Installing M-Audio Ozone on 64 Studio / Ubuntu Hardy

I had to install the drivers for my M-Audio Ozone again today and thought I would put the steps in a nice little package here.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install madfuload
$ sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/42-madfuload.rules

Comment or delete it all out and put in this line:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0763", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2808", RUN+="/usr/local/sbin/madfuload -l -3 -f /usr/local/share/usb/maudio/ma008100.bin -D $env{DEVNAME}"

$ sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

Plug in and power on the Ozone.

$ dmesg |tail
should see a line like "usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio"
$ aplay -l
You should see the Ozone listed as a sound device.

Happy jammin. :)

Oil change and some breakfast hash

So I needed to get an oil change and since my warrenty was up at Freeway Ford, where we bought our 2007 Focus, I decided to find a place in the neighborhood. I dropped my address, search for nearby auto places and Action Auto came up. It had some good reviews and sounded like a family run shop so I decided to try it out.
The service was great and the price was good. I got to meet one of the two brothers that run it and told me that their dad has owned the place for thirty some years. While I waited for the work to be done I walked across the street to try out the Citizen Cafe for some breakfast.
I got the roasted vegetable hash with a fried egg. It was a delicous blend of potatoes, carrots and parsnips(which were mighty sweet) and a perfectly over easy runny yoked egg on top. To top it all off they served me some house made hot sauce. I have to get back their with my wife to try some dinner or even break fast again. Yum Yum. :)

Gmail and GMX Imap in Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0

I keep having to track down IMAP settings for my two mail accounts, so I am putting them in one place.

Gmail:
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server - requires SSL: imap.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 993
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - requires TLS: smtp.gmail.com (use authentication)
Use Authentication: Yes
Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL)
Port: 465 or 587
Account Name: your full email address (including @gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com
Email Address: your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com
Password: your Gmail password

GMX:
Incoming server: imap.gmx.com

Port: 993

Uncheck TLS

Username: yourname@gmx.com

Outgoing server: mail.gmx.com

port: 465

SSL on

Username: yourname@gmx.com