Archive for January, 2008

Small houses

Published by Jonah on January 8, 2008 in building, environment and green. 1 Comment

I have a dream of having one of these buildings (slideshow at Wired.com) in my back yard as a home office someday. Another dream is to get an acreage and scatter several of these buildings around with some paths connecting them together.

5 Dangerous things you should let your kids do.

Published by Jonah on January 8, 2008 in Uncategorized, kids and video. 0 Comments

Gever Tulley has a great video about the sort of dangerous things kids need to do when growing up. It is nice to see this kind of thing. Its a breath of fresh air from the fear society we live in. On a related note, kids don’t get the freedom to go out walking and exploring much anymore.

Scanning with sane’s scanimage from an ADF scanner to PDF and OCRed Text

Published by Jonah on January 5, 2008 in Uncategorized, hacks, linux, scanning, software and ubuntu. 8 Comments

Using libsane and tesseract, you can scan from an ADF (or non ADF) scanner in Ubuntu 7.10 to a PDF and OCR’ed text document with a few easy steps.

First we need to make sure we have the necessary packages installed.

apt-get install tesseract-ocr sane-utils

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