Sound lost on uprgrading ubuntu 8.04-solved

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, I lost sound on my comp.
When I checked with kernel options like

$lspci
$lshw -c sound

every thing seemed to be fine, but still I wasn't able to hear any sound.
Then just tried this command

$alsamixer

and increased all the values to maximum. Then

Bingo! here comes the music

Ps: caution with those values as making those high gives an ugly squeak in your speakers.

All thanks to ubuntu forums for the support.

Naming Cermony of my room as ಜ್ಞಾನ Villa.

Today I'm happy to share with you that my room was named ಜ್ಞಾನ Villa which means "Villa of knowledge". This was inspired by our noted,famous Kannada play writer TP Kailasam.
But any way this has another funny meaning when read in Kannada. Can you tell me what it is?

Rover Bot

Well here's my First Robot. Its a Rover bot. Couldn't do serious/ real time testing cuz of technical constraints.

Specs:
Driven by a Single motor-1.5V DC
Two gears driving the crank
and one worn gear driving all those gears.

Must admit that has appreciable torque which makes it real fast.

Micro controllers here I come!

Finally after trying it out for more than 6 months and seriously trying it out for 15+ days I was finally able to program My ATMega8 micro controller. All thanks to Avrdude and My brother for the ISP mkII.

So micro controllers here I come to join your elite club!