http://trylinux.org Linux tips and advocacy Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:48:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During my Christmas break I've been working on another project.  I was playing World of Warcraft and was checking out some of the add-ons.  I noticed there wasn't any text to speech add-ons, so I thought I bet I could make it work.   Check out the site here:  WoWSpeech.net http://trylinux.org/2008/12/29/world-of-warcraft-text-to-speech/ I just installed the wordbook plugin for my wordpress blog.  Hopefully this will help me add some content to my facebook page which I have seriously neglected.  It seems like a nice plugin, let's hope it works. http://trylinux.org/2008/09/03/wordbook/ I ran across a great site today for people with kids or just want to filter traffic on their network.  I have 3 kids and I just bought my 5 and 3 year old a macbook to share.  When I ran across http://OpenDNS.org I thought wow this would be a ... http://trylinux.org/2008/08/26/opendnsorg-and-issues-with-mac-osx/ I've been slacking on the posts recently.  There has been a lot going on.  I've switched jobs and I'm now working for E.W. Scripps' Online Division.  E.W. Scripps is newspaper company based in Knoxville and also formally part of HGTV, FOOD Networ, etc.  I was brought on to help split ... http://trylinux.org/2008/07/28/lack-of-posts-recently/ Ever been frustrated by a processes that you could not kill on a Linux box?  I know I have, especially working with Samba and NFS.  Good news, there is a new sleep state that will help eliminate the problem and more code makes use of it.  In fact most of ... http://trylinux.org/2008/07/28/task_killable-in-2626-kernel/ I've tried the firefox 3 beta a couple times on my linux box.  Every time I try it the fonts and toolbars are obnoxiously big.  I couldn't find any help on this.  It seemed like a dpi issue, so I went to about:config and searched for dpi.  There it was ... http://trylinux.org/2008/04/18/huge-fonts-and-toolbar-in-firefox-3/ Two things I ran across today that I need to look further into. http://latencytop.org/   - This shows what processes are waiting on and looks very interesting. The other is Group Scheduling in Linux 2.6.24 and above.  This allows you to put processes in a group so that one set of processes can ... http://trylinux.org/2008/04/17/interesting-tools/ As I said in my previous post, I learned a couple things about bash today. I had a nice for loop that outputted the info I wanted, but not in the right order. I thought to myself, man if this were php I would just put it in ... http://trylinux.org/2008/04/04/sorting-a-loop-in-bash-and-other-possibilites/ Learned a couple things about bash today. I was wanting to print something out nicely, so I was using tabs to separate fields. As you know, nothing ever lines up if you do not have values very similar in size. So I was about to search Google ... http://trylinux.org/2008/04/04/lineing-up-fields-with-bash-or-other-programming-languages/ The procedure below will allow you to move Oracle data and redo files. 1. It is a good idea to make a backup of the directory you are moving just in case something goes horribly wrong. :) # cp -rp {data_dir} {backup_dir} 2. log in as the oracle user # su -l oracle 3. ... http://trylinux.org/2008/03/29/move-oracle-data-files/