Just to be fair. Just because the price is cheap and the voice actor is not experienced does not mean it's not going to be good. There are prenty up and coming artists who probally wouldn't ask completely insane prices to a chance to get spotlighted.
On a similar thought, I hate it (in animated films or games) where the voice is so dominate that it overshadows that art. (examples, the complete Madegascar (spelling) lineup, Sam L Jackson in GTA:SA, etc etc)
ONE TIP: use the STRICT DTD declaration and it will get IE to work alot more like other browsers as far as CSS goes. If you don't delcare, use loose or traditional, then there's a world of difference between IE CSS & other CSS implmentations.
But if you do this, you have to make sure you CSS is pristine. In other words... "border: 1px;" no longer works, you have to specify "border: 1px solid #000000;".
Also, there can be no spaces between amounts and units... example: "font-size: 12 px;" won't work, but "font-size: 12px;" will.
I write a small piece of software that i use in my home LAN, and from work. It's called Halo 8 WWWinamp, and it's a continuation of the WWWinamp project from the nullsoft guys, who abandoned further development and open sourced it.
It is used in conjunction with Shoutcast, so it involves some streaming, but I think when it's all set it up, it could be what you're looking for.
feel free to contact me if you need help or have feature requests
it's available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo8wwwinamp
eeew, sorry about that. heh. here's the post as it was meant to be:
While it works, I'm not particularly happy with what I have. I can't daemonize WinAmp, and I can't separate it from the display, and I can't control it via Remote Desktop (on 'doze), so I have to start it manually at boot time, and leave the machine logged in (locked, of course); I also have to leave VNC running in case I need to remote-admin it. It works, for very small values of "works."
I run a small open source project, called Halo 8 WWWinamp, that extends WWWinamp, a mini-http server that allows you to control winamp remotely. It's easily configurable, and with some changes, it can operate 2 separate instances of winamp. It also has the ability to start up winamp if it is not running.
More info is abilable at http://projects.halo8.net/ or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/halo8wwwinamp/
If you can get 2 instances of winamp running on the same computer, it would be possible to set up 2 instances of WWWinamp to run as services (windows has a built in option of running items as a service, wwwinamp does not have this capability [yet?]). If the machine is rebooted, WWWinamp will start as a service, and you can hit a webpage and start winamp remotely. It is possible to run wwwinamp without a window, i do so from work when i forget to turn on wwwinamp. Again, this all hinges off getting 2 instances of winamp to work from 2 different sources. I wouldn't think it's too difficult, but i may be proved wrong.
While it works, I'm not particularly happy with what I have. I can't daemonize WinAmp, and I can't separate it from the display, and I can't control it via Remote Desktop (on 'doze), so I have to start it manually at boot time, and leave the machine logged in (locked, of course); I also have to leave VNC running in case I need to remote-admin it. It works, for very small values of "works."
I run a small open source project, called Halo 8 WWWinamp, that extends WWWinamp, a mini-http server that allows you to control winamp remotely. It's easily configurable, and with some changes, it can operate 2 separate instances of winamp. It also has the ability to start up winamp if it is not running.
More info is abilable at http://projects.halo8.net/ or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/halo8wwwinamp/
If you can get 2 instances of winamp running on the same computer, it would be possible to set up 2 instances of WWWinamp to run as services (windows has a built in option of running items as a service, wwwinamp does not have this capability [yet?]). If the machine is rebooted, WWWinamp will start as a service, and you can hit a webpage and start winamp remotely. It is possible to run wwwinamp without a window, i do so from work when i forget to turn on wwwinamp.
Again, this all hinges off getting 2 instances of winamp to work from 2 different sources. I wouldn't think it's too difficult, but i may be proved wrong.
Microsoft Verdana & Tahoma fonts. They common fonts for MS systems, and work under linux if you install the fonts. It's really hard to tell the difference between sites using IE on Windows and Mozilla on Linux with these fonts installed.
I typically use "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" or "Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica"
I would have to agree, I've found GRIP to be a great program. Simply pop in a cd, and watch tv/play ps2/download pr0n/compile something until it pops out. rinse. repeat.
i ripped my 300 cd collection in like 2 weeks just in my spare time. I just put the cd stand next to the computer, and put in a new cd whenever i noticed it was done. I've been really satisfied with the results.
I work at a bank, and we have the exact same problem where. There's just a vast number of lifers who have been with the bank for 20 or so years, and do not understand new technologies.
