I was playing with my new Ubuntu 9.10 installation and was wondering if the system could do some Text To Speech tricks. Sure enough. Not just one TTS utility, but two!
The first utility is “ESPEAK” and should be installed by default on your system. From the command line, give this a try:
espeak [...]
More good feedback and more changes to the CULLYTech Pomodoro Timer. There are new VCR style buttons for play and stop. There is a new Pause button! Handy for when you are interrupted. It happens in real life, so I thought I’d put on a pause button. I’ve made small [...]
A developer friend of mine, Toni Feltman, was Tweeting about reading the Pomodoro Technique. This technique is meant to increase productivity by focusing on a task uninterpted for 25 minute blocks, followed by a short break, and then repeating. Every four 25 minute blocks, you can take a longer break.
Read more about the [...]
I’ve been following along with the Computer Action Show and they just did a review of Haiku. In the end, I really wanted to take it for a spin.
Haiku is an operating system that is a complete rewrite of the BeOS using the MIT license. Do we really need another operating system? Yes. Choice is [...]
I had this problem solved several years ago … but of course I had forgotten it. I hope this helps someone else out.
I have Comcast Internet which has blocked port 25 in sending email, and now allows port 50. That port can change any day now, and without warning, no thanks to spammers. [...]
I’m on machine #2 of my house-wide upgrade to MEPIS 8.0 which is my Son’s desktop. He’s got some network card that reports itself as a “davicom semiconductor” card and the upgrade didn’t like it. No network access. I poked around and found the following commands that when executed as “su” solved [...]
My 9 year old son walked into my office yesterday. He was carrying his prized Lego Star Wars AT-TE Walker box and he asked me if I could open the box for him.
“Are you sure you want me to open that?” I say in a playful voice.
“Yes, just open the box Dad!” says he.
“I’m [...]
If you haven’t listened to Chris and Bryan’s show, you gotta:
The Linux Action Show
I’ve been doing more web site designs lately. My clients will often give me hundreds of product images that I need to manipulate. I’ve got Thumbnailer on the Windows platform to do a lot of my processing.
However, I’ve taken to adding borders to the images. Typically I’m adding a white inner border, [...]
My office is an oven in the summer. I’ve got two servers, a desktop, a laptop, and two 19″ CRT monitors. By the afternoon, temperatures are over 84 degrees in my office.
I’ve contemplated doing all sorts of expensive solutions. Window AC unit was one, but it would be ugly, loud and my [...]