Speech:Spring 2014 Arwa Hamdi Log


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Week Ending February 4th, 2014
2/1/2014
 * Task:
 * Maintain four logs
 * Read logs from last semesters system group, also read other groups logs
 * Login to Caesar and change password
 * familiarize myself with SpEAK

2/3/2014
 * Results:
 * I downloaded Putty and logged into Caesar as root using my wildcat username and password (same as username). I changed password by using (passwd) command then entering the old password then the new password.
 * Learned and reviewed some Linux commands.
 * Read logs.

Week Ending February 11, 2014
2/9/2014
 * Task:
 * Read system group logs from last year
 * Read about Fedora 20 OS and openSuse 13.1
 * Learn how to do and run an experiment
 * Find out if we need to get new prices for the system
 * Results:
 * Read logs and hardware configuration from last year.
 * I looked for a new prices for the main server (Caesar) PowerEdge 2650, and I found a used one in amazon with 2.8Ghz 4GB 5x73GB 2U - No OS for $99, but the average market value is $195 with (2x2.80GHz Xeon, 1GB RAM, 4x18GB HDD). Last year price was $239.99
 * The other 9 queue clients (Dell PowerEdge 1750) that named after characters in the French Asterix and Obelix comic book series, I found a couple on ebay for $140 Dell PowerEdge 1750 Server 2x 2.4GHz 8GB 3x 36GB PERC 4D/i RAID 1PS. Last year price was $139.99

2/10/2014
 * continued to read logs
 * spent two hours researching the system and its hardware
 * learning some new commands
 * free -m - available memory
 * hwinfo - extended hardware information
 * ps - process status
 * dir - list directory contents
 * format - format disks
 * fdisk -l - list all disk and partitions

2/11/2014
 * Read system group logs
 * Update Hardware page with new prices
 * Still need to update used disk space

Week Ending February 18, 2014
2/17/2014
 * Results:
 * I update the hardware page, by updating the used disc space and total disc space for all the machines by using df -h and SSH between the servers. I noticed that we have more disc space than last year.
 * I read and made some research about how to install Fedora OS from Linux machine. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Burning_ISO_images_to_disc/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux.html
 * Exchanged emails with the Sinisa about the proposal that he uploaded to the proposal page, and it makes clear our goals and tasks for the rest of the semester that we agreed to do from the last class.

Week Ending February 25, 2014

 * Task:
 * Update system software information page and find new stuff about Fedora20 to compare with the currently installed OS OpenSuSE.
 * Update hardware page to add Rome server
 * Install Fedora20 on my computer using virtual box

2/23/2014 logged in and read some logs, I also did some research about how to install Fedora20 on my machine. Found this tutorial useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm9skyZygNM
 * Results:

2/24/2014 logged in and read the information page and how to run a train

2/25/2014 VirtualBox.exe -extract on the command line. This will extract both installers into a temporary directory in which you'll then find the usual .MSI files. Then you can do a msiexec /i VirtualBox- -MultiArch_.msi to perform the installation. In either case, this will display the installation welcome dialog and allow you to choose where to install VirtualBox to and which components to install. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html
 * I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox on my computer so I can run Fedora20 Operating system locally on my computer. The VirtualBox installation can be started either by double-clicking on its executable file (contains both 32- and 64-bit architectures) or by entering
 * I also successfully installed Fedora20 on VM. Fedora is the second most popular Linux-based operating system, behind Ubuntu. This link is a great tutorial to install Fedora. http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Fedora
 * Iam having some troubles updating the servers graphic to add Rome machine into the picture, I am not sure how to get the .png picture. Iam working now on print screen shot and Iam using Photoshop but I got a funny result so I will keep working on that.

Week Ending March 4, 2014

 * Task:
 * update the hardware page, update the server graphic to include Rome.
 * Find out the problems behind the errors that I am getting when I start the Virtual machine that Fedora installed on.


 * Results:

3/3/2014
 * Finally know how to add Rome server to the graphic, I find a way to upload the picture that contains the server graphics with their IP address.
 * Go through some logs, and Googled some solutions to fix VB on my computer.

3/4/2014
 * I used Photoshop to add the last server Rome to the graphic servers, and I uploaded the new picture .png to the hardware page. I checked that is uploaded fine and the previous graphic is still saved at the file history.
 * I am thinking of reinstall the virtual machine and install Fedora again, maybe I did something wrong when I installed Fedora last week. I am looking now for a new tutorial to help reinstall VB.

Week Ending March 18, 2014
3/15/2014
 * Update [System Software Setup] page, I will add some new information about the last version of Fedora OS that we probably going to install.
 * Contacted my team to confirm my tasks for this week.
 * Run my first experiment this week. I learned and read about how to run an experiment.

