Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I've got a tune -- well actually a couple fragments of a tune -- stuck in my head and I'm not sure of the title (which makes it hard to go look up the rest of it and go play it). It'll come to me eventually ... probably.

Here's the main one.

I think I did that in such a way that it shouldn't cause horizontal scrolling on folks' "friends" pages. But if it does screw things up, I'll move it behind a cut tag.

(Swiped from acroyear70's journal.) "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." -- Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++.

Finger looks really ugly but is troubling me surprisingly little. I guess I should use Crazy Glue on cuts more often. Still tender, of course, and I'm worried about catching the edge of the glue-patch on anything. *shrug* It'll be interesting to see how this changes the behaviour of the edges of the wound over the course of the healing process, compared to just using a bandage.

More and more, I'm finding myself confronted with problems or tasks which would be easier if I could set up an Internet-accessible shared filesystem. I want small groups of people to have write/edit access to files in a common location. And I'm not giving out the password to either of my remotely hosted shell accounts (at my ISP and a friend's system). If I had a static IP address (I'm on dialup ... but maybe I can get away with one of those "dynamic DNS" services) and could count on everyone I need to give access to to have VPN software compatible with whatever I can set up for free under Linux, that would do the trick. Failing that, I wonder whether there's a free or extremely cheap, web-based SCCS/RCS/VCS/whateveryoucallit check-out/check-in system that isn't a headache and a half to use for people who don't like to do anything in a web browser except reading. (The VPN aproach appeals to me more. Just Samba/NFS/Netatalk the directory over the virtual network and use them as conveniently as (though more slowly than) anything on one's own machine. And everyone gets to use their familiar tools, which isn't the case if I just tell people how to look up the current IP address of my gateway and give them Linux logins there.)

I've got three different situations at the moment where such a thing would come in handy.

I'm still waaaaay behind on my friends page. Trying to get too much else done. Hope I don't get so far behind that the "20 previous entries" button stops working. I forget how far back one can skip.

A question for Windows-based musical types: if you use ABC, which Windows ABC software do you prefer, and why? (My approach to editing music so far has been to use NetTerm (telnet) under Windows or Nifty Telnet under MacOS; vi, abc2ps, ps2pdf, and sometimes gv and abc2midi under Linux; and finally ghostscript under Linux, Acrobat under Windows or MacOS and occasionally, uh, some program that plays MIDI files under Windows (I'm sitting at the Mac right now and don't feel like running to the other room to look up the name). This is how I managed to have typeset copies of a tune at Pennsic the day after I composed it, though that also required a little use of ftp. But if, as has been suggeted, I assemble a CD of ABC software and tunes, I'm trying to find out which Windows programs would be most useful without having to download, install, and try all of them myself.) Oh, and same question for Mac users.