Space Station Lambda

Arch has been missing some important packages, so I put them up in AUR:

• industrializer great industrial sound synthesizer
• jack_capture CLI tool to record from JACK to WAV and FLAC. KISS philosophy.
• ams AlsaModularSynth is not a new package, but it was broken due to Qt transition. Fixed.
• vocoder-ladspa LADSPA vocoder plugin.
• kaconnect Qt version of aconnect utility.

The Linux Audio User list has started a virtual jam session, the current state of which can be seen at http://lau-cb.peterlutek.com.

Happy music making!

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The gimpfx-foundry package offers a bunch of Scheme scripts for the Gimp.
After installing you should be able to use them right away.

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[...] anything that’s in your fridge or pantry that is delicious and would usually be suitable for an appetizer is perfect for a bread basket.

Yummy and versatile.

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There is quite a bit of information on serving multiple versions of pages via Apache httpd’s content negotiation module, but Daniel Lorch’s notes on this topic is the best one I have seen so far.

It adresses all important issues and does it both straight to the point and in depth.

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Straylight Suites (Freeside Mix) is a Neuromancer-themed mix of four early Symphonic Electronica pieces. Both the original pieces and the mix were produced by the independent artist Wintermute. There are some female vocals and a distinct synth leitmotiv that accompanies you throughout the song.

Click on the icon with the downward pointing arrow to download, then close your eyes and savour it thoroughly.

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I need to escape strings that get inserted into a LaTeX document for an upcoming project, and found this on the net:

(define latex-escape (string-escaper '((#\\ . "\\\\")
                                       (#\~ . "\\~")
                                       (#\# . "\\#")
                                       (#\$ . "\\$")
                                       (#\% . "\\%")
                                       (#\^ . "\\^")
                                       (#\& . "\\&")
                                       (#\{ . "\\{")
                                       (#\} . "\\}")
                                       (#\_ . "\\_"))))

where string-escaper obviously is a function returning a function that escapes those characters in the string. They implemented string-escaper in Scheme (probably portable) and thus got a quite large bunch of LOC; I suppose it’d be less in Lisp. especially with the help of loop constructs.

I’ll keep you updated on it, since I can’t work on it right now.

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