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.

on my xp box and my fc4 box the bookmarks toolbar just wasn’t working. all you need to do is remove you localstore.rdf file. here

i never bothered using the bookmarks toolbar, but it’s an easy way to jump straight to the new post pages on all my various pages. beats having to type in the url.