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Just to be fair. Just because the price is cheap and the voice actor is not experienced does not mean it's not going to be good. There are prenty up and coming artists who probally wouldn't ask completely insane prices to a chance to get spotlighted.
On a similar thought, I hate it (in animated films or games) where the voice is so dominate that it overshadows that art. (examples, the complete Madegascar (spelling) lineup, Sam L Jackson in GTA:SA, etc etc)
ONE TIP: use the STRICT DTD declaration and it will get IE to work alot more like other browsers as far as CSS goes. If you don't delcare, use loose or traditional, then there's a world of difference between IE CSS & other CSS implmentations.
But if you do this, you have to make sure you CSS is pristine. In other words... "border: 1px;" no longer works, you have to specify "border: 1px solid #000000;".
Also, there can be no spaces between amounts and units... example: "font-size: 12 px;" won't work, but "font-size: 12px;" will.
I haven't used it much, but Bluefish is(was?) really close to being like homesite under linux.
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/
It is used in conjunction with Shoutcast, so it involves some streaming, but I think when it's all set it up, it could be what you're looking for.
feel free to contact me if you need help or have feature requests
it's available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo8wwwinamp
While it works, I'm not particularly happy with what I have. I can't daemonize WinAmp, and I can't separate it from the display, and I can't control it via Remote Desktop (on 'doze), so I have to start it manually at boot time, and leave the machine logged in (locked, of course); I also have to leave VNC running in case I need to remote-admin it. It works, for very small values of "works."
I run a small open source project, called Halo 8 WWWinamp, that extends WWWinamp, a mini-http server that allows you to control winamp remotely. It's easily configurable, and with some changes, it can operate 2 separate instances of winamp. It also has the ability to start up winamp if it is not running.
More info is abilable at http://projects.halo8.net/ or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/halo8wwwinamp/
If you can get 2 instances of winamp running on the same computer, it would be possible to set up 2 instances of WWWinamp to run as services (windows has a built in option of running items as a service, wwwinamp does not have this capability [yet?]). If the machine is rebooted, WWWinamp will start as a service, and you can hit a webpage and start winamp remotely. It is possible to run wwwinamp without a window, i do so from work when i forget to turn on wwwinamp. Again, this all hinges off getting 2 instances of winamp to work from 2 different sources. I wouldn't think it's too difficult, but i may be proved wrong.
While it works, I'm not particularly happy with what I have. I can't daemonize WinAmp, and I can't separate it from the display, and I can't control it via Remote Desktop (on 'doze), so I have to start it manually at boot time, and leave the machine logged in (locked, of course); I also have to leave VNC running in case I need to remote-admin it. It works, for very small values of "works." I run a small open source project, called Halo 8 WWWinamp, that extends WWWinamp, a mini-http server that allows you to control winamp remotely. It's easily configurable, and with some changes, it can operate 2 separate instances of winamp. It also has the ability to start up winamp if it is not running. More info is abilable at http://projects.halo8.net/ or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/halo8wwwinamp/
If you can get 2 instances of winamp running on the same computer, it would be possible to set up 2 instances of WWWinamp to run as services (windows has a built in option of running items as a service, wwwinamp does not have this capability [yet?]). If the machine is rebooted, WWWinamp will start as a service, and you can hit a webpage and start winamp remotely. It is possible to run wwwinamp without a window, i do so from work when i forget to turn on wwwinamp.
Again, this all hinges off getting 2 instances of winamp to work from 2 different sources. I wouldn't think it's too difficult, but i may be proved wrong.
Microsoft Verdana & Tahoma fonts. They common fonts for MS systems, and work under linux if you install the fonts. It's really hard to tell the difference between sites using IE on Windows and Mozilla on Linux with these fonts installed.
I typically use "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" or "Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica"
I would have to agree, I've found GRIP to be a great program. Simply pop in a cd, and watch tv/play ps2/download pr0n/compile something until it pops out. rinse. repeat.
i ripped my 300 cd collection in like 2 weeks just in my spare time. I just put the cd stand next to the computer, and put in a new cd whenever i noticed it was done. I've been really satisfied with the results.
I work at a bank, and we have the exact same problem where. There's just a vast number of lifers who have been with the bank for 20 or so years, and do not understand new technologies.
I wonder what Microsoft did to piss Forbes off...
I think /. would get /.ed if google posted a link from there to here.