7 Jun
2007
7 Jun
'07
6:43 p.m.
Hi folks,
The following has nothing to do with audio, or even with Linux per se,
but I think of you as the right sort of people to be interested in
something like this :-) Feel free to write me off-list and we can take
the discussion elsewhere.
I've been programming professionally for about 8 years. I'm
self-taught. Lately I've been wishing I had a better grasp of computer
science fundamentals, but I can't afford the time or money to attend a
degree program. But hey, MIT has most of their academic materials
online for free - including textbooks, class notes, and lecture
videos!
The problem with doing it alone in my spare time is that there are too
many other things competing for my attention. I think it would help a
lot to have an online discussion group - a group that commits to
finish* a given course in a certain number of weeks, and can help each
other stay motivated, and help each other with difficult concepts,
etc. By "finish" I mean: watch every lecture, read the texts, and
complete every assignment.
Is anybody else interested in something like that?
I'd propose to start at the beginning, with the introductory scheme
course:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
(btw, I got this idea from hearing about some people doing something similar
with Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" books. but of course now I
can't find a relevant link.)
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
7 Jun
7 Jun
7:01 p.m.
From: Paul Winkler <pw_lists(a)slinkp.com>
The problem with doing it alone in my spare time is
that there are too
many other things competing for my attention. I think it would help a
lot to have an online discussion group - a group that commits to
finish* a given course in a certain number of weeks, and can help each
other stay motivated, and help each other with difficult concepts,
etc. By "finish" I mean: watch every lecture, read the texts, and
complete every assignment.
Is anybody else interested in something like that?
I'd propose to start at the beginning, with the introductory scheme
course:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
great idea, paul! unfortunately, i'm pretty much out of the loop for the summer. how
'bout we pretend we're *really* in school, and start in september?
virtual, online frosh week, anyone?
--
.pltk.
(checking his beer supply....)
9 Jun
9 Jun
2:29 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:01:49PM -0400, plutek(a)infinity.net wrote:
I am totally up for this, but also flat out right now. A couple of
months notice would be awesome. I like the idea of following the
timeline of the actual course.
Chris.
-------------------
http://mccormick.cx
Is anybody else
interested in something like that?
I'd propose to start at the beginning, with the introductory scheme
course:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
great idea, paul! unfortunately, i'm pretty much out of the loop for the summer. how
'bout we pretend we're *really* in school, and start in september? 
11 Jun
11 Jun
4:23 a.m.
On 6/8/07, Chris McCormick <chris(a)mccormick.cx> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:01:49PM -0400, plutek(a)infinity.net wrote:
same here, i'd love to participate (i agree it's a great idea) but maybe if
we started with a bit of notice (august would be perfect)
wow, i remember taking a course on scheme in 1992. but of course that's all
i remember about it.
thanks for getting the ball rolling,
bernie
>Is anybody else interested in something like
that?
>
>I'd propose to start at the beginning, with the introductory scheme
>course:
>
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
great idea, paul! unfortunately, i'm pretty much out of the loop for the
summer. how 'bout we pretend we're *really* in school, and start in
september?
I am totally up for this, but also flat out right now. A couple of
months notice would be awesome. I like the idea of following the
timeline of the actual course.
Chris.
3:09 p.m.
OK, sounds like we have three people interested in starting in
September. Cool.
I'll look around for a more appropriate forum for further discussions.
-PW
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 11:23:51PM -0700, bernie arai wrote:
On 6/8/07, Chris McCormick <chris(a)mccormick.cx>
wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:01:49PM -0400, plutek(a)infinity.net wrote:
same here, i'd love to participate (i agree it's a great idea) but maybe if
we started with a bit of notice (august would be perfect)
wow, i remember taking a course on scheme in 1992. but of course that's all
i remember about it.
thanks for getting the ball rolling,
bernie >Is anybody else interested in something like
that?
>
>I'd propose to start at the beginning, with the introductory scheme
>course:
>
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
great idea, paul! unfortunately, i'm pretty much out of the loop for the
summer. how 'bout we pretend we're *really* in school, and start in
september?
I am totally up for this, but also flat out right now. A couple of
months notice would be awesome. I like the idea of following the
timeline of the actual course.
Chris. _______________________________________________
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3:43 p.m.
I might be interested as well, whether or not I can do it will depend on
how busy I am this Fall of course, but if you could let me know if/when
I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Seablade
28 Aug
28 Aug
5:48 p.m.
are people still interested in trying this out? september is looming and it
would be cool to try and follow a regular semester timeline!
bernie
On 6/11/07, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I might be interested as well, whether or not I can do it will depend on
how busy I am this Fall of course, but if you could let me know if/when
I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Seablade
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6:57 p.m.
