This week we started preparations for a project to do recording of the hymns recited every Sunday at our place of worship. The idea is to split the signal from the mixer and feed it to the computer's sound card in addition to the amplifier. From there on, we plan to use something simple as audacity to do the recording (other mixing softwares might be too complicated to use if we aren't there) and then convert them to a compressed format for archiving purposes.

The interesting part till now has been the PC which we are getting. It is an Acer PIV 2.6GHz 512MB desktop with Windows XP installed on it. We decided to give the plan a try without destroying the Windows installed .... yet. As usual the desktop had only one partition on a 160GB HDD. I booted it with a GParted - LiveCD and it gave me a nice little GUI for editing the hard disk partitions. I reduced the windows partition(NTGS) to around 30GB and the rest was for Linux. GParted reduced the windows partition without any trouble and I rebooted the machine in Windows just to make sure.

The machine boots, Windows XP notices something wrong, throws a hiccup and tells me that it needs to check the integrity of the disk. I smiled and let it do its job, didn't find anything wrong and finally it gave me the desktop. From there on, in went the Linux CD, a reboot was in order and the Linux installation started... Windows XP never had a clue what it went through!