I found an article online once that taught me the “say” command on OSX – which i think was pretty cool! The command line function allows you to activate the speech to text feature of OSX and can be used for a variety of fun project. You can try it by firing up terminal (Applications…
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Bittorent Sync is the future of sharing
Two years ago I was a dropbox advocate, one year ago I said forget dropbox, google drive is the way to go, now i’m blown away by Bittorrent Sync. Now don’t get me wrong these incumbent technologies are still useful and is in no way phased out but bittorent sync is nascent, raises the bar…
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SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) subscription jobs
Anyone who have worked with reporting services have run into the problem of a report subscription not executing a report correctly and the usual response is “how do I re-run this report”. For the novice, we know that all the subscriptions are actual jobs under SQL Server Agent on SQL server. But going there will…
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Database Deployment Scripts
Many of us as part of our daily job perform database deployments. It is imperative that organizations implement adequate change management procedures to ensure programmers do not make changes directly into the databases of the production environment without first properly justifying the value of this change and testing their change in an appropriate testing databases….
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AI agent to Solve Raven’s 2×2 Progressive Matrix
The solving of Raven’s matrix is a problem faced by many computer science and psychology majors. Raven’s matrix is one of the popular test of the human IQ, what we may equate to human intelligence. Raven’s tests consist of a matrix of visual objects that are manipulated between pairs with the last image missing in…
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Bus Tracking Estimation
Using crowd sourced GPS location to estimate the time it will take for a bus to arrive at a given bus stop.
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Grenada first ever Carrenage dinghy concert
Grenada had it first ever dinghy concert on the Carrenage tonight. It started promptly at 7pm with beautiful pan music from “pan like yars “. Promptly followed by Tammy and Sabrina. Followed by the soulful sounds of “soul deep”. And to bring the show to am exalted end, king Ajumu performance left us filled. With…
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Flexget for Movies and TV Shows
Here’s the list of instructions I used to setup flexget on my Raspberry Pi. One day I believe i will automate this. 0. Setup Raspbmc Download the appropriate install.py for your system and execute it. Remember system here is the computer you’re using to prepare the sd card, not the Pi itself. 1….
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Cron on Raspbmc
Here’s another little tutorial especially for people new to raspberry pi or linux in general (such as myself). Cron jobs are used to execute specific actions at pre-configured times. These actions can be executing scripts, writing data to a file, etc. (would be glad to hear of stuff you do with cron jobs in the…
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This is a bit unintuitive but to access windows file shares on the Raspberry Pi (RPI) you are required to login to the box via SSH and run the below command. This is a necessary Security step. sudo smbpasswd -a pi Then set your password
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