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bernie arai wrote:
are people still interested in trying this out?
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7:30 p.m.
I'm still interested! Sorry, I've been on vacation.
My proposal is still to start with the introductory Scheme course,
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
Regarding the schedule - I'm not too concerned about tracking MIT's
calendar exactly; for one thing I'm not even sure if they're giving
that course this autumn. But September seems like as good a time to
start as any, and we might as well give ourselves a 1-semester time
limit :)
I'll set up a separate mailing list for the study group and post a
link to it here. Feel free to contact anybody else you know who might
be interested and give them my email address.
- PW
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:47:53PM -0700, bernie arai wrote:
are people still interested in trying this out?
september is looming and it
would be cool to try and follow a regular semester timeline!
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
8:04 p.m.
New subject: M-Audio FastTrack Pro: 24Bit/48kHz Mode and Digital I/O
Hi list,
I just realised that there's a patch for the Fast Track Pro that will enable
24Bit/48kHz mode (if I understood it correctly) and digital in/outs. Here's
the entry in the Alsa wiki:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/M-Audio_FastTrack_Pro
Theres a link to the patch, which itself looks like this:
# HG changeset patch
# User Pavel Polischouk <pavelvp <at> inbox.ru>
# Date 1164392350 18000
# Node ID d447f5a178f0d40ec98c4cde2e3d6e4d012a7f65
# Parent 6f81f7397f82b392e40c582e48a02a7c1cbd7c3e
This patch adds the following capabilities to usbaudio.c:
- Merges support for M-Audio FastTrack USB
- Adds proper support for M-Audio Quattro USB
- Adds hot-reload support for all Audiophile, FastTrack and Quattro.
- FastTrack "select configuration #2" quirk is present but #ifdef'd out
pending inclusion of "usb_driver_set_configuration" function in mainline
kernel. This quirk could possibly be handled in user space anyway.
diff -r 6f81f7397f82 -r d447f5a178f0 usb/usbaudio.c
--- a/usb/usbaudio.c Fri Nov 24 11:50:29 2006 -0500
+++ b/usb/usbaudio.c Fri Nov 24 13:19:10 2006 -0500
<at> <at> -2346,11 +2346,16 <at> <at> static int
is_big_endian_format(struct s
{
switch (chip->usb_id) {
case USB_ID(0x0763, 0x2001): /* M-Audio Quattro: captured data only */
..................................... more lines of code
Now, how do I install it?
I really haven't got a clue what to do with the code, any help is appreciated!
Thanks,
Matthias
9:17 p.m.
Yea keep me informed, I am extremely busy, but would still be interested in
taking part most likely.
Seablade
On 8/28/07, Paul Winkler <pw_lists(a)slinkp.com> wrote:
I'm still interested! Sorry, I've been on vacation.
My proposal is still to start with the introductory Scheme course,
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
Regarding the schedule - I'm not too concerned about tracking MIT's
calendar exactly; for one thing I'm not even sure if they're giving
that course this autumn. But September seems like as good a time to
start as any, and we might as well give ourselves a 1-semester time
limit :)
I'll set up a separate mailing list for the study group and post a
link to it here. Feel free to contact anybody else you know who might
be interested and give them my email address.
- PW
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:47:53PM -0700, bernie arai wrote:
are people still interested in trying this out?
september is looming
and it
would be cool to try and follow a regular
semester timeline!
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
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10:58 p.m.
From: "bernie arai"
<bernie.arai(a)gmail.com>
are people still interested in trying this out? september is looming and it
would be cool to try and follow a regular semester timeline!
definitely interested.... i've got a busy fall, so don't know how well i'll be
able to keep up with a "regular semster timeline", but let's see what others
want to do, and how it goes....
--
.pltk.
29 Aug
29 Aug
12:19 a.m.
I must admit, scheme leaves me somewhat cold. I once wrote a prototype
of the symbol table for an Ada compiler in scheme, and I grew to dread
it as a tool. It turns out to be hard to program without global variables.
Also, every time I met Gerry Sussman I ended up thinking (1) he would
be much easier to take if he thought he was only half as smart as he really
thought he was, and (2) if he was half as smart as he thought he was,
he would be twice as smart as me.
Nonetheless, if you wanted to do this I would listen in to email traffic,
and occasionally comment.
