Technology related rants and documentation
If you're having problems with Zoom not remembering your login or settings, check if your home directory as specified in $HOME actually points to a symlink rather than an actual directory.
Mine does, and zoom would always ask me to login (regardless of having ticked "remember me") and never retained settings between runs.
In the console output of zoom (in addition to a lot of binary guff - wtf zoom?) was:
Ardour is an amazing piece of software, but sometimes it still crashes. This is not entirely its own fault - plugins have to run in the same process so ultimately Ardour has no control over some of the code it ends up running. I find it pretty stable, but when you are syncing it with MuseScore and/or video things get a bit twitchy.
Of course, we all know to save early, save often - but when you're in the creative flow it's easy to lose track of time and not save for quite some time.
I've had to work this out again since reinstalling my laptop so thought I might record the result here...
Typical issues found when trying to get Ardour and MuseScore to work together is that MuseScore jumps around in a BAD way when it hits tempo changes from JACK, or it locks up, spewing lovely digital detritus into your monitors.
The best method I've found thus far (although it still does that lockup thing from time to time) is:
First rule of XML club is "Never use text munging tools with XML".
Here's a case where I successfully used text munging tools with XML.
This was an odd one. Recently I was setting up key-based ssh access for a server and the client was failing to connect with the generic "Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)." error.
I checked the server log (Centos, so /var/log/secure) and found an interesting "error: hash mismatch" message.
Using -v to get debugging info on the client end also gave me a message of "key_parse_private2: missing begin marker" - this was a red-herring and I suspect it happens often even when connections are working just fine.
If you spend any time in Google Webmaster tools and run a drupal site you've probably come across a collection of "Soft-404" warnings from google.
From: http://xkcd.com/488/
DRM shifts the balance of power so far away from users that it is against their interests, and therefore, arguably, against the interests of the artists and even the publishers.
After a year or more of occasionally glancing sideways at it, I finally decided to take a look at twitter.
A friend recently asked me in passing if I made much money off the Google Adsense Ads that I have on my site.
Gave QSynth (a Qt front-end for fluidsynth) a whirl today and couldn't work out why it was playing "out of tune", as if it was transposed up about a step.