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The CCRMA User Group aims to present short practical presentations by expert users of tools available at CCRMA in hopes of enhancing the community research and creative experience.

CUG will be held each Tuesday: noon - 12:50.

October 23, 2007 : Ardour Intro, Advanced Jack, JMess, Process Management

This weeks CCRMA User Group presentation will feature these topics:

12:00-12:15 : Process Management in Linux, an Introduction to these commands: ps, top, kill, killall, kill -9, and the GNOME System Monitor : Carr

12:15-12:30 : Advanced Jack : Fernando

12:30-12:35 : JMess : Juan Pablo

12:35-12:50 : Ardour Intro Toot: Mic In : Miriam

System Monitor

October 9, 2007 : "You don't know Jack!"

This weeks CCRMA User Group presentation will feature two main topics:

1) A more in-depth look at the architecture and configuration of Jack and Qjackctl by Fernando.

He'll give us an overview of the Jack API and how it relates to the operating system kernel and audio applications. He'll also talk about optimizing Jack settings both in Qjackctl and with the command line. Take a look here for more info:

Jack block diagram:

http://jackaudio.org/files/JACK-Diagram-screensize.png

Documentation:

http://jackaudio.org/documentation

Homepage:

http://jackaudio.org

2) GNOME Desktop Tweaks

- Configuring your panel with application start icons and monitoring applets: CPU and network monitoring.

- Configuring and using 'Workspaces' and workspace switching

- Screensaver, mouse, keyboard and theme tweaks.

3) bonus: using FTP at CCRMA (gFTP and Fetch)