Difficulty level 1 of 5: Beginner
In terminal you can write something like: say ‘hello world’ Which will make your computer talk. To save the audio output to a file, use the -o option. A full example is: say -o hello.aiff -v ‘Alex’ ‘Hello, my name…
My top seems to act a little strange (running Snow Leopard). It doesn’t respond to the key commands I’m used to, e.g. for sorting on Memory Usage etc. Nevertheless, this is how I found out (by chance really) how to…
Here’s a game I like to play. Select two wikipedia pages at random, and find a route from one to the other. I stated a theorem once that: you can get from any page on wikipedia to the page on…
Completely off topic. Just a thought, is this what China will look like in a few years? A country of old people, governed by the children of the one-child policy era… Wonder how that will affect the current financial situation…
SYSTEM_PROFILER Show a very long list of details about your machine and kernel (verbose output) system_profiler
When I want to hear a particular rap song from 1992 on YouTube, the video service shows me this: Yeah yeah, copyright or whatever, but what is the point? Who gains what exactly? By the way, if you can hear…
While browsing the web for for good videos to help me land a cool job at high profile tech firm, I came across this series from an Indian university. Lecture – 16 Disk Based Data Structures You should be…
Big in 2005… Today I’m trying to find out whether BitTorrent + geodata is a “thing”. I have found out that it WAS a thing… in 2005! Just like Coldplay, Gorillaz, Eminem, 50 cents, James Blunt, Green Day… but it…