Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.gcicommunications!news.posted.gcicommunications.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:00:02 -0500 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: White Noise Software For Linux References: <0eb566bb-5d54-47fd-b24a-53b85abda9ed@googlegroups.com> <87bnqar2p0.fld@barrow.com> From: floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson) Organization: __________ Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:59:57 -0800 Message-ID: <87zjdroxci.fld@barrow.com> User-Agent: gnus 5.10.6/XEmacs 21.4.15/Linux 2.6.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:DQPP+8O7yzCI+KbFm1GuwRIrfbg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 46 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.237.125.254 X-Trace: sv3-sryPm5Jkh1fxtn1N3upQCiSc9i6PnNeefZ7E1nzGWP1xd4y0bmel02qk527ZXe1FUlQAlw/cGh9hnsQ!OIgJyZG3v/xvBCVkiRfMReHCU19A3t0I7SgyfPXIH1lAtx/iC4Ql2AUL+PfFiANdAmb9MXOQ X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2970 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:12147 William Unruh wrote: >On 2014-09-20, Floyd L. Davidson wrote: >> The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>On 20/09/14 07:39, William Unruh wrote: >>>> On 2014-09-19, beforewisdom@gmail.com wrote: >>>>> I'm running Linux Mint 17. >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone recommend any white noise software that is controlled by a GUI? >>>> >>>> Wha is White noise sofware tha is controlled by a gui? White noise has >>>> only one controllable parameter and that is ampliude, and tha is >>>> conrollable by the volume control. >>>> I think you need o be a bit less elliptical. >>>Thnks for sayung that. saved me the trouble >> >> White noise is not restricted to just one controllable parameter. >> >> Distribution is controllable, hence it might be Gaussian or Poisson, or >> something else. > >Then it is not white noise. It may be noise, but white noise has a very >particular definition Look it up though, and you'll find "Gaussian White Noise"... and other distributions too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise#Statistical_properties >> It is also always bandwidth limited, which is controllable too. > >Again, not white noise. It is impossible to have a signal that is not bandwidth limited. Real life just doesn't work that way. >White noise is noise such that at each instant >of time, the noise is uncorrelated with that at the next instant of >time. And at that instant of time it is gaussian. Gaussian does not imply white noise nor does white noise imply Gaussian. >Anyway the OP has still not told us what he wants. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com