On Tuesday 14 September 2004 03:32 am, tim hall wrote: > Last Saturday 11 September 2004 21:41, Russell Hanaghan was like: > > 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. Point taken. > > 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
