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Polk Place in Summer

I’ve recorded ~7 minutes of ambient noise out on Polk Place. Note that the bell tower rings half past at 4:12 in the recording. You can find multiple file formats here. Please note that this audio is free to use under a Creative Commons license:

Polk Place in Summer by Cristóbal Palmer is licensed under a [...]

we’re living in the future


‘nobody cared (try booting with the “irqpoll” option)’ and a BIOS upgrade for my ThinkPad

Have a look at some lovely dmesg output I was getting when sound died:
[21468.992000] irq 18: nobody cared (try booting with the “irqpoll” option)
[21468.992000] [<c015b594>] __report_bad_irq+0×24/0×80
[21468.992000] [<c015b852>] note_interrupt+0×262/0×2a0
[21468.992000] [<f88dbe35>] tg3_read32+0×5/0×10 [tg3]
[21468.992000] [<c015aab0>] handle_IRQ_event+0×30/0×60
[21468.992000] [<c015c23b>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xbb/0xf0
[21468.992000] [<c0106b1b>] do_IRQ+0×3b/0×70
[21468.992000] [<c0106b20>] do_IRQ+0×40/0×70
[21468.992000] [<c012da61>] irq_exit+0×51/0×80
[21468.992000] [<c0118735>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0×55/0×80
[21468.992000] [<c0105223>] common_interrupt+0×23/0×30
[21468.992000] [...]

bob young talk posted as mp3 audio

I recorded Bob Young’s talk earlier today with my Zoom H2. I’ve now posted the audio as an mp3 file (73 MB). The video should follow in the coming days.
Enjoy!