Hi, CPK Smithies recommends MuseScore for creating sheet music. He had some Satie on display and was right, it was _Trois Gnossiennes_ I was trying to recall. http://musescore.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnossiennes#Trois_Gnossiennes
Paul was playing with PsychoSynth and in skilled hands it can set one's teeth on edge, even in a noisy pub. :-) It's inspired by that Reactable table mentioned here years ago. Move components about, e.g. sine-wave generator, and wire them up to the speaker, all in 3D graphics. http://www.psychosynth.com That reminded me of the Pure Data synth mentioned by Natalie in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data#mediaviewer/File:Pd_example_3.svg Does anyone know of a simple FLOSS asset management software, e.g. suitable for tracking an organisation's IT equipment, chairs, etc. Anything that isn't bolted down. To be used by volunteers and allow an annual audit. I've had a bit of a Google for Clive, but much seems too corporate and large scale. All that's wanted is a step up from a spreadsheet. Tim's Squeezebox is no longer supported by Logitech, who liked the product so much they bought the company. But it might continue its usefulness by supporting UPnP and being fed data by Kodi. That's the new name for XBMC, the XBox Media Centre, as it's been more than just XBox for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox_%28network_music_player%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_%28software%29 Tim was needing better backups at home. Since the meeting, he has got an HP ProLiant Microserver, like John Caryle-Clarke before him. With a couple of software-RAID hard drives, it's going to be the new home backup server, and media server too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProLiant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdadm Alternatives to RAID with ext4 on top are filesystems that have that or similar capability built in. ZFS, originally by Sun for Solaris, is one, and Btrfs (butter-FS), another. Both do volume management, e.g. handle multiple devices. LVM had to be used to get this in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_%28Linux%29 Methods of backing up meant these got a mention... "Duplicity is a software suite that provides encrypted, digitally signed, versioned, remote backup of files requiring little of the remote server" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicity_%28software%29 "Camlistore (Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed Storage) is a personal data storage system with the goal of providing a backup for social content spanning a lifetime" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camlistore "Online backups for the truly paranoid." Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month ($0.25 / GB-month) Bandwidth: 250 picodollars / byte ($0.25 / GB) http://www.tarsnap.com/ Amazon's Glacier stores your data for the long term assuming you won't want to access it often. "Storage costs are a consistent $0.01 per gigabyte per month" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Glacier Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-02-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
