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I've documented many of these utilities here: http://ss64.com/osx/
This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you can do say -v Samantha Help, I'm trapped in this castle! or say -v Princess Help, I'm trapped in this castle! But wait, it gets even better: The Mac comes with a number of voices for other lang…
say -vjun "[[inpt TUNE]] h {D 100; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} OW {D 200; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} l {D 100; P 220:0 220:100} IY {D 200; P 220:0 220:100} f {D 100; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} AA {D 500; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} k {D 100; P 174.61:0 174.61:100} IY {D 500; P 174.61:0 174.61:100} n {D 50; P 174.61:0 174.61:100} g {D 50; P 174.61:0 174.61:100} S {D 100; P 155.56:0 155.56:100} IH {D 400; P 155.56:0 155.56:100} t {D 100; P 155.56:0 155.56:100} IH {D 200; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} t {D 100; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} s {D 100; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} AA {D 200; P 220:0 220:100} d {D 100; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} AY {D 500; P 233.08:0 233.08:100} n {D 100; P 174.61:0 174.61:100} OW {D 400; P 174.61:0 174.61:100} s {D 200; P 155.56:0 155.56:100} OW {D 500; P 155.56:0 155.56:100} r {D 200; P 155.56:0 155.56:100}"This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you can do say -v Samantha Help, I'm trapped in this castle! or say -v Princess Help, I'm trapped in this castle! But wait, it gets even better: The Mac comes with a number of voices for other lang…
Another fun one: say -v cellos dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo Edit: 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' if anyone is curious. There is also 'Pomp and Circumstance': say -v Good dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum and Chopin's 'Funeral March': say -v Bad dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum d…
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If locking your computer in the office is required opsec, then you have already lost. First, you shouldn't have random people walking around the office. Once someone has physical access the battle is already over. Second, rogue employees are still rogue employees, and an unlocked computer is the least of your worries. With that said, I always lock my computer out of habit.
Not sure what size company you're working in nor what the requirements for opsec are their nor your privilege levels but it certainly does not mean you have already lost.
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"I don't lock my computer." This is a fire-able offense where I work.
That's a metric I use to know when it's time to change jobs: if I can't trust the people around me not to mess with my computer (or there's too many people to trust the environment) then it's time to move on.
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Another fun one: say -v cellos dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo Edit: 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' if anyone is curious. There is also 'Pomp and Circumstance': say -v Good dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum and Chopin's 'Funeral March': say -v Bad dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum d…
And yet another: say --voice='?' | perl -lane 'my $v = $F[0]; system("say -v $v \"Hi $ENV{'USER'}\"")'
for voice in `say --voice="?" | awk '{print $1}'`; do say -v $voice "Hello $USER, I'm $voice"; doneAs a longtime Mac user (as early as System 7) and aficionado of UNIX, I love OS X's CLI and its affordances. The linked article provides several well-packaged tidbits that might encourage users of other CLI-replete OS's to check out OS X. More power. However, I'm not a fan of the soft recommendation for Homebrew. I understand Homebrew places everything in `/usr/local` but software installs on Mac should generally con…
I think MacPorts is a much better tool than Homebrew with way more useful packages. It also installs itself into /opt/local by default so it doesn't conflict with other stuff in /usr/local and for actual OS X or X-Windows apps, it installs them in /Applications. Luckily, they can both live on one system if you're careful, as some people insist on providing only Homebrew copies of their software, which is a bit unfort…
This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you can do say -v Samantha Help, I'm trapped in this castle! or say -v Princess Help, I'm trapped in this castle! But wait, it gets even better: The Mac comes with a number of voices for other lang…
Non-case sensitive really bothers me with OS X
Having said that, I wouldn't reformat your boot drive to be case-sensitive because this isn't a common configuration and I'd expect 3rd-party apps to have problems.
What you can do is use Disk Utility to create a case-sensitive file system on a disk image, which gives you case-sensitive behavior when you really want it (and limited to activities on that disk).