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Woot! Somewhere to stash [[random]] notes and howtos.
 
Woot! Somewhere to stash [[random]] notes and howtos.
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If the contents of this wiki seem a bit terse, it's because the intended audience is primarily myself, in the future, in a hurry and frazzled because something has broken or changed, and I can't remember how I set things up.
  
[[Ubuntu notes]]
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* How to use [[SSH Keys]]
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* [[Ubuntu notes]], [[Windows tweaks]], [[Android]] things
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* Dealing with [[Bluray]] content in Linux
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* Learn [[PostgreSQL]] in 10 minutes
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* Installing [[Django/Apache]]
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* Pimp my [[IRiver]]!
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* [[Telescope mirror]] fabrication idea
  
[[Cosmology]]
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[[Sci-Fi Night]], [[IRC Quotes]], [[FAIL]]
  
Pimp my [[IRiver]]!
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== Eine Alpensinfonie ==
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The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score Score extension] handles snippets of music notation using [http://lilypond.org/doc/Documentation/notation/index.html Lilypond]. An excerpt from the 4th trombone part of ''Eine Alpensinfonie'' by Richard Strauss, often played on a contrabass trombone although not specifically called for:
  
[[Epiphany browser]]
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<score>
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\relative c, {
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  \time 4/4
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  \clef bass
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  \key c \major
  
Now I'm used to Linux, Windows can be made slightly more bearable by installing [http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/ TXMouse] and [http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~iheckman/allsnap/ AllSnap]. These give you middle-click paste, focus follow and snappy window edges.
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  r2 r4\ff g\tenuto
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  c2.\tenuto c4\tenuto
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  g'2.\tenuto g4\tenuto
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  c1
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  e2~ e4.. b16
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  a1
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  g1
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  c8 r8 r4 r2
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  \bar "|."
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}
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</score>
  
Getting my [[ATI|laptop ATI 200M chipset]] to play nice with the plasma telly.
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You can hear (but not see!) it being played in this performance by the Berlin Philharmonic. I mean, I love how they at least bothered to point the camera at the trombone section, but the only time the 4th trombonist is playing his contrabass (you can see his bass sitting on its stand), and he's not in shot:
 
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Getting the [[NVidia 8800GT]] to work at all with gutsy.
 

Latest revision as of 02:47, 30 November 2022

Woot! Somewhere to stash random notes and howtos. If the contents of this wiki seem a bit terse, it's because the intended audience is primarily myself, in the future, in a hurry and frazzled because something has broken or changed, and I can't remember how I set things up.

Sci-Fi Night, IRC Quotes, FAIL

Eine Alpensinfonie

The Score extension handles snippets of music notation using Lilypond. An excerpt from the 4th trombone part of Eine Alpensinfonie by Richard Strauss, often played on a contrabass trombone although not specifically called for:


\relative c, {
  \time 4/4
  \clef bass
  \key c \major

  r2 r4\ff g\tenuto
  c2.\tenuto c4\tenuto
  g'2.\tenuto g4\tenuto
  c1
  e2~ e4.. b16
  a1
  g1
  c8 r8 r4 r2
  \bar "|."
}

You can hear (but not see!) it being played in this performance by the Berlin Philharmonic. I mean, I love how they at least bothered to point the camera at the trombone section, but the only time the 4th trombonist is playing his contrabass (you can see his bass sitting on its stand), and he's not in shot: