Archive for September, 2006

send CBC.ca news alerts to your cell phone with procmail and awk

CBC.ca has a News Alerts mailing list where you can subscribe to get breaking news delivered to your e-mail inbox. Unfortunately, the news alert e-mail has a lot of extra gunge before and after the body of the actual alert, in our case, a header saying “Breaking news from CBC” and then some trailing text [...]

SuSE Linux round two

I decided to format my CBC-issued desktop and install SuSE Linux 10.1. You will recall that back in January I tried to install SuSE 10.0 on a Thinkpad T42, with very poor results. So why did I decide to try again? There are a number of reasons:

CBC is a Novell shop internally; they use GroupWise [...]

Sphinx talk at TAUG this month

As a follow-up to my last post, Simon Ditner is going to be giving a talk about speech-to-text integration in Asterisk using Sphinx2 and Sphinx4 at this month’s TAUG meeting. All the meeting details can be found here. You’ll also get to hear a demonstration of Simon’s own use of this engine, which is a [...]

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