Step 5: Installing and Configuring Sound / Ventrilo

Download Ventrilo

Go ahead and download ventrilo to your desktop for now.

                Install Ventrilo normally following instructions

                Reconfigure Wine

                                Applications -> Wine -> winecfg

                                Select “Audio” tab.

                                Change “Audio” from OSS to ALSA (if it is not already.  This allows software mixing.)

                                Turn on Emulation (at the bottom).

                Configure Sound

                                Right-click on sound button at top right of screen and choose “Options”.

                                Select “More Options” and check them all.  This will enable “Capture” (or your microphone) and other random options you didn’t even know you needed.

                Open Ventrilo

                                Choose “Setup”.

                                Turn off any and all direct-sound options.  Let it choose the default.

                                Test your microphone.  If you have forgotten to enable Capture previously, this will not function.

GARRETH IS GONNA REWRITE THIS PAGE!!!!   (though he might not know it yet)

He ran me all over Ubuntu making changes and I couldn’t keep track of half of them.  Whatever they were, they worked though.

P.S.  The reason we didn't really 'configure' anything is because Linux generally tracks and installs all sound cards by default during the initial install.  if Linux did not track and install yours, might I recommend google.com?

So two weeks ago, as most of you know, I took the week off to be with my wife and kids for the week after wifey had my new farmer.  I decided to goto my son's school on Tuesday to surprise him and pick him up from school.   First time I've ever met his teacher.

"I need to talk to you about Caleb.  He was flipping the finger all day, and when I got on to him about it, he flipped it at me and asked what I was going to do about it."

I spanked him fairly hard, grounded him from nearly everything, made him apoligize to his teacher, and gave him a HORRID lecture.  (He'd rather a second spanking than a lecture.  True story.)

So Monday I come home from work (he's now ungrounded) to find out that he decided he was hungry while my wife and neighbor were at the office in our community visiting my mom.  So he broke into the maintenance guys truck, took the pry-bar, and proceeded to BREAK every lock on the snack machine until the lid would come off right.  ( I just donated that snack machine.  $300.00 )

So, I spanked the crap out of him again, and took away LIFE in general.  THEN I told him he has craploads of chores for ......pretty much forever.  As soon as he gets home from school each day this will be his routine:  A) Do homework, B) Clean room, C) Seperate Laundry, D) Clean dishes, E) Clean living room.  After he's ungrounded, he can start to play after ALL of that is done each day. 

So what does he think up to do NEXT?  He tells his teacher that she can't assign him homework because he has to rake leaves, clean his room, etc, etc, etc and hands his homework back to her.  Get's up from his desk and tells her with a cocky "I don't have to do shit you want me to" attitude that she CAN'T assign him homework, drops the assignment on her desk, and goes and sits back down.

(Props to my son on his balls, seriously.)

So......  Here I'm at an impasse......

A) He's grounded, I can't take ANYTHING else away.

B) I've spanked him more times in the past month than in the past year.

C) He's getting to the age that he's zoneing out when I lecture.

E) Crying hysterically and saying "I'm sorry" lasts about three minutes from him

So what do I do?

He wrote back and front two pages (each line): 

• "I will not lie to my teacher about not having time to do homework and I'm sorry."
• "I will not disrespect my aunt xxx and uncle xxxx and I'm sorry."
• "I will not lie to or about my parents and I'm sorry."
• "I will not steal from my community and I'm sorry."

heh heh heh.

See.

He DID have enough time for homework!