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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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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• $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’

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.

First of all Rosegarden is the hardest thing to get running, so I’ll start with the basics of getting midi to work.  Midi sounds go through ports with names such as 128,0 and 14:0

You can view these ports by downloading pmidi.  Do that now.  (It’s not optional in this tutorial).

• sudo apt-get install pmidi

Now to view them, enter the following command

• $ pmidi -l

Port     Client name                       Port name
14:0     Midi Through                      Midi Through Port-0
128:0     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 0
128:1     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 1
128:2     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 2
128:3     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 3

My system has a midi synthesizer that starts up at boot time and remains resident, using ports 128:0 to 128:3.  Chances are, you will just have 14:0 showing, but if you have ports with numbers 128:0, or 129:0 or 130:0, it indicates there is a synthesizer present.  Since I have timidity installed (please don’t install it if you don’t have it already, and I can play a midi file with $ timidity alleycat.mid

If you have available ports, we can use pmidi using a port number to play a midi file (chances are you don’t, so this command will not work for you yet, but remember it):

• $pmidi -p 128:0 alleycat.mid

You can also run it to check the other ports to see if they work:

• $pmidi -p 128:1  alleycat.mid

This is important, because pmidi allows you to access the specific port by name (well by number).  In this way, we can check other sound products that generate sound.   If you can get sound using the above steps, you have a synthesizer running.

Fluidsynth is the next thing we shall test, and it has a nice GUI front-end called QSynth.  So start up QSynth (from the menus) and have a look at the ports

• $ pmidi -l

Port     Client name                       Port name
14:0     Midi Through                      Midi Through Port-0
128:0     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 0
128:1     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 1
128:2     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 2
128:3     TiMidity                          TiMidity port 3
129:0     FLUID Synth (3702)                Synth input port (3702:0)

On my system, I have an extra port: 129:0.  If you do not have an extra port, click on the setup button of qsynth, and in the audio tab, change the Audio Driver to alsa, and in the Midi tab, change the midi driver to alsa_seq.  Clicking OK will cause qsynth to restart.  After it restarts, check to see if you have an additional port again.

Once you get the extra port, try out the new port:

$ pmidi -p 129:0  alleycat.mid

Notice the difference in sound.  If you have no sound (which you probably do not if you never modified  qsynth before), you must load a sound font into qsynth.  Modify the setup of qsynth, in the Soundfonts tab, open up /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2

“Ordinary houses were lighted with candles, then with oil, then with gas and afterward with electricity. If Pembroke was the first city to use electricity for street lighting (October 8, 1884), Ottawa was a close second, as on November 4 following, the City authorized the “Royal Electric Light Co. to produce light by electricity” and early in 1885, this company offered the city to install 165 arc light lamps at $80. each per year. To compete with the above mentioned firm, an Ottawa Organization, the Ottawa Electric Light Co.,(footnote:the Ottawa Electric Light Co., and the Chaudière Electric Co., incoroporated in 1887, amalgamated with Standard Electric Co. and took the name of Ottawa Electric Co. which became Ottawa Light, Heat & Power Co.) was hurridly formed and was granted the contract. In 1894, the city established for its own use, a lighting plant costin $250,000 and eleven year after, bought the Consumer’s Electric Company, before it amalgamated with the Ottawa Electric Company. These two companies had been engaged in a war of rates since the incorporation of the Consumers’ in 1901, and early in 1905, there were indications that they might come together to form a monopoly. Realizing this situation, the Corporation wisely and without hesitation, acquired the rights of the latter company for the sum of $200.000(sic) on May 17, by virtue of a certain clause which the City had inserted into the Consumers’ Electric Company’s Charter. Since that date, the City successfully sells power to citizen consumers under the name of Municipal Electric Department which was changed, in 1915, to Ottawa Hydro-Electric Commission.
“At first the Municipal Electric Department was administered by a City Council Committee, as any other municipal department but its accounts were kept separately. When the Board of Control was organized, in 1907, it tookover this administration which, 8 years later, was transferred to 3 commissioners.

(my note: the real names that I know about were probably Standard Electric Company of Ottawa (Limited), Ottawa Hydro Electric Commission, Chaudière Electric Light and Power Company (perhaps without the accent).

1. Unicef states that a child dies from malnutrition every six minutes (250 a day) in Somalia. (The Sun)
2. 2011 Horn of Africa famine: The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia July 22nd. (Al Jazeera)
3. By July 23, tens of thousands have already died.
4. People are fleeing Somaila in search for food especially to Kenya and Ethiopia. Dadaab, Kenya currently hosts at least 440,000 people in three refugee camps, the largest refugee camp in the world!  They are also fleeing  al-Shabab areas and heading to Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.   Loss of livestock due to drought has caused many to lose their livelihoods and go searching for food. 25 percent of Somalia’s 7.5 million people are displaced (BBC).  3,500 people a day are fleeing Somalia. In June alone, 68,000 Somalis arrived in Kenya and 54,000 in Ethiopia searching for food and livelihood and the UN records indicate that 1,700 and 1,300 Somalis are arriving daily in Ethiopia and Kenya respectively. (Al Jazeera)  More than 130,000 Somalian refugees have left the country for Ethiopia and Kenya in the first six months of 2011 — more than 50,000 of these in June alone, according to the UN.    (CBC news).  The Dollo Ado refugee camp in Ethiopia has nearly 114, 500 Somali refugees, with more than 18,000 arriving in July.  (CTV News)
5. Somalia‘s Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali accuses al-Shabab of preventing people from leaving the region in search of food as central government condemns militants from blocking aid workers. (Voice of America)
   The al-Shabaab Islamist militant group in Somalia says a ban on aid groups working in parts of the country remains. (Al Jazeera)
6. The organization that would usually help, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is banned by al-Shabab from aiding 2.2 million.  The Red Cross’s ICRC on July 24 have been able to reach 24,000 of these with aid distributing 400 tons to southern Gedo.  Medecins Sans Frontiers, are still working in al-Shabab territory. (BBC)  The UN refugee agency has distributed aid to 90,000 people in the capital Mogadishu and in southwest Somalia in recent days (CBC news)
7. The WFP estimates that 11.3 million people across east Africa urgently need food aid and medical supplies.  The UN says it needs $300 million in the next two months to prevent the famine from spreading to all eight regions of southern Somalia, and another $1.6 billion to sustain “essential programs” in the region.  (CBC news)
8. Britain has given about $146 million in aid, the United States has so far offered an additional $28 million on top of the $431 million in assistance already given this year,  Canada has offered an additional $50 million on top of the 22 million already donated, Spain $10 million, Germany $8.5 million and the European Union $8 million.   (CTV News) and (CTV News).  The World Bank has promised $500 million in aid on July 25. (CBC News)
9. Drought, conflict and high food prices are problems.
10. Somalia has 9,200 African Union peacekeepers, all of them based in Mogadishu.(CBC News)

Dadaab Refugee Camp. Huge isn't it?

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