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- Bread Machine Brioche
- Comparing Lilypond and Petrucci
- Timeline of Bonnie's death
- Reading PDF's on the N810
- Lilypond vs Petrucci, Round II
- Report on the May 26 meeting
- Wednesday at the Boston Early Music Festival
- Primary Care Providers and the death of Bonnie Rogers
- Why not to use AOL
- Steroid inhalers and voice range
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Another opinion on Ubuntu 9.10
I reported on my experience with the October release (9.10, Karmic Koala) of ubuntu linux. The respected hardware site Tom's Hardware has benchmarks relative to 9.04. If you don't have time to read the whole article, the conclusion is that this time the Ubuntu developers bit off more than they could chew in 6 months, [...]
Cutting a program
When I ran through the program I had drafted for the December 17 concert, I found it took me 55 minutes to play. That's with playing everything roughly the right number of times through, but without the 2 pieces I wasn't playing, and without doing any patter between pieces. Since we'd like the actual performance [...]
Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade
This is another hot topic on the blogs and forums that discuss such things. See the slashdot discussion for examples. The reason people use the Ubuntu flavor of Linux is that it consistently gives you an upgrade every 6 months, so you don't have to be way behind the new, improved versions of programs, but [...]
Borrowing ebooks from the library
The Minuteman Library Network, to which my local public library, the Cambridge Public Library belongs, has just started loaning out electronic media, including ebooks. They have a really good record on computerizing the loan of dead tree books. Their whole catalog is online, and everyone who has a library card at any member library can [...]
More ebook sloppiness
I never minded stuff like this when the ebooks I was reading were being produced by volunteer labor, but now that I'm paying real money for them, it really irritates me. I'm reading The Confusion, volume 2 of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, which I purchased from fictionwise.com. The chapter I'm reading takes place [...]
Truce in the browser wars (on my machine, anyway)
I wrote previously about my efforts to find a browser to replace Firefox 3.0, which has major memory leaks and takes over the sound system. I seem to have settled on Firefox 3.5 for the moment. I still like the interface on chromium-browser from google, but the linux version was too incomplete, and so I [...]
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MythTV discussion
I went to a Boston Linux and Unix Users Group (BLU) meeting last night to hear a talk on MythTV by one of its developers (Jarod Wilson who works for Redhat). Some points of interest about real world MythTV use: Recording from a cable box is more haphazard than you would wish -- the most [...]
Backing Up
I just upgraded my computer hardware, so I'm typing this on a shiny new computer with 4 cpu's, a terrabyte of hard drive, and 8 Gigs of memory. Getting all the stuff from the old computer to this one is still harder than it should be, but is easier when you upgrade while the old [...]
Using a different browser
Until the recent urge to upgrade my computing environment, I was using firefox as my main browser. This was not because it's a particularly good program, but because it has managed to get enough market share away from Internet Explorer that the people who design websites test on it. There are very few websites, except [...]
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