Summer Vibes

By Scott Petersen | August 13, 2025

It’s been a busy Summer for me. May and June were spent packing up my lab (new carpet!), finishing a paper for ICMC and then preparing to teach Summer Session. July was entirely absorbed with teaching (CPSC S134.) Now I am somehow already into week 2 of August and staring at the start of the school year in two weeks! I’m not ready.

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A New Computer

By Scott Petersen | July 29, 2024

I probably set up and configure (or reconfigure) at least ~5 computers a year for professional audio. A few years back I started configuring some machines to use Arch while continuing to mainly setup and use/support KDE Neon. The two Linux OSes share a lot (and can be functionally equivalent), but differ quite a bit…

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Pipewire and JACK on Arch Linux

By Scott Petersen | May 27, 2022

This is a quick post to talk about my recent experience configuring Pipewire and JACK on Arch Linux. Now, I’m not an Arch adherent and maybe you aren’t either. That’s fine because I’ll talk about the minimal install and the packages that are required to get Pipewire and JACK working. This will not cover moving…

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