It's me, the guy who posted the original Ask/. question. No, conversation does not change the song. You have to say "computer" (or another word of your choice) before each command. So unless your date is your computer and you say, "computer, nothing compares 2 u", then you will be fine. The only problem with the speech recognition is that it doesn't work with accents and it might not respond if you are playing music with the volume up loud.
Sorry, I didn't think the mirror would get as much traffic as it did either. You killed my proxy!!!! You bastards!! Well, at least the original site should be back up by now.
It seems to be suffering from a little bit of the/. effect, so I put up a mirror of the actual document at http://www.pdavis.cx/HOWTO/LFS-BOOK/in dex.html. This not the whole site, just the document (the development version).
I know that I can find about a hundred uses for this at my high school alone! Bloated RedHat just doesn't cut it when all your computers are donated and have 300MB harddrives. That's what Linux should be used for anyway - to take full advantage of everything that doesn't have the 256MB RAM required to run Win2k.
Couldn't you just buy a really crappy old 486 for like 150$ and use NFS to get almost the same effect? Or you could even run a serial cable down and connect that way. (first!)
That's all I got to say. I'll gladly pay 50 bucks (not), but I'll still pay the 500 or so they'll probably going to charge if I can get a couple TERRABYTES out of it!
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It's me, the guy who posted the original Ask /. question. No, conversation does not change the song. You have to say "computer" (or another word of your choice) before each command. So unless your date is your computer and you say, "computer, nothing compares 2 u", then you will be fine. The only problem with the speech recognition is that it doesn't work with accents and it might not respond if you are playing music with the volume up loud.
Sorry, I didn't think the mirror would get as much traffic as it did either. You killed my proxy!!!! You bastards!! Well, at least the original site should be back up by now.
It seems to be suffering from a little bit of the /. effect, so I put up a mirror of the actual document at http://www.pdavis.cx/HOWTO/LFS-BOOK/in dex.html. This not the whole site, just the document (the development version).
I know that I can find about a hundred uses for this at my high school alone! Bloated RedHat just doesn't cut it when all your computers are donated and have 300MB harddrives. That's what Linux should be used for anyway - to take full advantage of everything that doesn't have the 256MB RAM required to run Win2k.
Couldn't you just buy a really crappy old 486 for like 150$ and use NFS to get almost the same effect? Or you could even run a serial cable down and connect that way. (first!)
That's all I got to say. I'll gladly pay 50 bucks (not), but I'll still pay the 500 or so they'll probably going to charge if I can get a couple TERRABYTES out of it!