Linux.fm a constant stream of text to speech taken from the Linux Kernel project. Why? You ask. Because they can.
Taking Talk Nerdy to Me to Extremes
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James McDonald
Ubuntu Unity Desktop Environment
Apparently Ubuntu will be going for a game-change with a new Desktop environment named Unity. You can install it on Ubuntu 10.10 using the linked instructions There is a 2D and 3D version. I'm running the 2D version because the 3D version will probably slow my...
IPod Shuffle not mounting in Ubuntu 10.10
I, or more accurately my wife, has an iPod Shuffle Model No. A1112 When inserting into a USB port it's led flashed but it didn't appear as a device in the File Manager. It was detected by the operating system. # the iPod is detected... sudo lsusb Bus 001 Device 015:...
A Good Comms Cabinet & Cabling Supplier
Just bought a 45U rack from 4cabling.com.au Price was approximately 1/4 of what Dell was quoting. Once I got the new rack all I had to do was move the vertical rails in a so they matched the current Dell rack and all was good. In view of the foregoing I'm currently...
Simple test for odd and even numbers
I was just looking at this sites XML sitemap in my browser and got to wondering how it is displayed in such a nicely human readable format. Looking at the source of the sitemap.xml shows that it references an XSL style sheet....
Chookette – Layer of small eggs
Our newly acquired Silkie has layed two eggs. They are quite small and cute. Another dozen eggs and there will be enough for an omellete. We also have a Pekin chook and she and the Silkie keep each other company and provide moral support for each other due to being at...
A Good Kohana Tutorial
Check this out very easy to understand Beginners Kohana Tutorial. http://www.dealtaker.com/blog/2009/11/20/kohana-php-3-0-ko3-tutorial-part-1/ There are many other parts to it (I'm up to 2 at the moment).
Wonk — When you have to KNOW
A little while ago I was watching an episode of Covert Affairs and it used the term `Wonk'. I had heard the term "Policy Wonk" before in relation to someone employed as a political adviser that had a vast general knowledge of just about everything related to politics...
Adobe Acrobat Reader without using The Adobe Download Manager
The latest version of Acrobat Reader has some pretty good security restrictions so an upgrade is a good idea. However if you work on a network which has 512kbps internet connection you don't want to be running Adobe's Down Load Manager 30 times and sucking the files...
Alcatel OmniPCX Voice Prompts
Just had to upload voice prompts to an Alcatel OmniPCX. The process: Record the message using the "Sound Recorder" on Windows 7 (which saves to WMA format and it's got a high sample rate and it got 2 channels etc) Upload to a Ubuntu 10.10 Linux box and use ffmpeg to...