Abstract

Audacity is a free, open-source, cross-platform audio editor. While it's not Pro-Tools, it does have some great capabilities as a multi-track audio package, as well. This tutorial will show you how to do basic audio editing as well as more advanced mastering, mixing and plugin use. I'll show you how to use what audacity does well and work around what it doesn't. Bring your laptops if you want.

Bio:

Josh Malone is a systems administrator for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and has been in Linux and Unix systems for over 5 years. In his spare time, he's working on building an enormous collection of high-quality mastered Demoscene tunes using as much open-source software as humanly possible.

Abstract

Ruby on Rails is a sophisticated new web application framework written in the Ruby programming language. This talk is an overview of the core components of Rails and how to get a simple application running on Rails in minutes. We also take a look at a real site implemented using Ruby on Rails.

Bio:

Nick Laiacona is an independent software consultant specializing in interactivity design. He has a background in the computer games industry and has been making consumer software for over 12 years. His business website is www.performantsoftware.com.

Abstract

<text type="hype">XQuery is to XML what SQL is to relational databases.</text>

XQuery 1.0 became a W3C candidate recommendation on 3 November 2005. At the next CHUUG meeting, I will talk about XQuery and how the University of Virginia Press uses it to produce digital books. Hopefully, David Sewell, the Editorial and Technical Manager of the Press' Electronic Imprint, will attend as well. If so, the session is guaranteed to be more enlightening.

Bio:

Tim Finney is an XML programmer/analyst at the Electronic Imprint of the UVa Press.

The page for Tim's talk can be found here. A local copy can be found here as well.

Abstract

I'm going to talk about tracking in unixlike environments, and since I'm a linux user I'll focus on one widely available unix tracker, soundtracker, and then also a linux/windows tracker called Skale Tracker. Covered should be what a tracker is, a brief history of significant trackers, which trackers introduced which features, and then once that's done we'll get a copy of soundtracker up and running, mess with that, and then move up to skale tracker. Inside the tracker I'll talk about samples, instruments, patterns, special effects, and how it all fits together. Then we'll write a cute little song or something. After that I can field questions.

Bio:

I've been writing music for 13-14 years but have no formal music training, so everything I do is by-ear. I wrote music for a small handful of free unix games, most notably pydance and a couple other small projects, but also two old dos games, dr. oiram and cybrice. A bunch of sample music in ogg vorbis format is available at http://clickass.org/music/.

Abstract

Josh will be speaking about LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager. LVM offers a flexible approach to disk allocation, allowing volumes to be resized, moved and even span physical disks. In combination with EXT2 resizing tools, filesystems can be re-organized quickly, without the need for time-consuming data migration.

Bio:

Josh Malone has been a FreeBSD and Linux system administrator for three and a half years working in development shops and hosting companies. He attended Virginia Tech's Bradley dept. of Computer Engineering and was vice president of VT's Linux user group. He currently works as a systems administrator NRAO.