Dev

screen & vim defaults

Only posting these here because I keep copying these defaults between systems; it’s about high time I come up with a better way of syncing all my settings across boxes though …

OSC-based audience participation

This was an installation project I did. A telephone number was projected on the wall and audience members would dial it. The Asterisk PBX I was running and gave an Interactive Voice Prompt to the person on the phone.

SSH and Mosh on Debian

Introduction I run Debian Squeeze with OpenSSH, sitting behind Shorewall. I access my systems using OS X’s SSH client. I also use MacPorts. This simple guide will show you how to quickly get up and running with Mosh.

Using Webmin and Usermin with nginx

A few of my users have expressed annoyance at not being able to change passwords very easily. I experimented with using LDAP for user administration last year, but half the issue with that was getting it to work along my lookups for various users’ chroots.

Getting SCORE running with DOSBox and OS X

SCORE is a music engraving tool. Simply speaking there are two different orientations of music notation software. Firstly there are formatters. LilyPond is a good example of a pure formatter. It works like a secretary you dictate a letter and she formats it for you in her own “handwriting” (only that music is much more difficult to handle than text).