[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Setting up linux computer

[Paul Winkler]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:21:18AM -0400, Ruth A. Kramer wrote:
> Paul Winkler wrote:
> > Note that I made a previous attempt at wiki-fying the LAQHT.
> > That attempt is closed for modifications but still
> > available here:
> > 
> > http://www.slinkp.com/LiLAQ/
> > http://www.slinkp.com/LiLAQ/LinuxSoundcards/contents
> > 
> > So I would start with that, it contains some edits that never
> > made it into the LAQHT.
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I've started looking at those pages, but it says you were somewhat
> dissatisfied with the results.  I guess I need to ask you how / why --
> my first approach would probably have been to just duplicate (move) the
> pages to WikiLearn and open it up for modification.  (When I first
> suggested moving it to a wiki, I didn't have any idea it was already on
> a wiki.)

Well, hard to quantify.  Partly I just didn't like the look / feel
of ZWiki at that time. And I was new to wikis in general and didn't
really like the MagicWikiLinkCamelCaseNamingConvention. 
Still don't like it much but I've mostly made peace with it.  
I do tend to prefer the [Arbitrary text in square brackets] link convention 
that I've seen on some wikis.

I also remember feeling it was too hard to find stuff. 
Maybe my organization was poor.

> > I went with LDP license.
> > http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/#copyright
> > Let me know if that's too restrictive, I would be willing to
> > consider others.
> 
> I took a quick glance at it, and it appears to be much simpler than the
> GFDL, so I suspect I can work with it.  I'll let you know if I run into
> a problem.  (I do have to think about the copyright, as it stands now I
> have a boilerplate copyright statement that goes on each page, I (we'll)
> have to decide if that requires modification (which would not be as easy
> as I'd like).  Let me think about it some more before I bother you with
> that.
> 
> Aside: As I started to look at the wiki, I digressed to your home page
> and found things like your PVC saxophone and the "fuzz" box clone.  Neat
> stuff!  (Not that I have any thought of building a PVC saxophone, but I
> don't think I saw any dimensions (like diameter or length of pipe).)

That's because it's a random-tuning noise-maker, not a true
saxophone :-)  Dimensions were entirely arbitrary.

I have no idea where that thing is.


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Paul Winkler
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