Having just received my Kindle 2 and trying the TTS in it, nobody is seriously going to use TTS on the thing. Think robot voice with no cadence or inflection. I've worked phone menu trees with more personality.
Do you really not think that it will be a criminal offense to tamper with the airline safety system? And, clearly, people with good intentions would never do such a thing, so they'll presume you had bad intentions from the start. It already is. You know that part about the smoke detectors in the lav and breaking them so you can smoke? "Tampering with airline safety equipment is a federal offense punishable by..."
But it's not the Sunday following Passover, as Passover this year isn't until Sunday 20 April (really it begins at Sunset on 19 April) and goes for 7 days, until Saturday 26 April. There is an extra month in the Jewish calendar this year to help account or seasonal changes and differences between solar and lunar months.
Yep. Just use unzip and you'll get several XML files, among them: content.xml is the document itself, meta.xml is the property sheet info, styles.xml is the stylesheet(s) in use when the document was saved.
After that, you can your favorite XML widget, such as the XML::Parser Perl module, to turn it into HTML or other things of your choosing.
Or create an XSLT file and use something like Xalan to format it on the fly.
Thankfully you can talk to ADS via traditional LDAP as well. Some Perl-foo (or language of choice) and you have an LDIF file out of ADS. Add a bit more *-foo to remap the fields and insert them to your new LDAP server.
Don't have a Mac, so I can't try it myself, but why not install Samba on the OS-X machine, create some share points and connect to them from the Windows box.
I beg to differ. I have a full install of MS Office 2000 (9.0.2720); both buffoon and cretin are included in the spell-check dictionary. I just tried it to make sure.
Perhaps you have somehow broken your dictionary or have it set to use a language other than English.
I doubt that. Remember, Gracenote helped the RIAA in their efforts against Napster. That's where the "Auto-ban THESE titles" list came from, wasn't it?
I have found two solutions around this (although I agree about SMS pricing).
Require domain logins, don't even provide local logins to the machine. Then, as part of the logon procedure, use a logon script. Look in the patch archive to find the list of files it updates. In the logon script, check the timestamp on three of them and if they're out of date, run the updater.
Install VNC server on the user stations and set it to run at bootup. Then you can do nearly any administration task short of recovering from a complete blowout without leaving your desk. Do it after hours and you can reboot the machines right away. Or, use parts of #1 with a logout script instead to reboot the machine the next time they log out.
Even N scale is often using 5 pole motors. Kato is the most notable, but I think the other manufacturers do as well.
For plug-n-play locomotives, DCC decoders are installed by way of a drop-in replacement for the stock light board. For other locos, cutting away a small section of the frame may be required. The smallest decoder available from Digitrax measures 36 x.575 x.16 inches.
For me, the advantage of DCC is less wiring. With traditional block control, you run a wire from the control panel to the block it controls. Multiply that out by however many blocks you have and it can quickly turn into a copper mine under your layout.
With DCC, you run a single wiring bus under the layout and tap the track feeders into it. I can use one handheld control to make the trains move and throw turnouts, among other things.
Further, with DCC and a computer, I can create a CTC (centralized train control) board much easier, and with fewer wires, than with block control.
DCC may not be your thing but, personally, I prefer controlling the trains and not managing the track.
There are a couple people working on it. Part of the problem is that there are few model railroaders that are computer people. Far fewer are programmers. Even fewer still will be Linux programmers. Couple that with the documentation being less than stellar, it's not easy.
Just recently a guy came out with a Linux based Loconet monitor that displays the packet data. Basically a packet sniffer for Loconet. He's now expanding it to generate its own Loconet packets. Once done, he can expand it into a control program. I will say that he's released his source so far and it's looking pretty good.
Ummm. Loconet isn't ethernet on a train. Loconet is a throttle and accessory network for model railroads. It has nothing to do with commuter, freight and passenger trains other than the models being miniature versions of the real thing.
That's not to say that having network access on a commuter train wouldn't be cool, but isn't that what the Ricochet is for?
I've reread this article several times now and a couple things keep nagging at me.
A) It would have been nice to see some references to the problem sites. While I wouldn't consider myself a power surfer, I can't recall any sites having crashed my browser that weren't doing something funky. Poorly written ActiveX, bad JavaScript, etc will cause problems in nearly any browser.
