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Being from the wonderful world of true unix environments, I love my standard set of tools.  Also being new to OS X, I was a little disappointed to see that there was no wget installed by default.  Sure there’s curl but that’s a whole set of new flags to use and my memory is limited! Here’s a

After spending way too much time attempting to get the “Festival” speech synthesizer working on Linux without getting the dreaded “can’t open /dev/dsp” error message, I’ve finally found the solution. Just on a side note, the Arch Linux help page for Festival, suggests a fix that uses the “aplay” application, this is something which no longer

One of the first things I do when setting up a new Linux box is get my fonts sorted out, for obvious copyright reasons, the Microsoft fonts package isn’t shipped with Linux distributions.  The main reason for having Microsoft fonts on a Linux machine will be so that web pages that are designed for them

Having recently installed iOS5 on my iPhone 4, I was in a position where I had to reboot my iPhone whilst out and about.  Sadly at the time of writing this there’s only a tethered jailbreak for iOS5 for the iPhone 4. What this means is that I have to have the iPhone connected to

Having setup a new installation of Arch Linux, I worked my way through getting X setup and then decided to go with xfce4 as my window manager. After launching xfce with the “startxfce4″ command, all I could see was a flickering mouse background with a broken panel in the top left corner. After much Googling

Here’s a quick snippet to show you how to you login to your boxes through ssh without using a password.  Of course there’s reasons why you would and wouldn’t want to do this although that’s something for another article. First log in on A as user a and generate a pair of authentication keys. Do

For those of you who are using Samba on Linux (including Ubuntu) systems and would like to be able to have Windows users see your server in their “Network” discovery browser, here’s what you need to do. The following is required to get windows to see your samba share so you no longer need to

Having spent the last several years (since 2002 in fact) as a FreeBSD junky, I wanted to spend a little time setting up a Linux server.  Of course I’ve ran and used various Linux distributions for many years however when setting up a system to work as a server you soon notice that there’s holes

Here’s a quick example of how you can change your IP Address or other network settings under Debian via command line, this will be required if you’re setting up a system without a graphical interface. As always there is more than one way to do things, however this method is simple and works. These commands

If you’re using Windows 7 and haven’t been able to figure out how to escape fullscreen mode in Putty/putty.exe here’s how to do it: Right click in the absolute top left corner and the putty menu will appear. Depending on your setup and OS version the putty menu may appear when you right click anywhere