Festival is a great text-to-speech engine. MBROLA also contains some impressive voice files that have notably higher quality than Festival’s default voices. Both of these systems are packaged in Ubuntu, and even though Festival can use MBROLA’s voice files, as of Ubuntu 10.04, there doesn’t seem to be a package to easily allows you to [...]
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I was researching methods to encrypt USB flash drives, to protect personal data in the event they’re lost or stolen, and I found a few good write-ups on the subject using tools available in Ubuntu. Although the current distribution of Gnome includes pretty good support for auto-detecting and prompting for the password for encrypted drives, [...]
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I was researching simple methods for backing up a basic Linux web server, and I found an excellent script that handles files and databases, and also dumps everything to a remote server. I was looking for something a bit less complicated and overkill than Bacula, but more comprehensive than simply archiving the filesystem, and this [...]
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