The Amazon MP3 Music Service has just been released. It is in beta and works quite well. To use it you must agree to the terms of service. You then are allowed to download the client software which is used to retrieve purchased music from Amazon’s servers. Client software is available for both Mac and PC and has been promised for Linux sometime in the future. Linux users can download single items in the interim.
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Tags: amazon, mp3, review, service, software
This weekend I finally got a chance to take the music notation software LilyPond for a spin. I had heard of the open source project and was anxious to try it out. As a former Finale and Sibelius user I must admit to being a bit skeptical about its capabilities. I was pleasantly surprised to find the documentation and examples on the website helpful in getting started. For my first attempt with the software I kept it simple. Since my eight-year-old son is now taking piano lessons, I decided to compose a simple Minuet in the Baroque style. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: composing, lilypond, Music, notation, notation software, review, software, textmate
Bare Bones Software, authors of BBEdit and TextWrangler, has a wonderful application that helps you to organize your information called Yojimbo. It can archive complete web pages, create bookmarks, add notes, create PDFs from almost anything, create secure areas, is taggable, searchable, and is now accessible via the web. The web version, Webjimbo, allows you to access your computers Yojimbo database from anywhere you happen to be.
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Tags: access, iPhone, product, review, yojimbo
Posted by: Jeff Owens in Linux
So lets setup the final piece of the puzzle so we can install some packages and start coding already. If you've been following along (Part Two), we are now ready to setup the shorewall firewall. This will lock down all ports we aren't using, both tcp and udp. Go ahead and ssh into your slice from terminal and type in the code below to install the shorewall package.
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sudo -i
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apt-get install shorewall
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cd /etc/shorewall
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Tags: firewall, howto, install, setup, shorewall, Ubuntu
