From jim at well.com Mon Nov 15 13:47:50 2010 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:47:50 -0800 Subject: [buug] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, November 18, 2010: Embedding Python as a Realtime Audio Scripting Engine Message-ID: <1289857670.1991.168.camel@jim-laptop> This meeting's talk is "Embedding Python as a Realtime Audio Scripting Engine" by Patrick Stinson Topics include * separation and communication between the application and the scripting engine * why Python is "safe" for audio work, including empirical performance metrics and caveats related to multithreaded processing as p performance requirements increase. I will share my experiences using the standard CPython implementation to research and develop a state-of-the-art scripting engine for the Play commercial sampling engine Speaker: Patrick Stinson Patrick Stinson has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of London and currently lives in the North Lake Tahoe area. He started out working with CPython and Zope/Plone in his home town of Anchorage, Alaska and has most recently developed the user interface and scripting engine for the Hollywood-Based "Play" music platform. Play is a commercial audio engine intended for building software musical instruments. It runs in popular audio plugin formats, and provides a scripting engine that allows studio musicians to create complex musical effects and sequencing behavior. It uses Qt for the GUI, juce for audio support, and python for the scripting engine. LINKS: Find more information here: http://www.soundsonline.com/ ......................................... Meetings usually start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: none. LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:35 PM ................ Tonight's Newbie Nugget: none. ..... 7:35 PM to 8:25 PM (or so) ................ The talk: Embedding Python as a Realtime Audio Scripting Engine ..... 8:25 PM to 8:55 PM (or so) ................ Questions and Answers ..... 8:55 PM to 9:30 PM (or so) ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues, hiring, events, and other topics. Random Access follows people immediately to allow follow up on the announcements and other interests. From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Nov 15 14:22:12 2010 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:22:12 -0800 Subject: [buug] BALUG meeting TOMORROW Tu 2010-11-16: Mark Terranova on Fedora (14), etc.; & other BALUG news Message-ID: <20101115142212.20566mc8pkpqb340@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG meeting TOMORROW Tu 2010-11-16: Mark Terranova on Fedora (14), etc.; & other BALUG news In this issue (details further below): 2010-11-16 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu: Mark Terranova on Fedora (14), etc. Linux/Ubuntu CDs ------------------------------ Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-11-16 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-11-16 meeting, we're proud to present: Mark Terranova on Fedora[1] (14), etc. Mark Terranova will be giving a talk about Fedora and the recently (2010-11-02) released Fedora 14. He will also speak some about his experiences with Local tech stuff. Mark Terranova is a "West Coast Community-Developed-Software guy". Mark has regularly taught many types of computer classes specializing in the benefits of Linux and Cross-Platform Software. He has been involved with spreading Linux for a while. He has helped organize Linux Release Parties and other tech events that make it fun - using beer, BBQ, and other ways to create a fun community. He has spent much time in Portland, Oregon working with FreeGeek.org[2]. Their unique style helped him learn how to involve more people in computing. This knowledge has helped him in his role as co-founder of Gidget Kitchen[3] (GK). "Gidget Kitchen donates computers, generally using Ubuntu, to groups and individuals." GK strives to make modern technology simple, empowering, and easy for everyone to understand. The only requirement is the ability to "play well with others." Mark blames his interest in technical things and electronics on his father Michael. "He gave me a Commodore 64 and helped me get my amateur radio license (N6TBD) at an early age". 1. http://fedoraproject.org/ 2. http://www.freegeek.org/ 3. http://www.gidgetkitchen.org/ See also a bit further below for some additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (CDs, etc.) So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and dining arrangements and such. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 2010-11-16 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner). Additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (at least the following): We'll have various Linux/Ubuntu/Fedora CDs available at the 2010-11-16 BALUG meeting (and likely also future meetings as long as our supply lasts/continues), most notably presently including: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Desktop CD PC (Intel x86) i386 (also at least some Fedora, Knoppix, and other Ubuntu variants presently) Thanks to Grant Bowman and the Ubuntu California Team and others for getting CDs to us. ------------------------------ Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org ------------------------------ http://www.balug.org/ From khogoboom at gmail.com Sat Nov 27 07:49:54 2010 From: khogoboom at gmail.com (Karen Hogoboom) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:49:54 -0800 Subject: [buug] hello Message-ID: Hi Buug, I'd like to introduce myself and warn you--I have just joined your mailing list and am thinking I will attend the Thursday meeting. :-) Geekfactorwise, "I *am* technical!", but, how can I say