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General Software Discussion / Re: [How To] Control your computer by voice commands
« Last post by 40hz on September 23, 2008, 09:24 AM »Might be interesting to use in conjunction with FARR... 
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I've just finished testing it and (knock wood) it works exactly as advertised. Diskette and permanent installations have not caused any problems on my test machine so far.
I'll still need to see if various defrag and other disk tune-up utilities I have will break it.
-40hz (September 20, 2008, 05:22 PM)
)I got a very interesting combination of black tea made with sage leaves as well-tomos (September 22, 2008, 05:29 PM)
very informative!
at time's I wondered though ...Adding milk to the tea is actually an English custom. Nevertheless, it's fine as long as you don't mind sweating like a pony- as a tea with milk drinker I dont find it any sweatier than withoutfollowed by
Smokers tend to like it for its detoxicating effect; tea with milk cancels the weariness caused by tobacco.
Things I've discovered relatively recently about tea:
if you brew it for less than 4 minutes - it has a very strong pickup effect
if you brew it for more than 4 minutes - if it's very srtong it'll get your heart going all right but it definitely doesnt have the same get up and go effect
Loved the Troubleshooting Section-tomos (September 22, 2008, 09:08 AM)
Russian Tea HOWTO
Dániel Nagy <[email protected]>
August 24, 2002 Caffeine is essential for keeping the brain active during nightly hacking sessions. There are, however, many ways to satisfy a hacker's need for caffeine. Drinking Canned Capitalism (Coke) contradicts the very principles of the open source movement, for it is a closed source product, manufactured by a huge, evil corporation. This sweet brown fizzy water is unhealthy and does not leave any space for creativity; you just get what you pay for. It is like M$ Windoze. Coffee is somewhat better (much better, in fact), though it can cause irreversible neural damage especially in young hackers still in larval stage (e.g. K-8), if consumed in large quantities. Moreover, it is strongly addictive and does not taste very good for those not yet addicted. A good tea, however, induces catharctic sensations even in those, who drink it for the very first time, warming one's mind, body, and soul. Many cultures have developed excellent ways of producing delicious tea. The English, the Chinese, the Japanese and many more have mastered the art of this divine beverage. In this HOWTO, however, I would like to focus on my native, Russian way of preparing, serving and consuming tea. The issues of scalability (preparing tea for yourself versus the LUG gathering), portability (preparing tea using different utensils), and quality control are also addressed in this HOWTO. Cultural references are given for the curious. Enjoy!
alternatively, have you guys tried grubdos? It basically leverages your existing boot manager in 2k/XP or Vista to allow you to boot other non-windows OSes. It's still grub, but you don't have to replace the MBR or partition boot record if you don't want to.-kreatorr (September 20, 2008, 11:48 PM)
Windows Boot Manager
Posted by Martin in Windows, software Tags: boot manager, boot-loader, bootdisk, bootmanager, master boot record, windows boot manager
20 Sep
Many users shy away from installing multiple operating systems on their computer because of problems that can arise in the boot sector. Some operating systems like to replace the existing boot information with their own which would mean that the user would have to find a way to replace or add those boot information again so that all operating systems would show up when booting the computer.
Windows boot manager Boot-US is a universal boot manager that can boot many operating systems properly including all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 to Windows Server 2008, MS-Dos, Linux, Free BSD, VMWare and several exotic operating systems like Oberon, Novel-DOS or QNX Realtime Plattform.
The boot manager itself can be installed in the MBR (Master Boot Record), the primary partition or on disk. The latter being an excellent way of testing the boot manager before installing it on the hard drive.
) does.Ooh, what if Cray made a video card...
-Edvard (September 19, 2008, 12:02 PM)
It would be more like a graphics tower box requiring an insane cooling system than a graphics card, methinks-f0dder (September 19, 2008, 12:08 PM)
Belgian researchers develop desktop supercomputer.
How much computing power can you cram into a single desktop PC?
In our research on image reconstruction we often have to perform large-scale scientific computations, which can easily take weeks on a normal PC. To tackle this problem, we have developed a special PC that is capable of performing our computations just as fast as a cluster consisting of hundreds of PCs. Using this superPC, which consists mainly of gaming hardware and costs less than 4000 euro, we can now perform our three-dimensional reconstructions within a few hours: over 100 times as fast.
The research group ASTRA, part of the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp, focuses on the development of new computational methods for tomography. Tomography is a technique used in medical scanners to create three-dimensional images of the internal organs of patients, based on a large number of X-ray photos that are acquired over a range of angles. ASTRA develops new reconstruction techniques that lead to better reconstruction quality than classical methods.
Although our reconstruction techniques are very powerful, they have an important drawback: they are quite slow. As the 3D images that we normally deal with can be rather large (typically 1024x1024x1024 volume elements, or more), advanced reconstruction methods can sometimes take weeks of computation time on a normal PC.
That game got me to buy their music album back in 2005.-Deozaan (September 18, 2008, 05:56 PM)
Definitely strange bedfellows...
Sorry I can't be more clear!-friedsonjm (September 08, 2008, 04:52 PM)
I have heard good things about time machine...-urlwolf (September 18, 2008, 06:43 AM)
I'm not enlightened enough to be making koans. The occasional zinger is as close as I ever get.
Don't worry, I'm not enlightened enough to know the difference.-Paul Keith (September 18, 2008, 06:20 AM)
) is refusing to reboot. I agree with both of you though I'm not sure if what 40hz posted was a koan or a real life recent incident.-Paul Keith (September 17, 2008, 08:25 PM)
"We wants it Deagol my love. Gives it to usss...It's my Preciousss..."Shouldn't that be Smeagol?-40hz (September 17, 2008, 06:29 PM)-f0dder (September 18, 2008, 05:20 AM)
and the thought of having a 64kg heavy elite-looking supercomputer to heat up my flat during winter? Priceless.-f0dder (September 18, 2008, 05:20 AM)
)Yeah...
Sometimes I look through the Best Buy ads or whatnot and see hardrives bigger than I can imagine and think "What the hell would I store on that thing that would justify a hard drive that large?"
Answer (sadly): Whatever the hell you want...-Edvard (September 17, 2008, 06:17 PM)
Why would the "mainstream" even want a $25k supercomputer at home?-Deozaan (September 17, 2008, 04:28 PM)
)Posted by: Edvard
Ballmer & friends just couldn't leave well enough alone, could they?
Admit it, you knew it was going to happen...
The solution I use now is to open the pst from one computer in the other installation of Outlook and simply "copy to folder" the sent items that I want synced. It's not that cumbersome and doesn't even take that long, but it's the principle of the thing that bothers me-Darwin (September 17, 2008, 01:56 PM)
