Creative Sound Blaster X Fi on Ubuntu Hardy

I got a lot to say but no time to say it. For now just know that I’m back on Linux and fighting with audio incompatibility. It sux because most everything else works on my fresh new Mint Linux (that’s right I’m on Mint now, not Mepis, not Kubuntu…) install. For what it’s worth I think my answers may be here. If you have a Creative Sound Blaster X Fi card and are considering installing the latest version of Mepis, (K)Ubuntu, or Mint, look at this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4823915&postcount=675

There’s a blurb about SLAB vs. SLUB don’t ask me what it means just follow along. I’m going to try this myself in another day or so.

Groovy Ant Secrets

I was pondering about this earlier today. Wondering how I would invoke an Ant task that used nested text data using Groovy Ant. Why? Because I looked at the Ant script task while browsing Ant docs and said, “Hmm. that’d be neat to embed a script in a GroovyAnt build… but how do I pass text?” Well it just dawned on me that the random errors I’d been getting with Groovy’s AntBuilder exposed the answer. Occasionally I’ll forget to prefix a task attribute with an attribute name like:
ant.available(property:'menu.icon.found', '/menu.png', classpath:'target/MapQuestCoolStuff.jar')
And I’ll get an error saying:
ERR: SCRIPT FAILED: The type doesn't support nested text data ("/menu.png").
ERR: The type doesn't support nested text data ("/menu.png").


It’s telling me that the second parameter is being passed to AntBuilder as text instead of a task attribute.