this, I was raised backwards. I was born in Berkeley, but not raised here. I was schooled in Berkeley but did not live here--Malcolm X, Longfellow, Magic Mountain, Maybeck, UCB (BA Computer Science '98) I am not anti-social, but do not make friends easily I was not popular in highschool My first boyfriend repairs air conditioners My second contender, who I LJBF'd ended up working at JPL My ex-husband works at "the lab" but not ours I was not raised "in the Berkeley network" I worked at Sybase for awhile I do not know anyone by their SCA names I might know some of the people you know--Allen, Elton, Larry, Cynthia, Cecily, Jym, at least two Bobs and two Marks. I am female, so I don't "know my stuff" that depth-first-way that guys do. I'm a breadth-firster I have only played DnD a few times I am not powerless over WoW, and I will be hitting the job search hard any day now What drives me to you is that I finally wiped my XP machine and put FreeBSD on it and realized I need to understand the history of X better. I have been, by my own bad choices, fate and bad breeding, working in the Microsoft world for most of my career. Do I want gnome or kde when I don't even want to *emulate* MS on this machine? Karen -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlhogoboom http://www.facebook.com/klhogoboom http://boomtownbits.livejournal.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From itz at buug.org Sat Nov 27 09:29:33 2010 From: itz at buug.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:29:33 -0800 Subject: [buug] hello In-Reply-To: (Karen Hogoboom's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:49:54 -0800") References: Message-ID: <877hfyzncy.fsf@matica.localdomain> Karen> Do I want gnome or kde when I don't even want to *emulate* MS on Karen> this machine? No. Get a well-configurable window manager (examples: sawfish, windowmaker or openbox). Don't install stuff until you need it. You should understand (on a high level) what each line in the output of ps does. When you don't, you know you're nearing MS territory :-) -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. From rick at linuxmafia.com Mon Nov 29 19:05:12 2010 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:05:12 -0800 Subject: [buug] hello In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20101130030512.GX9659@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Karen Hogoboom (khogoboom at gmail.com): > Geekfactorwise, "I *am* technical!", but, how can I say this, I was raised backwards. Backwards can get you to useful places almost as well as forwards. ;-> > What drives me to you is that I finally wiped my XP machine and put FreeBSD > on it and realized I need to understand the history of X better. Just to be clear, when you say 'understand the history of X better', are you referring to the X11 graphics system, commonly known as X? It might be just me, but I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're driving at, and so just want to make sure. > I have been, by my own bad choices, fate and bad breeding, working in > the Microsoft world for most of my career. Do I want gnome or kde > when I don't even want to *emulate* MS on this machine? Both the GNOME and KDE 'desktop environments' do have a tendency, liked by some and disliked by others, of borrowing from the aesthetics of popular proprietary OSes. However, and I'm sure you anticipated this answer, what you logically want depends on what's important to you. Please be aware that you can elect to run no 'desktop environment' whatsoever, instead sticking to the old-school model of just having a regular X11 window manager (but not running the X session manager and 'desktop' services characteristic of the four most common desktop environments: GNOME, KDE, XFCE4, LXDE). You can compare the typical appearance of various window managers and several 'desktop environments' via screenshots and information links at Matt Chapman's site, http://xwinman.org/ . Hope that helps! From khogoboom at gmail.com Tue Nov 30 02:03:54 2010 From: khogoboom at gmail.com (Karen Hogoboom) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:03:54 -0800 Subject: [buug] hello In-Reply-To: <20101130030512.GX9659@linuxmafia.com> References: <20101130030512.GX9659@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Karen Hogoboom (khogoboom at gmail.com): > > > Geekfactorwise, "I *am* technical!", but, how can I say this, I was > raised > backwards. > > Backwards can get you to useful places almost as well as forwards. ;-> > Thank you. Berkeleyfactorwise, I think the term my mother would have used to describe how she set up my life was a proof of the tabula rasa concept, but I forgot what I read about tabula rasa in high school. I was raised entirely with nature, only a tiny bit of nurture. B. 1964, I should mention. > What drives me to you is that I finally wiped my XP machine and put FreeBSD > on it and realized I need to understand the history of X better. Just to be clear, when you say 'understand the history of X better', are > you referring to the X11 graphics system, commonly known as X? It might > be just me, but I'm not 100% sure I understand what you're driving at, > and so just want to make sure. > > You raise a good question. I had seen, I think on Wiki, that some find the term X Windows offensive. I did mean the computer terminal windowing system developed at Xerox Parc. However, now that you mention it, for some reason, I never remember whether XX is what refers to women's chromosomes or mens. So you may be 100% correct in asking this question. > > > I have been, by my own bad choices, fate and bad breeding, working in > > the Microsoft world for most of my career. Do I want gnome or kde > > when I don't even