Notes on compiling LinuxSampler

I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 (64-bit) on a new machine and am currently in the middle of compiling LinuxSampler, and for some reason had to make source changes to the latest stable to get it to compile.

For starters, I had to run configure with –prefix=/usr. Don’t know whether that’s a 64-bit thing, a me-being-noob thing, [...]

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Regex Fu: Not Followed By

Everyone has their own regular expression implementation; especially text editors. One is good, while the rest range from absurd to almost usable.

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, you’ll find yourself in a strange environment needing to do some funky regex fu.

So for the sake of argument, let’s imagine we have a standard no-frills regex engine:

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Synergy - Not just for Buzzword Bingo

I decided to get Synergy working this morning - its a little piece of Open Source sofware that allows you to share a mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, even if they have different operating systems.

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