2) I keep getting stuck on one paragraph:
Microsoft owns 99% of the web browser market share, and they control the HTTP protocol. They start adding a huge variety of features to their "Internet Information Server", their competitor to Apache, to offer advanced features to Internet Explorer clients. At this point, sites being served by Apache become useless. Then Linux becomes obsolete as a web server platform. Then Microsoft wins the war, and we're right back to square one, and proprietary technology wins again.
Since when does Microsoft (or Netscape for that matter) control the HTTP protocol? Granted they have a considerable amount of input, but control? (And don't we really mean the HTML spec here?)
How exactly do features added to IIS make my Apache served site useless? Suddenly my site is obsolete simply because it isn't pulsating with techno music and the text doesn't leap about?
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The Author's Guild should just give it a rest.
Having just received my Kindle 2 and trying the TTS in it, nobody is seriously going to use TTS on the thing. Think robot voice with no cadence or inflection. I've worked phone menu trees with more personality.
But it's not the Sunday following Passover, as Passover this year isn't until Sunday 20 April (really it begins at Sunset on 19 April) and goes for 7 days, until Saturday 26 April. There is an extra month in the Jewish calendar this year to help account or seasonal changes and differences between solar and lunar months.
This about.com article (http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/godsreligion/a/aa040200.htm) explains it better than I can.
that 640GB should be enough?
(Yes, I know he denies actually saying it, but we all know it's true anyway.)
It's not cheap, but from the specs it should work.
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Yep. Just use unzip and you'll get several XML files, among them: content.xml is the document itself, meta.xml is the property sheet info, styles.xml is the stylesheet(s) in use when the document was saved.
After that, you can your favorite XML widget, such as the XML::Parser Perl module, to turn it into HTML or other things of your choosing.
Or create an XSLT file and use something like Xalan to
format it on the fly.
Gotta love OOo and those open formats!
On the contrary, it is an answer. It's just an answer you don't like.
Thankfully you can talk to ADS via traditional LDAP as well. Some Perl-foo (or language of choice) and you have an LDIF file out of ADS. Add a bit more *-foo to remap the fields and insert them to your new LDAP server.
I didn't say it was easy, but it works.
Don't have a Mac, so I can't try it myself, but why not install Samba on the OS-X machine, create some share points and connect to them from the Windows box.
OS-X is basically Free-BSD, isn't it?
I beg to differ. I have a full install of MS Office 2000 (9.0.2720); both buffoon and cretin are included in the spell-check dictionary. I just tried it to make sure.
Perhaps you have somehow broken your dictionary or have it set to use a language other than English.
I doubt that. Remember, Gracenote helped the RIAA in their efforts against Napster. That's where the "Auto-ban THESE titles" list came from, wasn't it?
It was long considered low class in the US as well. It just seems that many of us have forgotten this fact.
Check the mailing list home page for subscription information.
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For plug-n-play locomotives, DCC decoders are installed by way of a drop-in replacement for the stock light board. For other locos, cutting away a small section of the frame may be required. The smallest decoder available from Digitrax measures 36 x .575 x .16 inches.
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With DCC, you run a single wiring bus under the layout and tap the track feeders into it. I can use one handheld control to make the trains move and throw turnouts, among other things.
Further, with DCC and a computer, I can create a CTC (centralized train control) board much easier, and with fewer wires, than with block control.
DCC may not be your thing but, personally, I prefer controlling the trains and not managing the track.
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Just recently a guy came out with a Linux based Loconet monitor that displays the packet data. Basically a packet sniffer for Loconet. He's now expanding it to generate its own Loconet packets. Once done, he can expand it into a control program. I will say that he's released his source so far and it's looking pretty good.
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That's not to say that having network access on a commuter train wouldn't be cool, but isn't that what the Ricochet is for?
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I've reread this article several times now and a couple things keep nagging at me.
A) It would have been nice to see some references to the problem sites. While I wouldn't consider myself a power surfer, I can't recall any sites having crashed my browser that weren't doing something funky. Poorly written ActiveX, bad JavaScript, etc will cause problems in nearly any browser.
2) I keep getting stuck on one paragraph:
Since when does Microsoft (or Netscape for that matter) control the HTTP protocol? Granted they have a considerable amount of input, but control? (And don't we really mean the HTML spec here?)
How exactly do features added to IIS make my Apache served site useless? Suddenly my site is obsolete simply because it isn't pulsating with techno music and the text doesn't leap about?
I think not.
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A little Perl and LWP::UserAgent ought to do the trick nicely for someone so inclined.
Besides, their dragon style just might beat your tiger style.
What was that movie?
Quan jing ("Spiritual Kung Fu" in English) starring Jackie Chan.