Music/midi/audio station on Linux

* CCRMA (pron. "Karma") collection of tools:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

* Collection of audio apps -- KXStudio
http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/

* LMMS ("Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and MIDI")
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]

* Ardour (A DAW, but maybe useful)
http://ardour.org/ [ardour.org]

* Rosegarden (Best sequencer, with Lilypad notation support... )
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com [rosegardenmusic.com]


* GUI notation, MIDI creator
http://laborejo.org/
A GUI for Lilypond, a MIDI creator and finally a tool collection to inspire and help you compose.

...... and non-gratis, non-free, not on Linux but reputed software:
http://www.reaper.fm/

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How Mat Honan's digital life was wiped

Lessons to be learnt from
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/

- don't throw your personal information all around...
- don't tie everything to one insecure place...

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"How I lost my $50,000 Twitter Username"

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-50000-twitter-username/
Lessons:
- if your email address depends on your domain, and your domain is
stolen, your email address is stolen... and if everything else
depends on that, you are in deep trouble.
- Use longer TTLs for DNS MX record
- Two-factor authentication is a must

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Grammars and Nat. Language processing...

Start with this video lecture.. (Prof Kamala Krithivasan)
(About 1 hour)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aIRqNnUvEg

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Scientific ideas due for retirement

A large collection of them... read an article a day!
http://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-idea-is-ready-for-retirement

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