Music

Guitar Pro

I want to be able to transcribe my riffs and licks so that I can more easily show them to people that I jam with. Vlad and Howie suggested Guitar Pro (wikipedia), which does transcribing and also can play your riffs at various...
General

PageRank 3

For some time, I had built up to a PageRank of 6, according to http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/. Then, I had someone deface my site with spam links hidden inside HTML comments and Google picked up on that and flatlisted...
Programming

Setuid demystified

Interesting that the Unix calls for setting user ids of processes are so varied and so complex, that they warranted an entire paper. I only skimmed, but I did get a pretty good description of the "saved uid" parameter of the...