I've been trying to entice Aaron (the former prez) to recapitulate his great contributions of talks on Linux audio, but have not so far succeeded. His wife keeps pulling rank on me. To the end of "the show must go on", This last meeting featured John Lightsey's fantastic talk on looking at one's own usage stats - namely looking into one's command history to see what one uses the most of. His command history was revealing. Everything from vi to fakeroot was discussed. But I also contributed a few comments on some bath products I ordered from thinkgeek.com, as well as describing three out of four successful attempts to load Audacity, the open source editing suite. OpenSuse confused me, but I had good luck with OSX, XP and Linux Mint (a Debian variant).
That brings me to next week. If Russell Adams can't make it to do his pre-prepared presentation (is that recumbently redundant?) I should be able to demonstrate this:
http://www.ion-audio.com/ionttusb05
I should be able to use Audacity on Linux to record both from microphone and from the Ion turntable before a live audience in two weeks. Wish me luck. May 24th is the date (if Russell is unavailable) and otherwise will be the second Saturday (first HLUG meeting) of next month (June 14).
More to come...
