14 Sep
2004
14 Sep
'04
10:56 p.m.
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 07:39 am, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:32 am, tim hall
wrote:
Have not had time for 3 days to get back to this but...Damn! Someones been
looking at it! Been over 150 hits since Saturday... I figured only 2 dozen
or so from this list would bother to look at it...
Anyway, hope to do first edits soon...
R~~
Last Saturday 11 September 2004 21:41, Russell
Hanaghan was like:
Point taken.
http://hanaghan.mystarband.net/7397fxhowto.html
Constructive critism invited!
Immediate thoughts.
Yep. Way too many words in general, you lost me about half-way through
paragraph 5. All I want to know is how to do this thing. Personally I
also think it works better to refer to Microsoft Windows in a more
respectful manner, I know that's not necessarily how any of us feel about
it, but it makes a difference to the potential migrator. People take it
personally being told their OS is useless, even (or especially) if they
know it's less than perfect. There is an argument for use of relatively
plain English, don't worry about seeming a bit 'dry' (generally better to
put the effects on later. ;) - I don't think there's any chance that this
article is going to come over as boring. Also this:
'A great many of the Linux distributions, all based on the same structure
of Linux created by Linus Torvalds years ago,'
gives the wrong impression. Linus Torvalds does the Linux kernel, The
structure of the distros probably owes more to UNIX history and
presently, GNU. There's probably a much better way of putting it than
that. Safer to credit the entire Free Software community for this than
just one individual.
Okey dokey!
The actual HOWTO bit is much better, nice
piccies! I'll be back to
correct your grammar later!
One last question: Is it really necessary to recommend running QJackCtl
as root?
'cause when you start trying to describe how to do this stuff to a noob,
you begin to realize that you have yet to scratch the surface! And the
biggest point made by everyone so far is "I talk too much!" :) So....why? I
figured I would describe the quick and "dirty" way first...then lay out the
methods utilizing realtime-lsm in the 2.6 kernel as I use on my system. But
it involves editing modprobe.conf to setup on boot...that was ~not~
something I want to guide a noob straight into...just more or less testing
if everything works.
If you would like to include any information
about how to do the same
under Debian (A/DeMuDi) for completeness, I 'd be happy to provide the
information once you've edited the existing piece a bit. Actually, most
of what I would have to say is already up at: http://wiki.agnula.org/ and
besides, you're the author, so obviously, do as you will.
Appreciated. May take you up on that.
Keep up the good work!
thanks
Back to the salt mine! :)
> cheers
>
> tim hall