18.14, Wednesday 3 May 2000

I've spent the entire day trying to get my bastard sound card to work on my bastard Linux box, because it's turned out to be the only card in the world which it isn't easy to configure for. Works now though, thanks to this OPTi931 mini HOWTO.
 
Well, kinda works. Still doesn't work with Festival (although I think that may be a Festival config problem). Festival is free Linux text-to-speech software. I want to use it so random people can announce arbitrary things into my flat. Um. Isn't that, like, really sad?