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Skype QOS on OpenWRT

If you are calling Skype to Skype and sharing Internet connection with roomies Skype calls can be sometimes painful. I have always used  qos-scripts package in OpenWRT distro. But doing Skype qos is not easy without L7 protocol filters. I got finally fed up with choppy Skype calls and installed l7-protocols package. The only [...]

Ferrari One and Skype

After installing Karmic and Skype on the Ferrari One, Skype would not capture any sound. Eventually I found this thread that suggested installing pavucontrol and then maxing out one of the mic channels and turning down the second channel to 0 would make the mic work. That did indeed work. Hopefully, this all will work [...]

Stellarium

So last Friday, having few beer and staring at the sky I realized I can figure out maybe two star patters. That kinda pissed me off. So I found open source planetarium software called Stellarium. That was the first one I found and I did not look any further. It’s very cool, and probably the [...]