I am using Linux 2.2.1 which claims that the Soundblaster driver is full-duplex but indeed I just tested it and I can't seem to record and play at the same time. Hmmm.
The 2.2.1 driver actually seems very nice and is definitely not OSS-lite, rather it is a version enhanced by Alan Cox. The japanese AWE patches are also integrated.
Launch applications (or perform any string of commands) by speaking into your mike. It works amazingly well.
For example, when I say "connect to internet", kvoicecontrol does "say connecting;/usr/local/bin/nconnect". 'say' is a cheesy speech synthesis program and 'nconnect' is a script that controls X-ISP remotely. Pretty nifty
My only beef with kvoicecontrol right now is that it monopolises (sp?) my sound card even though the AWE64 is full duplex. Fortunately all I have to do is right click on the docked kvoicecontrol to disable it.
I'm not affiliated with the site though I agree with you that it's pretty good.
The Qt lessons you say didn't load, probably is because I pointed you directly at the binary files and they need HTML plugin code to work properly with your browser. Just browse the pages of the site directly and you should find that they all work.
I'm amazed, except for small font disease, it actually works quite well. I'm not seeing any of the slowness others have mentioned, it's definitely faster than 4.5 and probably as fast, if not faster, than 3.0x.
Oh, seeing that I had the setting off for a long time I didn't know if that still worked or not. (it did at the time I was playing with it, but I had read reports that running krdb was not enough to erase the old settings)
If you make the above change, you will have to configure xterm and emacs colours by the normal means ie Xresources, and not by the KDE configuration menus.
KDE tries to play with Xresources to make all applications use KDE fonts and coloursq by default. This option was off by default in KDE 1.0 but was made on by default in KDE 1.1.
You can turn it off by going to Settings->Check off "Apply fonts and colours to non-KDE apps"->Press OK. You may have to restart X/KDE due to a bug in KDE for these settings to take effect.
OH mill, I almost forgot. It seems the rest of the GNOME developers are in complete agreement with the Bruce piece as well. Why don't you check the GNOME FAQ? (right after the place where they say the GNOME people like the KDE people)
Hmm, you can't be held responsible for the words of others but GNOME developers should be held responsible for what Bruce Perens (the "GNOME backer") says. I see.
In this case, Miguel (GNOME Developer) is in complete agreement with everything Bruce had to say in that particular piece. He said as much and has defended Bruce's article.
Note however, that since the QPL, Bruce has offered a "peace offering" to the KDE developers and seems to have done good on his word.
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Don't worry about it, Ivan E. Moore II has a great selection of apt-get'able KDE packages:
http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/
Furthermore, his Gamasutra profile says that he is a Microsoft Performance Engineer. Now isn't that damning?
This Will character has been traced even further.
I am using Linux 2.2.1 which claims that the Soundblaster driver is full-duplex but indeed I just tested it and I can't seem to record and play at the same time. Hmmm.
The 2.2.1 driver actually seems very nice and is definitely not OSS-lite, rather it is a version enhanced by Alan Cox. The japanese AWE patches are also integrated.
I'll give ALSA a shot sometime.
Launch applications (or perform any string of commands) by speaking into your mike. It works amazingly well.
/usr/local/bin/nconnect". 'say' is a cheesy speech synthesis program and 'nconnect' is a script that controls X-ISP remotely. Pretty nifty
For example, when I say "connect to internet", kvoicecontrol does "say connecting;
My only beef with kvoicecontrol right now is that it monopolises (sp?) my sound card even though the AWE64 is full duplex. Fortunately all I have to do is right click on the docked kvoicecontrol to disable it.
get kvoicecontrol here
A simple search for "linux" on news.com yields 333 matches. Wow.
I'm not affiliated with the site though I agree with you that it's pretty good.
The Qt lessons you say didn't load, probably is because I pointed you directly at the binary files and they need HTML plugin code to work properly with your browser. Just browse the pages of the site directly and you should find that they all work.
I've been dying to use Piano on The Net ever since I completely scrapped Windows with no chance of reinstalling it (first harddrive full).
Does any one have a CLUE how I can decode all these f*ckin QuickTime midi files so that I can play them under Linux? I have the AWE-midi plugin.
Here is a test page: http://www.artdsm.com/piano/18.html. And here are the rest of the QuickTime files: http://www.artdsm.com/piano/quicktime/.
Any advice, pointers, etc short of installing Windows or MacOS appreciated.
-N.
This is too funny. I've gone from being flooded with cartoons to being flooded with requests for cartoons. :)
Thanks to you all for mailing me copies of the cartoons. :-))
BTW, as someone pointed out the cartoons are still on the original site at:
http://thump.rotten.com/dilbert-hole/d001.html
I didn't pay attention when the Dilbert parody was announced but now I want to see it. Does anyone still have the cartoons cached?
I'm amazed, except for small font disease, it actually works quite well. I'm not seeing any of the slowness others have mentioned, it's definitely faster than 4.5 and probably as fast, if not faster, than 3.0x.
No, you read incorrectly. Corel's using KDE but that doesn't mean they won't bundle the Gnome libs as well.
theos.com runs OpenBSD, like, duh.
What OS was theos-software.com running? It's down right now so queso can't tell. :)
If Bruce was still at the OSI, maybe he could have vetoed Open Source (TM) certification of the APSL.
All that time spent downloading the trailer wasted...
Oh, seeing that I had the setting off for a long time I didn't know if that still worked or not. (it did at the time I was playing with it, but I had read reports that running krdb was not enough to erase the old settings)
If you make the above change, you will have to configure xterm and emacs colours by the normal means ie Xresources, and not by the KDE configuration menus.
KDE tries to play with Xresources to make all applications use KDE fonts and coloursq by default. This option was off by default in KDE 1.0 but was made on by default in KDE 1.1.
You can turn it off by going to Settings->Check off "Apply fonts and colours to non-KDE apps"->Press OK. You may have to restart X/KDE due to a bug in KDE for these settings to take effect.
OH mill, I almost forgot. It seems the rest of the GNOME developers are in complete agreement with the Bruce piece as well. Why don't you check the GNOME FAQ? (right after the place where they say the GNOME people like the KDE people)
Hmm, you can't be held responsible for the words of others but GNOME developers should be held responsible for what Bruce Perens (the "GNOME backer") says. I see.
In this case, Miguel (GNOME Developer) is in complete agreement with everything Bruce had to say in that particular piece. He said as much and has defended Bruce's article.
Note however, that since the QPL, Bruce has offered a "peace offering" to the KDE developers and seems to have done good on his word.
Maybe the GNOME thread had so many posts because it was left in a prominent position for maybe 20 hours?
Uh, see http://www.troll.no/qpl/
-N.
I'm glad. If they want a portal, let them use another URL for that.