How much coffee for 12 cups water in home coffee maker?

14 tablespoons; fill to 12 ‘cup’ line. Here’s how to calculate: For a full home coffeemaker, the lines for ‘cups’ are actually 6oz. cups.   So the 12 cup line is 72 oz or 210ml.

This requires 14.2 tablespoons of coffee grounds. (your coffeemaker is not really completely full at the 12 cup line, I know, so for this example, fill it to the 12 cup line.)

Using this measurement, on a fullish coffe pot, use 1.2 tablespoons for each 6 oz. cup. (in other words, if you want to fill it to the 10 cups line, subtract 2.4 tablespoons from this).

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Can’t write to Windows Partition ntfs in Arch Linux Solution

Even as root, you cannot create a file on the ntfs partition, and you cannot copy a file to it.  Why?

Well install ntfs-3g.

sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g

and when it installs it tells you 2 things that you should not be afraid to do.  The first is run modprobe from the command line.  This command runs instantly with no problems, hassles.  And the 2nd is to modify a conf file.  Don’t worry because as soon as you do the pacman command it tells you very clearly how to do these.

Now when you mount your volume you can

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda7 /home/louie/documents/prog

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How to do a Minimum Install of Ubuntu 10.10 Oneiric

Download the Alternate install of Ubuntu Desktop 11.10 to a CD. Then start the system with that CD, select F4 for modes, and select command line install then proceed with the install and answer all the questions (do a normal install with that CD).  It won’t install any graphical stuff even though you think it will.

• $sudo apt-get update
• $sudo apt-get upgrade

Now choose option 1 or option 2 but not both (I like xvt better than mrxvt):

1. $sudo aptitude -y install xserver-xorg-core xinit menu menu-xdg jwm fluxbox alsa-utils mrxvt gdebi-core synaptic logrotate localepurge
2. $sudo apt-get install xorg xterm wdm icewm menu epiphany-browser –no-install-recommends

now you can do ‘sudo service wdm start’ or ‘sudo service gdm start’ or ‘startx’

AV Linux 5.02 Review. My First Impressions From A Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Diehard

Summary: I review AV Linux 5.02, for sound professionals: default sound settings are disappointing.

Pros:

• User interface,  LXDE, though not gnome, unity or KDE is very intuitive and AV Linux did a thoughtful job with the menus set up nicely.
• A very pleasant array of sound software, complete with all kinds of niceties to play with your sound hardware and software downloads.
• MP3s play immediatedly through media player with jack running
• http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html AV Linux web site very good first impression
• qjackctl ran immediately error-free
• The live dvd runs first time with no errors.

Cons:

• A silly stream of linux geek stuff spews on the screen when both the dvd starts and when you finally install the system.  Why are distros still showing these (programmer debug) messages?
• Installing reformats the destination drive‘s partition, and doesn’t even ask you to confirm that this is what you wanted.
• Installing very shockingly trashes my boot partition, and doesn’t allow me access to my ubuntu installation.  Of course I had to reinstall grub because this thing bizarrely installed what I assume is grub 1 when booting, it doesn’t show any other installations.
• Installation asks you too many linux geek questions that really require you to have done an installation of linux before.  Why is this?  Isn’t this supposed to be for audio pros, and not geeks?  If you say it’s a bug in the software which created the install, that’s not sufficient.  We are looking at the whole package here, so I see this as a problem with AV Linux.
• The installation asks you where to install your swap partition, and only allows you to pick sda, and then it scares the heck out of you by telling you that it is currently formatting the disk.  So you fear that all your partitions have just been trashed.
• Very first thing after I started jack already issued a warning:  fluidsynth:   I always have its messages open, and it showed a warning:  fluidsynth: warning: Jack sample rate mismatch, expect tuning issues (synth.sample-rate=44100, jackd=48000)
• Rosegarden when then started connecting to general midi did not create sounds.  Isn’t the idea of a pre-packaged distro to ensure everything “just works” ?
• The command line doesn’t seem to recognize ANY  of the very first things I typed.  This is a Debian distro, and presumably this is bash, so why not?:
•     1  gparted
  2  yum
  3  man fdisk
  4  fdisk -l sda
  5  parted
  6  pmidi
  7  apt-cache search pmidi
• Iceweasel‘s second starting up produced by itself a jump to this page: http://www.downloadhelper.net/update.php?from=4.9.5&to=4.9.7  That’s pretty shocking, considering the distro states it doesn’t nag you to upgrade anything.
• vkeybd doesn’t run from command line, and doesn’t seem to be in the menu
• horribly, there is an icon for every single window of Rosegarden at the bottom of the screen, cluttering up my ability to switch between programs.

All in all, I’m going back to Ubuntu 11.10 even with Unity.  (I’m force-feeding myself Unity just to prove to myself that it’s not an unreasonable interface).  I’m going back for this reason:  I installed AV Linux for basically one reason: so that I would have to stop tweaking and re-starting jackd and qsynth just to get midi to make sound through Rosegarden and Muse.  That’s the reason.  AV Linux failed to accomplish this goal.