28 Aug
2016
28 Aug
'16
7:28 p.m.
In a moment of stupidity I managed to trash the install on one of my machines.
There was no practical way to undo the damage (this is debian testing) so I did
a fresh install from scratch - I must say the debian install discs have improved
a lot!
Anyway the first time I tried to do any audio work I got Xruns all over the
place on stuff that had been rock-solid previously. However, a quick look at
htop revealed that pulseaudio was running three threads right in the middle of
the jack stuff. Deleting just the 'pulseaudio' server cured the problem, and
nothing else seems to complain.
The icing on the cake is that various programs that like to make annoying beeps
and bongs are now quite silent :)
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
28 Aug
28 Aug
7:51 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:27:51 +0100
Will Godfrey <willgodfrey(a)musically.me.uk> wrote:
In a moment of stupidity I managed to trash the
install on one of my
machines. There was no practical way to undo the damage (this is
debian testing) so I did a fresh install from scratch - I must say
the debian install discs have improved a lot!
Do they include ping nowadays ? Or do they still find it takes too
much place and is absolutely not needed ? :)
Anyway the first time I tried to do any audio work I
got Xruns all
over the place on stuff that had been rock-solid previously. However,
a quick look at htop revealed that pulseaudio was running three
threads right in the middle of the jack stuff. Deleting just the
'pulseaudio' server cured the problem, and nothing else seems to
complain.
First time I hear about htop. Just compiled it and installed it.
I'll use that for the next 'crackling session'. Did you use the F5
'Tree' option ? - any other interesting options to aid in
troubleshooting ?
The icing on the cake is that various programs that
like to make
annoying beeps and bongs are now quite silent :)
It's amazing how this is still going on. It should be very clear
that the hollywoodian sci-fi paradigm of having beeps and
blops going one with electronic instruments does not make any sense.
It will turn anyone mad to spend 1 year in space with that noise
going on for the most of the time. Software makers still think it's a
good thing to have a beep along warning and error messages. There are
rare cases of practical use, as when receiving emails, and that's
a maybe.
8:03 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:27:51 +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
The icing on the cake is that various programs that
like to make
annoying beeps and bongs are now quite silent :)
Some apps open windows and warn you, if they can't excess the sound
card. Try to burn a data DVD with k3b, without giving it access to a
soundcard. On my machine some programs are allowed to use the bell (PC
speaker beep), e.g. terminal emulations, apart from this only audio
related software, synth, hard disk recording etc. are allowed to use
the sound card.
In the future we need to get used to whacky computer signal tones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKJcgelw2F4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKBvaOLDem0
http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads/sound-effects/star-trek/tos/
8:14 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:03:11 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote:
In the future we need to get used to whacky computer
signal tones.
And a full 10 hours of it at that.
Imagine a full 2 years. Give them nuclear weapons and phasers and the
planet they will find is toast. That is, if they don't kill
themselves going there.
Mind you, the 8 hours of the sleeping quarters is not much
more re-assuring.
8:43 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:14:32 -0400, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote:
Imagine a full 2 years. Give them nuclear weapons and
phasers and the
planet they will find is toast. That is, if they don't kill
themselves going there.
:D
OTOH people also need to learn to live with a tinnitus without running
berserk. For some cultures din is normal. I know a lot of Gypsies,
they like loud noise, music played by a mobile phone as loud as
possible, at the same time a television set is turned on, as loud as
possible, while nobody is watching television and things like this.
The perfect spaceman perhaps is a Gypsy with tinnitus.
Since around a week I need to take antihypertensives, a loud very high
tinnitus is a side-effect. I most likely will lay earth in ashes next
week ;).
--
[rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cat script.sh
#!/bin/bash
function bee_beep
{
printf "\n\aBee-"; sleep 0.15; printf "\abeep! \n"; sleep 0.5
printf "\aBee-"; sleep 0.15; printf "\abeep! \n"; sleep 0.5
printf "\aBeep! \n"
}
bee_beep
sleep 0.65
bee_beep
echo
exit
[rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ ./script.sh
Bee-beep!
Bee-beep!
Beep!
Bee-beep!
Bee-beep!
Beep!
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