Archive for September, 2010 | Monthly archive page
My dot files (Tips and Tricks for Bash & co.)
.bashrc # If not running interactively, don’t do anything [ -z "$PS1" ] && return # don’t put duplicate lines in the history and ignore same sucessive entries. export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth # make the history longer HISTFILESIZE=5000 # append to the history file, don’t overwrite it shopt -s histappend # check the window size after each [...]
Language Identification and it’s state in Free Software
Working on a new feature for eSpeak GUI I started looking into language identification. Forcing users to manually choose the text’s language is a botheration, so trying to guess it by checking which system dictionary contains the most words from the text or some other method would surely be beneficial. After a quick search I [...]
The Red Hat Way
I’ve just used one of the GUADEC USB sticks for the first time and found that, in addition to several PDF brochures and a bunch of wallpapers, it includes a Red Hat commercial. Excellent as always. I’ve just used one of the GUADEC USB sticks for the first time and found that, in addition to [...]
Command-line script to edit PDF file meta-data
I’ve just written a little wrapper around pdftk to simplify the modification of PDF file meta-data. It extracts the existing meta-data, opens it in your favourite editor, writes it back to the original PDF and finally removes the temporary files it generated. #! /bin/sh if [ ! -f "$1" ] then echo “Usage: $0″ exit [...]
Zeitgeist 0.5.1 released!
On behalf of the Zeitgeist Project team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Zeitgeist 0.5.1. What is Zeitgeist? Zeitgeist is an event-logging framework for desktop and mobile devices. Applications can push events into the log, and anyone can query the log via the rich query API. The logged events are semantically categorized [...]
