August 3rd, 2007 mysurface
Recently I discover a nice software synthesizer called espeak from a post at Fedora Daily Package.
It reminds me that there is another text to speech synthesizer known as festival. Festival speaks english. For example to ask festival to say “Sound check 1 2 3″, you can do this:
echo “Sound check 1 2 3″ | festival [...]
Posted in Misc, espeak, festival, fortune | Hits: 30193 | 4 Comments »
July 26th, 2007 mysurface
Stellarium is an education tools for those who enjoy astronomy. Stellarium present you the starry sky in different period of time, different locations and different directions in 3D.
It allows you to choose the view port, any location from the earth and some other planets. Press 1 and select location tab to select your location [...]
Posted in Misc, stellarium | Hits: 18397 | 4 Comments »
June 30th, 2007 mysurface
ffmpeg is a very powerful tools, as it is a general tool for audio/video encoding and decoding as well as ripper, converter and even provided API for programmers. I came across a tutorial uses ffmpeg libs for writting a video player less than 1000 lines of codes, which is cool.
I have one time needed to [...]
Posted in Misc, ffmpeg | Hits: 27535 | 2 Comments »
May 18th, 2007 mysurface
Refers back to svn command line tutorial for beginners 2, I introduces a bash script that uses svn cat and vimdiff to compare files. This simple script written by Erik C. Thauvin only allows you to compare latest revision source with working source.
What if I would like to compare my current working source with [...]
Posted in Developer, Misc, svn, vimdiff | Hits: 19446 | 4 Comments »
May 11th, 2007 mysurface
I have read this at linuxinsight, which is amazing. You can actually record down your typing, screen output even you are running ncurses cli, all the data will store into a file and the timing will be into another file. With this two files, you can have scriptreplay to replay it all with the correct [...]
Posted in Misc, script, scriptreplay | Hits: 20173 | 3 Comments »
May 1st, 2007 mysurface
To measure a quantitative object, we usually use certain standard of units. To measure width or length of a piece of paper, we may use inches, centimeter or meter. Sometimes, the conversion between one system unit to another might not be straight forward. For examples convert inch to cm approximately, 1 inch is 2.54cm, 1 [...]
Posted in Common, Misc, bc, units | Hits: 14639 | 2 Comments »
April 25th, 2007 mysurface
In Linux, usually we have two major schemes for copy and paste. We can copy by pressing control+c , paste by pressing control+v ( right click and select copy or paste in context menu) in various GTK/KDE application. Another ways of perform copy and paste is highlight the text and hit middle mouse click.
Certain application [...]
Posted in Common, autocutsel, nohup | Hits: 14483 | 1 Comment »
April 15th, 2007 mysurface
Sometimes mouse cursor can be very annoying, when you are reading some articles, writing blog post. Especially when you are using a low quality optical mouse that always have jitter motion on mouse cursor, it will disturbs your reading and writing as well. To cater this issue, we have a package called unclutter to hide [...]
Posted in Misc, oneko, pkill, unclutter, xsetroot | Hits: 17697 | 1 Comment »
April 15th, 2007 aizatto
Note: This was done under Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10)
So I saw surface’s post on a Linux Alarm Clock using xmms.
In spirit of choice, I will show you my Mplayer Alarm Clock!
First I need to create a playlist. You can add the file you want to play (with fullpath) to a file. I do [...]
Posted in mplayer | Hits: 11711 | No Comments »
April 14th, 2007 mysurface
I have too used to alarm clock, to wake me up every early morning. I set my alarm on my cellphone every night before I going to sleep. But recently, a simple stupid idea of creating an alarm clock in Linux comes to my mind.
I usually turns on my laptop overnight for some downloads, system [...]
Posted in Misc, bc, xmms | Hits: 14093 | 6 Comments »
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