On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:56:11AM +0100, Daniel James wrote: > > you're welcome to come to my gig with 'a guy called gerald' on > > april 25th in london > > What's the venue and time? > > For those of you not familiar with Gerald's work, he is a true innovator - and > a technology fiend too! In the UK he is best known as a pioneer of acid > house, which kicked off the whole 'rave' thing. > > > and listen to my alsa cvs sound drivers running > > alongside my patched kernel. > > In my generalisation, I didn't mean that there are zero musicians with the > necessary code skills. But consider my proposition in terms of sets - out of > all the musicans in the world, only a subset have access to electricity. A > subset of those have access to a computer. A subset of those run Linux. And a > final subset have the advanced system configuration knowledge required to > build and maintain the kernel, jack, applications etc. Out of that relatively > very small group, some of the members would prefer to practise their > instrument or mix their album than tinker with software. > > In my own case, I have compiled kernels in the past, and got jack running from > scratch, but with ready-made RPMs I can avoid duplicating effort and get on > with creative work. Thanks to people like Thac and Austin I can now start > editing the 40+ tracks we've recorded with the minimum of hassle. fair enough. I just couldn't resist responding to the 'show me a musician who compiles kernels etc' sentence becaouse i could prove exactly the opposite to be true. I'm basically bitter because i'm on a powerpc so i can't get planet rpms. ;) venue is 93 feet east, http://www.93feeteast.co.uk/ the night is called Eat Your Own Ears. The time is normal club times i think. cheers matthew
