14 Sep
2004
14 Sep
'04
12:56 p.m.
On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:32 am, tim hall wrote:
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