[TriLUG] Two unrelated questions: ALSA and fortune

[Brian Henning]

Hi List!
   First of all, could someone remind me how to get ALSA to save its 
settings from one reboot to the next?  All this tinkering with kernels 
and vmware and whatnot has led to a need to reboot fairly frequently, 
and it's pretty annoying that my sound service mutes itself each time..

Secondly, I'm running Debian Sarge, and almost all my fortune cookies 
are in Italian.  Is there a quick and easy way to switch to English 
fortunes, or do I have to go through and remove all the Italian 
fortunes, find, download, and install English ones?

Thanks!

Cheers,
~Brian