Posts Tagged ‘sound’

Did my Mac Mini crap out on me?

Or so i thought…. After crashing the software last week it’s been standing here idle. But today i found a new purpose (experiment) to do with it. No more servers, i have solved that otherwise. But to make it a sort of stand-by computer for lengthy tasks or an occasional game or something. Anyway, it [...]

Optical illusions

So a couple of days ago i finally received my new Creative X-FI 5.1 USB Soundcard. Happily plugged it in, it works fine in OSX. Were it not that Apple for some daft reason didn’t have any app but the DVDplayer app support passthrough to the digital interface of soundcards. Lame!! Apparently Quicktime player can [...]

Death by headphone

So i unplug my headphones from my Macbook Pro and now my sound port is broken on it… Nuts! Well the sound port isn’t broken… It works when the headphones are connected and when disconnected it’s convinced i’m using some optical device… completely insane. So our magical tech guy ripped the machine apart and replaced [...]