3/16/2014
 * Results:
 * I already started my first experiment, Sinisa suggested we use Experiment 0168, so I started it but haven't finished it, I followed the instruction to run the train but I am getting some problems so I will start again tomorrow.
 * Read group logs and some classmate logs.

3/17/2014
 * logged in
 * Research Fedora 20
 * Try to run the Experiment 0168

3/18/2014 Fedora 20 can be installed and used on systems with limited resources for some applications. Larger package sets require more memory during installation, so users with less than 768MB of system memory may have better results preforming a minimal install and adding to it afterward. For best results on systems with less than 1GB of memory, use the DVD installation image.
 * Have some new information about Fedora20 OS but not sure what should I include at the System Software page. These what I have for Fedora update:
 * Fedora 20 provides software to suit a wide variety of applications. The storage, memory and processing requirements vary depending on usage. For example, a high traffic database server requires much more memory and storage than a business desktop, which in turn has higher requirements than a single-purpose virtual machine.
 * Minimum system configuration,the requirements may differ, and most applications will benefit from more than the minimum resources.
 * 1GHz or faster processor
 * 1GB System Memory
 * 10GB unallocated drive space
 * New changes made in Fedora20 OS:
 * 1) ARM as primary Architecture
 * 2) Application Installer
 * 3) Migrate to Bluez 5: BlueZ is the Linux Bluetooth stack for managing wireless Bluetooth devices.
 * 4) NetworkManager Bonding Support: NetworkManager should be able to configure bridge interfaces with commonly used options and recognize their existing configuration on startup without disrupting their operation.
 * 5) No Default Sendmail and No Default Syslog
 * 6) Visible Cloud and Web Assets

Resources: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html#hardware_overview http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/ChangeSet

Week Ending March 25, 2014

 * plan:
 * Run an experiment
 * contact the group to find out what we supposed to do next week
 * Find out the new group tasks

3/23 logged in

3/24
 * Results:
 * This week I run my first experiment successfully, I used the instructions of modeling group page just like Colby told me and show me how. I ran a mini train 0226
 * I also ran a master script experiment last class successfully, it was easier and it needs less work.
 * Read logs, doing some research about keygen.

3/25
 * Read logs
 * group agreed that we will going to meet after class to do the backup
 * I am not sure when we starting the new group tasks and what the tasks are.

Week Ending April 1, 2014

 * Task:
 * Run an experiment on Automatix and Rome
 * As a group we should decide for or against Fedora OS switch
 * Brainstorming for system's group proposal

3/26
 * Results:
 * We were able to format the 300 GB hard drive that that we installed couple weeks ago, Jonas wanted us to backup the Experiments on Sphinx instead of Rome. We followed a tutorial that shows some instructions and some commands to do the backup.

3/30
 * Read some classmate logs
 * Start a new experiment on Automatix (basic test experiment), I am using Exp 0213 for my testing, not sure how to save a copy of the experiment with new number.

4/1
 * Update Hardware Configuration page, I added Rome to the sever and machines list. I calculated its total memory by using [Memory per command( free -m), also I used the command (df -h) to get Rome total disc space and Rome used disc space.
 * I have to talk to my group about URC System's group poster, I don't have the information about it, what we should do, and what is my part.

Week Ending April 8, 2014
4/5 logged in read some information and logs

4/7
 * logged in to see what all my group members are up to and read their logs.
 * Read all the emails that Prof. Jonas was sending it to the system group to find a solution to the machines that have issues (Obelix and Automatix), and trying to get the problem. Sinisa was already working on that, not sure if he got successful with that, it looks so complicated.

4/8 I am following Colby J. instruction to run the First train/decode using our team's SUPER SECRET training and testing corpus subsets. I will update my log as soon as I finish it successfully.
 * I got an email from my new group members Avengers team, they didn't have my email to add me to the team's email, I feel I have a lot of work to do so I can catchup their emails and read all the information and work that they have done this week and run my own experiment.

Week Ending April 15, 2014
4/13 logged in and read logs

4/15
 * Read and research CMUSphinx, the web site that is listed in our group page. This web site has a lot of information about speech for developer. I spent two hours researching in this site.
 * Help Val writing the proposal, it should be one page about upgrading to Fedora20 over openSuse13.
 * Read logs of all classmate, and read my group emails.

Week Ending April 22, 2014
Logged in read some logs.
 * Results:
 * 4/19
 * 4/20
 * Logged in read team loges and see what they did these couple of days.
 * Work on the proposal, and write what I have on System's group page.


 * 4/22
 * Updated system's group proposal for moving to Fedora 20.
 * Read all about Exp 7 that Colby and David were working on, they posted it for everyone to check it. It has a great information about running a train, creating a LM, running a decode
 * Did some reading on the web site that Joshua sent to group to check it out, it has a great notes on Acoustic Models for Sphinx-3 and PocketSphinx

Week Ending April 29, 2014

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Week Ending May 6, 2014

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