I was thinking it would be more interesting to go through the DSP or
maybe the Linear Systems course. But maybe everyone on this list
has more mathematics than programming skills, which is the exact
opposite of my situation.
Paul Winkler wrote:
I'm still interested! Sorry, I've been on
vacation.
My proposal is still to start with the introductory Scheme course,
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
Regarding the schedule - I'm not too concerned about tracking MIT's
calendar exactly; for one thing I'm not even sure if they're giving
that course this autumn. But September seems like as good a time to
start as any, and we might as well give ourselves a 1-semester time
limit :)
I'll set up a separate mailing list for the study group and post a
link to it here. Feel free to contact anybody else you know who might
be interested and give them my email address.
- PW
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:47:53PM -0700, bernie arai wrote:
are people still interested in trying this out?
september is looming and it
would be cool to try and follow a regular semester timeline!
1:05 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 08:57:56PM -0400, plutek(a)infinity.net wrote:
ditto.
Best,
Chris.
-------------------
http://mccormick.cx
From:
"bernie arai" <bernie.arai(a)gmail.com>
are people still interested in trying this out? september is looming and it
would be cool to try and follow a regular semester timeline!
definitely interested.... i've got a busy fall, so don't know how well i'll
be able to keep up with a "regular semster timeline", but let's see what
others want to do, and how it goes.... 
3:22 p.m.
I'm interested in well - put me on the list!
Thanks,
Lisa
On 8/28/07, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yea keep me informed, I am extremely busy, but would still be interested
in taking part most likely.
Seablade
On 8/28/07, Paul Winkler < pw_lists(a)slinkp.com> wrote:
I'm still interested! Sorry, I've been on vacation.
My proposal is still to start with the introductory Scheme course,
"Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs"
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
Regarding the schedule - I'm not too concerned about tracking MIT's
calendar exactly; for one thing I'm not even sure if they're giving
that course this autumn. But September seems like as good a time to
start as any, and we might as well give ourselves a 1-semester time
limit :)
I'll set up a separate mailing list for the study group and post a
link to it here. Feel free to contact anybody else you know who might
be interested and give them my email address.
- PW
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:47:53PM -0700, bernie arai wrote:
_______________________________________________
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are people still interested in trying this out?
september is looming
and it
would be cool to try and follow a regular
semester timeline!
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
4 Sep
4 Sep
1:41 p.m.
Hi everybody who was interested in this,
I've created a project page here:
http://www.openplans.org/projects/open-courseware-6001
You'll need to create an account on that site. You should
then have access to the mailing list,
http://www.openplans.org/projects/open-courseware-6001/lists/ocw-6.001/
Let's get this rolling!
-PW
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:43:18PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
Hi folks,
The following has nothing to do with audio, or even with Linux per se,
but I think of you as the right sort of people to be interested in
something like this :-) Feel free to write me off-list and we can take
the discussion elsewhere.
I've been programming professionally for about 8 years. I'm
self-taught. Lately I've been wishing I had a better grasp of computer
science fundamentals, but I can't afford the time or money to attend a
degree program. But hey, MIT has most of their academic materials
online for free - including textbooks, class notes, and lecture
videos!
The problem with doing it alone in my spare time is that there are too
many other things competing for my attention. I think it would help a
lot to have an online discussion group - a group that commits to
finish* a given course in a certain number of weeks, and can help each
other stay motivated, and help each other with difficult concepts,
etc. By "finish" I mean: watch every lecture, read the texts, and
complete every assignment.
Is anybody else interested in something like that?
I'd propose to start at the beginning, with the introductory scheme
course:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001…
(btw, I got this idea from hearing about some people doing something similar
with Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" books. but of course now I
can't find a relevant link.)
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
1:53 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:41:13AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
Hi everybody who was interested in this,
I've created a project page here:
http://www.openplans.org/projects/open-courseware-6001
You'll need to create an account on that site.
You should
then have access to the mailing list,
http://www.openplans.org/projects/open-courseware-6001/lists/ocw-6.001/
Sorry, forgot to say: to post to the mailing list, you'll first need
to join openplans.org; then once you get the confirmation email, go
back to http://www.openplans.org/projects/open-courseware-6001 and
click the "join" button that should appear.
The site is basically a wiki, and there's also a task tracker thingy
that may or may not be useful to us.
This will be my last message to this list on this off-topic topic.
I hope to see some people there :)
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com
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Bill White -
Chris McCormick -
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Paul Winkler -
plutek＠infinity.net -
Thomas Vecchione