From george at galis.org  Wed Mar  7 20:59:12 2007
From: george at galis.org (George Georgalis)
Date: Wed Mar  7 21:01:56 2007
Subject: [macosx-unix] voice synth
Message-ID: <20070308015912.GE399@run.galis.org>

There is a lecture in html I'd like to have read to me with the
voice synthesizer in the mac.  How can I get it to do that?

BTW, here is how I get the words to move when I'm too lazy to use
the scroll keys (program expects text on stdin, prints a byte
count at each paragraph and offers a crude way to start from the
middle, you'll have to fix the ^M ctrl characters...)

count=$1
dd bs=1 count=$count 2>/dev/null

while :; do
        count=$((count + 1 ))
        c=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' '^M' )
        case $c in
         ' ') sleep 0.09 ;;
         '^M') sleep 0.7 ; echo ; [ "$c" = "$c2" ] && echo "(($count))" && echo && c='' ;;
            *) sleep 0.05 ;;
        esac
        printf "$c"
        c2=$c
done


adjust delay to suit.

// George



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From bob at redivi.com  Wed Mar  7 21:09:09 2007
From: bob at redivi.com (Bob Ippolito)
Date: Wed Mar  7 21:10:11 2007
Subject: [macosx-unix] voice synth
In-Reply-To: <20070308015912.GE399@run.galis.org>
References: <20070308015912.GE399@run.galis.org>
Message-ID: <6a36e7290703071809m74fcd604s1817b505fd86065d@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/7/07, George Georgalis <george@galis.org> wrote:
> There is a lecture in html I'd like to have read to me with the
> voice synthesizer in the mac.  How can I get it to do that?
>
> BTW, here is how I get the words to move when I'm too lazy to use
> the scroll keys (program expects text on stdin, prints a byte
> count at each paragraph and offers a crude way to start from the
> middle, you'll have to fix the ^M ctrl characters...)
>
> count=$1
> dd bs=1 count=$count 2>/dev/null
>
> while :; do
>         count=$((count + 1 ))
>         c=$(dd bs=1 count=1 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' '^M' )
>         case $c in
>          ' ') sleep 0.09 ;;
>          '^M') sleep 0.7 ; echo ; [ "$c" = "$c2" ] && echo "(($count))" && echo && c='' ;;
>             *) sleep 0.05 ;;
>         esac
>         printf "$c"
>         c2=$c
> done
>
>
> adjust delay to suit.

man 1 say

-bob
From pete at nomadlogic.org  Wed Mar 14 17:45:39 2007
From: pete at nomadlogic.org (Peter Wright)
Date: Wed Mar 14 17:46:11 2007
Subject: [macosx-unix] Xmodmap for aqua apps?
Message-ID: <8053.160.33.20.11.1173908739.squirrel@webmail.nomadlogic.org>

hi all,

so i've finally had some time and fixed the annoying issue on my OSX box
where i could not get "alt+b" "alt+f" keybindings to work in X11 shells. 
i've created a ~/.Xmodmap file that swaps the alt and esc key
functionality in my X11 environment.  here's the changes i've done:

%cat ~/.Xmodmap
clear Mod1
clear Mod2
keycode 63 = Mode_switch
keycode 66 = Meta_L
add Mod1 = Meta_L
add Mod2 = Mode_switch


so, the question is - how do i get these new bindings to be recognized by
aqua.  heck - even better would be a good place to start reading how OSX
and aqua handles keybindings and such...seems i'm still stuck in the X11
world when thinking about this stuff.


thanks!

-pete



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From jaapna at xs4all.nl  Thu Mar 15 11:25:56 2007
From: jaapna at xs4all.nl (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Date: Thu Mar 15 11:26:06 2007
Subject: [macosx-unix] Xmodmap for aqua apps?
In-Reply-To: <8053.160.33.20.11.1173908739.squirrel@webmail.nomadlogic.org>
References: <8053.160.33.20.11.1173908739.squirrel@webmail.nomadlogic.org>
Message-ID: <A71F4820-66DC-43F0-A8F3-509AD9BA89A5@xs4all.nl>


> so, the question is - how do i get these new bindings to be  
> recognized by
> aqua.  heck - even better would be a good place to start reading  
> how OSX
> and aqua handles keybindings and such...seems i'm still stuck in  
> the X11
> world when thinking about this stuff.

Maybe this is a start: http://www.lsmason.com/articles/ 
macosxkeybindings.html

At the bottom it contains more links.

	jaap
From george at galis.org  Tue Mar 27 23:03:35 2007
From: george at galis.org (George Georgalis)
Date: Tue Mar 27 23:03:41 2007
Subject: [macosx-unix] getting system utilization..
Message-ID: <20070328030335.GO3815@run.galis.org>

I'm looking for some metric OS X system utilization... on NetBSD,
I use "sysctl kern.cp_time" and get the cpu clock cycles of
various states.

 geo@run:/home/geo/ sysctl kern.cp_time 
kern.cp_time: user = 516224, nice = 0, sys = 235061, intr = 14374, idle = 24752345
 geo@run:/home/geo/ sysctl kern.cp_time 
kern.cp_time: user = 516224, nice = 0, sys = 235061, intr = 14374, idle = 24752415
 geo@run:/home/geo/ sysctl kern.cp_time 
kern.cp_time: user = 516225, nice = 0, sys = 235061, intr = 14374, idle = 24752763

as you can see, using the command 3 times, the idle command was
mostly incremented but also the user clock. How can I get similar
info from OS X? I don't see anything resembling _that_ in the
mac "sysctl -a" listing.

// George



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