Feb

Getting Speech to Text (stt) to work

Posted by Wayno Published in loni, Skill Level: Medium, sound

Lessons from Loni Okay so I installed “festival” which is a speech-to-text synthesiser. After a lot of fudgeting, I got LOTS of errors. So Loni had me check to see if I was a “member” of the group “audio” in /etc/group Nope, but that was easily fixable. I copied the file to a backup. TWO [...]

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Feb

1234567890

Posted by admin Published in Skill Level: Easy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_Epoch On February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to ’1234567890′. Parties and other celebrations were held around the world, among various technical subcultures, to celebrate 1234567890 day. Today’s Trivia! Wayno

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Feb

Configuring .pinerc for a pop3 server

Posted by admin Published in Uncategorized

This isn’t hard to do, but it took me a lot of trail and error to get right! # Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox # Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER). inbox-path={mail.yourdomain.com/pop3/user=yourusername}inbox I kept putting the “pop3″ in the wrong place. Wayno

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Feb

Recovering after hosing /etc/fstab

Posted by Wayno Published in fstab, Skill Level: Easy

Well – I shot myself in the foot the other day, on my Ubuntu 8.10 System. I made a change to fstab (the Linux file structure table) — but didn’t do it correctly…… When done editing, I did: I did a sudo mount -a -o remount and it re-mounted / (root directory) as read only…..since [...]

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Feb

Hobbit Errors

Posted by admin Published in Joe, Skill Level: Easy

I had updated Ubuntu (8.10) over night – and got this warning today: The following processes have libs linked that were upgraded: hobbit: hobbitd (21646) hobbitd_a (21694) hobbitd_c (21673 21674 21675 21676 21677 21678 21695) hobbitd_h (21684 21692) hobbitd_r (21687 21693) hobbitlau (21645) Wayno wrote: how do I fix/acknowledge this warning? would a “restart” fix [...]

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Feb