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Flite is text to speech engine for linux. It is based on festival speech synthesis system. Most of the linux sytems comes with flite in its package manager. It's just a apt-get on debian based or yum install in rpm based systems.

For example, you can install it on centos with below command:

I like to use rsync for scp for transferring files from another server whenever possible. But sometimes, we will be limited to use ftp for the same task due to different ssh port than the standard 22 as scp and rsync uses ssh.

Downloading each file separately one after another is tedious task than recursively download them. We can use wget with ftp protocol for recursively downloading files from another server. We will find out how to do this below.

Now a days more people are using dropbox for backup in linux servers. Dropbox is a great product which has their client in all major platforms. So this is really ideal for using in linux servers too.

Dropbox runs dropboxd daemon in the server to check for updates and syncing the contents between its clients across different platforms. Sometimes this daemon will get killed and our backup process will be in jeopardy.

I have blogged about the app images in this blog. They are very useful, especially if you do not have the root privilege or you do not want to mess up with your current settings.

So what if you want to create an app image for your favorite app that is not available in the portable linux apps site? There is a good how to created by the blogger tekkidd. He has also created a video tutorial for creating the app images.

You can read the tutorial here and watch the video here