+ 1 - 1 | § ¶Fixing festival can't open /dev/dsp error
This should work in more than Ubuntu; but I use Ubuntu:
printf ";use ALSA\n(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)\n(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command \"aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r \$SR \$FILE\")\n" > .festivalrc
From the Ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=171182&page=2
+ 0 - 3 | § ¶Starting gps bluetooth client on Ubuntu Hardy
First, get the device paired:
hcitool scan
Then use the MAC address to pair it:
rfcomm connect 0 00:02:00:F1:1A:70
Then start gpsd:
gpsd -N /dev/rfcomm0
Then view the results with xgps.
+ 1 - 3 | § ¶"My 5km run" - or: "How I almost died."
So I've been wanting to get back into running. Instead of being all talk; I actually got up at 6 am. I already plotted my course:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1945556
(more)+ 2 - 2 | § ¶Will PCIe 1.1 cards work in PCIe 2.0 slots
Someone asked me if PCIe 1.x cards would work in a PCIe 2.0 board. Here's what I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
This says:
That wiki entry has lots of neat stuff; worth a quick peruse.
So
the short answer is yes; I think this is fine. You just don't get the advantage of the 2.0
spec if you put a 1.x speced card in a 2.0 slot. They did the same
thing with AGP when you had 8x cards in 4x boards.
That's not to say that you won't get goofball cards that don't
work in a select few motherboards; that usually turns out to be the
case but that sort of thing seems to be improving as well in recent
years. I'd trust it enough to try it.
+ 0 - 4 | § ¶VMWare and Welch's Juice
Great quote. Hey; if Welch can trust themso can I.
"I have so much faith in the VMware technology that we are rolling it out to our five production plants. In fact, our secret juice recipe database runs in a virtual machine and has been running there for four years."
—George Scangas, Sr. IT Infrastructure Analyst, Welch’s, Welch'
+ 4 - 0 | § ¶Thank you again spammers...
...... for posting pointless entries in my photo gallery. No; I am not going to buy your sex toys. Thank you for posting your ad 800 times on a picture of a frog. Stupid turds.
+ 3 - 2 | § ¶3d Desktop on linux
Just a couple of cool examples of the new Compiz Fusion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4fTh0x3xLE&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ImW0-MgR8I&mode=related&search=
+ 4 - 1 | § ¶My life's a living joke
and here's the proof:
+ 5 - 0 | § ¶New puppy.
We now have a new puppy. She's pretty hideous as you can see in this picture.
+ 3 - 2 | § ¶Tunnel UDP over SSH
You never know when you'll need to tunnel UDP traffic over SSH. Here's a neat article on how to do that.
+ 6 - 0 | § ¶Zombies will eat your branies.
Liam drew a picture yesterday of a Zombie. It is chasing someone and it wants to eat his branies.
+ 1 - 4 | § ¶Bouncy Castle Economics
Just an amusing observation -- at Liam's School; they have a Spring Fun Fair. They sell tickets at the door for 50 cents each. A run around one of the typical big inflated bouncy castle deals goes for 4 tickets.
This thing has two sides; so it can take two children at once. The child enters the right or left side, then runs around some inflated fish, through a tunnel, climbs some stairs and then goes down a 15 foot slide. As soon as the children are going down their slides on the right or left; the next child gets the go-ahead. Takes about 30 seconds (I timed a small sample). So that's 2 dollars per side in 30 seconds; or 4 dollars a side in a minute, working to an easy 8 dollars a minute. This ride was non-stop for the entire time we were there.
Actually now that I think about it, the ride was more a Treasure of the Caribbean; the bouncy castle was just the thing they bounce around in while the parents wait for mid-air collisions that could send teeth flying.
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