want to *emulate* MS on this machine? > > Both the GNOME and KDE 'desktop environments' do have a tendency, liked > by some and disliked by others, of borrowing from the aesthetics of > popular proprietary OSes. However, and I'm sure you anticipated this > answer, what you logically want depends on what's important to you. > I decided I wanted to put FreeBSD on my Dell to overwrite Windows XP because I was craving a black screen with white letters. > Please be aware that you can elect to run no 'desktop environment' > whatsoever, instead sticking to the old-school model of just having a > regular X11 window manager (but not running the X session manager and > 'desktop' services characteristic of the four most common desktop > environments: GNOME, KDE, XFCE4, LXDE). > I did not choose to install the X session manager so far. I do have in my apartment one Linux notebook, one FreeBSD PC-style computer, one Compaq (HP) laptop with whatever my step-sister who works at Microsoft allowed to ship, and one Compaq PC-style computer with Windows 98. > > You can compare the typical appearance of various window managers and > several 'desktop environments' via screenshots and information links at > Matt Chapman's site, http://xwinman.org/ . Hope that helps! > > _______________________________________________ > Buug mailing list > Buug at weak.org > http://www.weak.org/mailman/listinfo/buug > -- -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlhogoboom http://www.facebook.com/klhogoboom http://boomtownbits.livejournal.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From itz at buug.org Tue Nov 30 08:53:35 2010 From: itz at buug.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:53:35 -0800 Subject: [buug] hello In-Reply-To: (Karen Hogoboom's message of "Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:03:54 -0800") References: <20101130030512.GX9659@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <87lj4ada7k.fsf@matica.localdomain> >>>>> "Karen" == Karen Hogoboom writes: Karen> You raise a good question. I had seen, I think on Wiki, that Karen> some find the term X Windows offensive. I did mean the computer Karen> terminal windowing system developed at Xerox Parc. However, now Karen> that you mention it, for some reason, I never remember whether XX Karen> is what refers to women's chromosomes or mens. So you may be Karen> 100% correct in asking this question. The correct name is actualy "X Window" (without the "s"). Perhaps that was the offensive part. Rick> You can compare the typical appearance of various window managers Rick> and several 'desktop environments' via screenshots and information Rick> links at Matt Chapman's site, http://xwinman.org/ . Hope that Rick> helps! There is also The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix: http://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. From rick at linuxmafia.com Tue Nov 30 11:55:28 2010 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:55:28 -0800 Subject: [buug] hello In-Reply-To: References: <20101130030512.GX9659@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20101130195528.GI21203@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Karen Hogoboom (khogoboom at gmail.com): > I decided I wanted to put FreeBSD on my Dell to overwrite Windows XP because > I was craving a black screen with white letters. You _can_ configure FreeBSD not launch X11 by default, and end its startup process at a text-mode login screen.[1] Thereafter, users who've logged in can either remain at a non-graphical virtual console prompt, or can run the script 'startx' to launch X11 with the user's choice of window manager. It's handy to have X11 at one's disposal, and running on the local device, even if you use X11 almost exclusively to provide xterms and a Web browser. [1] This is of course the normal configuration for most server-role machines. From rick at linuxmafia.com Tue Nov 30 12:06:21 2010 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:06:21 -0800 Subject: [buug] hello In-Reply-To: <87lj4ada7k.fsf@matica.localdomain> References: <20101130030512.GX9659@linuxmafia.com> <87lj4ada7k.fsf@matica.localdomain> Message-ID: <20101130200621.GJ21203@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Ian Zimmerman (itz at buug.org): > There is also The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix: > http://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html For convenience: Both pages are always re-findable via the 'Admin' category of my Linuxmafia.com Knowledgebase: http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Admin From itz at buug.org Tue Nov 30 12:09:26 2010 From: itz at buug.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:09:26 -0800 Subject: [buug] hello In-Reply-To: <20101130195528.GI21203@linuxmafia.com> (Rick Moen's message of "Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:55:28 -0800") References: <20101130030512.GX9659@linuxmafia.com> <20101130195528.GI21203@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <87ipzeh8uh.fsf@matica.localdomain> Rick> You _can_ configure FreeBSD not launch X11 by default, and end its Rick> startup process at a text-mode login screen.[1] Thereafter, users Rick> who've logged in can either remain at a non-graphical virtual Rick> console prompt, or can run the script 'startx' to launch X11 with Rick> the user's choice of window manager. Rick> It's handy to have X11 at one's disposal, and running on the local Rick> device, even if you use X11 almost exclusively to provide xterms Rick> and a Web browser. Or you can do what AB of California Digital used to do: configure your X to start with a full-screen xterm with a consoleish font :) -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating.