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.

Automator workflows allow you to take data from one action (Finder menu, print spool, etc) and use it somewhere else. So, here’s a simple way to add a context menu to your Finder so as to upload files you might use, by scp, to wherever you keep your stash.

Score is available here (.pdf, 90kB) Parts (audio) For own rehearsal. Apologies for these being done with MIDI… All parts Your browser does not support the audio element. Soprano Your browser does not support the audio element.

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).

Update I don’t actually use AWB any more, I use Hugo. However, I’ve left this here in case anyone is still using AWB. This site now uses AWB along with AsciiDoc to manage the site content.

mrmr is a project which enables the use of OSC using an iOS-based client such as the iPhone, iPod touch or the iPad. Its functionality extends to integrate with on-board controls such as the accelerometer, which may be used in conjunction with other inputs in live performance.

Here’s a little something I wrote to take the checksums from incoming data on a network and turn these into useful data in Pd-extended. We communicate the data via the OSC (OpenSoundControl) protocol.

Introduction nginx (pronounced Engine X) is super-quick. Really, really super quick. I came to it having used Apache for years, ending up deciding against LightHTTPd (memory leaks) and then eventually deciding to settle with the use of nginx due to its stability and speed.

Introduction Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list as follows: Where in my original sources.list I have: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main Edit this so at the end of each line it reads

Introduction Saslauthd is inherently difficult to use with the Debian distribution of Postfix, since Postfix is by default run chrooted. Using Saslauthd with Postfix requires a bit more tweaking than usual, especially if you wish to run it with Postfix chrooted.