HostOnNet.com » ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, Web Hosting Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:14:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Google Chrome TTS http://blog.hostonnet.com/google-chrome-tts http://blog.hostonnet.com/google-chrome-tts#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:26:09 +0000 admin http://blog.hostonnet.com/?p=215 Google Chrome have Text to Speech extension, that make it easy to listen to web pages instead of reading the page. You can install the extension from.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jbldhmenlfmbooleglopeplanhpmhmje

tts use web based google tts, so it is little slow, you need to wait few seconds before the sound starts. It is not perfect but acceptable. Not bad as festival tts.

I tested on windows and ubuntu. Both worked fine.

]]> http://blog.hostonnet.com/google-chrome-tts/feed 0 git: ‘svn’ is not a git-command. See ‘git –help’. http://blog.hostonnet.com/git-svn-is-not-a-git-command-see-git-help http://blog.hostonnet.com/git-svn-is-not-a-git-command-see-git-help#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:15:29 +0000 admin http://blog.hostonnet.com/?p=199 On ubuntu , when i run git svn, i get following error

root@hostonnet:/usr/local/zend/share# git svn clone http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/trunk
git: 'svn' is not a git-command. See 'git --help'.
root@hostonnet:/usr/local/zend/share#

This is fixed by installing git-svn

sudo apt-get install git-svn
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]]> http://blog.hostonnet.com/google-chrome-now-available-for-linux/feed 0 XPGnome – Make Ubuntu look like Windows XP http://blog.hostonnet.com/xpgnome-make-ubuntu-look-like-windows-xp http://blog.hostonnet.com/xpgnome-make-ubuntu-look-like-windows-xp#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:47:52 +0000 admin http://blog.hostonnet.com/?p=168 XPGnome theme can make ubuntu look like Microsoft Windows XP.

]]> http://blog.hostonnet.com/xpgnome-make-ubuntu-look-like-windows-xp/feed 0 Changing computer name in ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com/changing-computer-name-in-ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com/changing-computer-name-in-ubuntu#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:23:03 +0000 admin http://blog.hostonnet.com/?p=153 To change computer name in ubuntu, run

sudo echo "computer-new-name" > /etc/hostname

Now you need to reboot to get the computer name changed.

]]> http://blog.hostonnet.com/changing-computer-name-in-ubuntu/feed 0 How to extract RAR files in Ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com/how-to-extract-rar-files-in-ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com/how-to-extract-rar-files-in-ubuntu#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:50:22 +0000 admin http://blog.hostonnet.com/?p=142 To extract rar file, you need to install unrar with

sudo apt-get install unrar

To extract a rar file, go to command line, run

unrar x fileName.rar

For other command line options of unrar, run

man unrar
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To install festival, run

sudo apt-get install festival

Now to use festival, in command line type

echo "Host On Net Provides Web Hosting" | festival --tts

Or

festival --tts file-name.txt
]]> http://blog.hostonnet.com/install-festival-tts-in-ubuntu/feed 0 Reading and searching windows chm help files in ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com/reading-and-searching-windows-chm-help-files-in-ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com/reading-and-searching-windows-chm-help-files-in-ubuntu#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 02:19:37 +0000 admin http://blog.hostonnet.com/?p=46 By default ubuntu 9 have chmsee installed to view windows chm help files.

chmSee is ok for reading chm files, but there is no search function. If you have a reference chm file, it is not easy to find some thing you need with out search function.

I have installed xchm that have search function and also shows bookmarks.

xchm

]]> http://blog.hostonnet.com/reading-and-searching-windows-chm-help-files-in-ubuntu/feed 0 Extract RAR archives in Ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com/extract-rar-archives-in-ubuntu http://blog.hostonnet.com/extract-rar-archives-in-ubuntu#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 00:57:43 +0000 admin http://blog.hostonnet.com/?p=43 Accessories -> Terminal Run unrar x filename.rar hoston@linux:~/my/share/software/FTP$ unrar x [...]]]> To extract RAR archives in Ubuntu, you need to install unrar.

On terminal run

sudo apt-get install unrar

Or you can install from Synaptic Package Manager


rar

To extract a rar file, run terminal, go to the folder where the rar file is located.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Run

unrar x filename.rar

hoston@linux:~/my/share/software/FTP$ unrar x FlashFXP.rar

UNRAR 3.80 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2008 Alexander Roshal

Extracting from FlashFXP.rar

Creating FlashFXP OK
Creating FlashFXP/FlashFXP OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/FlashFXP Website.url OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/flashfxp.chm OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/FlashFXP.exe OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/IEFlash.dll OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/install.sss OK
Creating FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Bulgarian.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Catalan.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Chinese Simplified.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Chinese Traditional.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Czech.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Dutch.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/European Portuguese.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/French.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/German.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Hungarian.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Italian.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Japanese.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Korean.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Polish.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Russian.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Spanish.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Swedish.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/Language/Turkish.elg OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/libeay32.dll OK
Extracting FlashFXP/FlashFXP/ssleay32.dll OK
Extracting FlashFXP/SN.txt OK
All OK
hoston@linux:~/my/share/software/FTP$

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