Not that I'm very interested in using software for speech recognition, but if I were, I'd be in trouble. I stutter a bit (how to react when talking to a person who stutters), and, the estimates vary, a lot of people do at some stage in their life.
Most stutterers don't stutter when they're alone, though. But, then again, even when I'm alone, recording a message on an answering machine can be a challenge since I know that someone is going to hear it. Stuttering is a big mindfuck, so I wonder whether I'd experience the same sort of self-awareness when talking to a computer.
As far as I know, software like this doesn't deal well with speech disorders, and it probably should't be expected to.
we had to modify the MINIX kernel to do memory fragmentation
To be a little more precise: we had to modify the memory manager (that lives outside of the kernel) to do memory fragmentation.
I've had him as a professor
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I think I like this guy. Has anyone here ever had him as a professor? Is he this amusing when he's teaching class?:)
I've had him as a professor and he co-advised my Master's thesis.
Indeed, he is as amusing when teaching class. I took one or two classes he taught. However, his lectures are useless because his books speak for themselves. The only real reason to go to his lectures is because he is very funny.
In addition to the lectures, we had to modify the MINIX kernel to do memory fragmentation and modify the file system to support ACLs. Both not very hard, but a good learning experience.
I know he's always on the lookout for graduate students to work with him. Having had him co-advise my Master's thesis, I can wholeheartedly encourage you to work with Prof. Tanenbaum.
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My video card didn't work, sound didn't work, and, apparently, I use stale software with has been deprecated.
Either way, here's a review of my adventures:
http://thomer.com/howtos/hardy_heron.html
Here's a summary of the woes described on that web page:
1) to get nvidia to work for a GeForce 8600 GTS (and in my case TwinView, for two displays), you need to download a beta driver straight from nvidia,
2) to get sound to work you need to run a completely undocumented /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset,
3) Firefox 3 (beta) is cool and all, but it does not support various plugins so I downgraded to firefox-2, and
4) xmms, which is ugly but worked just fine, has been deprecated and its replacement, audacious segfaults and freezes.
5) I got annoyed by trackerd hosing my disk and my CPU, so I removed it.
Hope this helps.
I don't want to toot my own horn too much, but I wrote a tool against distraction. It's silly, but it works for me. Sometimes.
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http://thomer.com/lockout/
It was also featured on Slashdot a while ago:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/24/21282
Most stutterers don't stutter when they're alone, though. But, then again, even when I'm alone, recording a message on an answering machine can be a challenge since I know that someone is going to hear it. Stuttering is a big mindfuck, so I wonder whether I'd experience the same sort of self-awareness when talking to a computer.
As far as I know, software like this doesn't deal well with speech disorders, and it probably should't be expected to.
Lockout can change /etc/sudoers as well.
To be a little more precise: we had to modify the memory manager (that lives outside of the kernel) to do memory fragmentation.
I've had him as a professor and he co-advised my Master's thesis.
Indeed, he is as amusing when teaching class. I took one or two classes he taught. However, his lectures are useless because his books speak for themselves. The only real reason to go to his lectures is because he is very funny.
In addition to the lectures, we had to modify the MINIX kernel to do memory fragmentation and modify the file system to support ACLs. Both not very hard, but a good learning experience.
I know he's always on the lookout for graduate students to work with him. Having had him co-advise my Master's thesis, I can wholeheartedly encourage you to work with Prof. Tanenbaum.