprehensive dell latitude d620 page, and it looks like suspend/hibernate are working again. sweet!