Archive for December, 2004
04-12-26
Tags: Played with the StandardBrains Editor (here, here, here, etc.) idea for a while today, with the
hope to do a FireFox version of it. The SB editor would be the perfect interface for editing things like wikiwiki pages, as I have noted years
ago. Basically, I would like to keep wiki’s ideas that (a) everything
is freely editable, […]
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04-12-25
Tags: Original URL: Fixed. Christmas Security Alert : php injection By: Mose on: Sun 12 Dec, 2004 [21:18 UTC] (2349 reads) To all tikiwiki administrators and
developers, here is an important announcement concerning security of
existing Tikiwiki websites, in all versions. If you manage a Tikiwiki,
you should read this article attentively, it contains all details about
how to fix the problem […]
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04-12-25
Tags: Original URL: I’ve long suspected that the Roomba is a "minespeeper for dirt", but I When the robot drives across a particularly dirty patch of carpet or
didn’t know it analyzes vibration patterns of the dirt. Is this
possible?
floor, sensors begin to "listen" to dirt through a vibration detector.
The navigation system then steers the robot in circles […]
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04-12-24
Tags: Original URL: Interesting but useful? Divmod Reverend
Reverend
is a general purpose Bayesian classifier, named after Rev. Thomas Bayes.
Use the Reverend to quickly add Bayesian smarts to your app. To use
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04-12-24
Tags: Original URL: This is a java-based system in which you can specify formal models of […]
state transitions. The SMC then compiles (somethings) for you, which
somehow makes object-oriented programming easier. Much of the detail is
above my head. Not sure this is useful as a basis for eye movement
experiments.
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04-12-23
Tags: Original URL: CVS Professional Support and CVSNT CVS is the world’s most deployed version control system for the software development business.
After installing TortoiseCVS today, I was
exploring the possibility of setting up my own CVS server. Looks like
CVSNT is a good candidate, although it might be too complex for my
purposes.
Deutsch
日本
Global
Corporations right through to Small to Medium […]
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04-12-22
Tags: Original URL: News from Ellen Bialystok lab: Gigi Luk, […]
a graduate student, is working on Chinese Moving Word. This was an old
news back in Sept. I wonder if they were thinking as we are, which is
… shhhhh
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04-12-22
Tags: Original URL: Pyrex sounds like a good alternative to SWIG, or a plain C extension. But, oh boy, it does generate ugly C code. Fortunately, it automatically compiles everything so we don’t have to be exposed to the trash. Pyrex
I don’t see how to put Pyrex together to existing C libraries, though.
A language for […]
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04-12-22
Tags: Original URL: In searching for a Python audio interface for the > pysonic> http://pysonic.sourceforge.net/> pySonic is a Python wrapper around the high performance, cross> […]
EyeLink experimental software, I was looking for something that
supports ASIO and is easy to use. Snack seems to be showing its age.
PySonic/fMOD sounds really interesting, but recording might be a issue.
Or not.
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04-12-22
Tags: DirectSound, DirectSound3D, with DirectX 6.1 and DirectX Creative EAX 2.0 and EAX 3.0 reverb with occlusion and Linux OSS (Open Sound System) support. Linux ESD (Enlightment Sound Daemon) support. Linux Alsa 0.9 support . ASIO Support for windows.
7.0 voice management support.
obstructions.
Multimedia WaveOut (for legacy and lower
latency NT support)
Macintosh
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04-12-22
Tags: Original URL: Microsoft Text-to-Speech in Python (pyTTS)
Sounds fun, but the Microsoft TTS quality is questionable last time I checked …
How to speak text to a user, with proper pronunciation and event handling
by Peter Parente
Abstract
The pyTTS module wraps the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) for use in Python. It relies on the
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04-12-22
Tags: Original URL: FMOD supports ASIO, which should be great for fast audio IO. However, What is it?
at this point, recording is nor supported. For that, SNACK seems to be
a better choice.
pySonic is a Python wrapper around the high performance, cross platform FMOD sound library. You get all the benefits of the FMOD library, but in a […]
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04-12-22
Tags: Original URL: "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn’t suck is probably Evidently, GMANE
I laughed over this quote — but that’s besides the point:
the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
warns you if you top-post, and refuses to […]
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04-12-22
Tags: Original URL:
Gmane
is a great NewsGroup <-> email <->Web interface to read and
post News. It beats OutlookExpress for sure. The latter depends on the
particular news server it is connected to, and I wasn’t able to find
comp.lib.sdl on the Duke news server. There are ways to get around, but
nothing beats a web interface for a causal […]
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04-12-22
Tags: Yesterday I made some changes to the SDL 1.2.8 source and recompiled it
into SDL.dll and SDL.lib. Then I had to recompile PyGame 1.6 to (a)
accommodate the changes in display.set_mode(), and (b) to create
executable pygame extensions.
Compiling pyGame was a new experience to me. Basically, you run the
"setup.py" script, which cleverly figures out the SDL library […]
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04-12-22
Tags: Such is today’s Google News Headline. What struck me is the last verb — one does not need any suggestion to agree with the finding. One the other hand, any other words, such as finds, claims, concludes, or proofs, would be more ridiculous. CNN Death takes no holidays, a cancer study suggests
International Herald Tribune - 1 hour […]
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04-12-22
Tags: Original URL: fullscreen->window & compiler errors From: Dan Royer <droyer <at> shaw.ca>
Subject: fullscreen->window & compiler errors
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.sdl
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:48:52 -0800
I have been trying to dig into SDL and discover the root of the problem
but I have not had any success yet. I am in the process of trying 1.2.8
to […]
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04-12-21
Tags: While working on the CJKE project, I found that PyGame’s display.flip()
function sometimes returns immediately, but sometimes takes up to 20ms
to return. This became a nightmare because on the one hand I cannot
tell when the display change actually happened (not waiting for
retrace), and on the other hand it may miss saccade/fixation deadlines,
making display changes visible.
Digging […]
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04-12-21
Tags: Original URL: MSDN Home >
MSDN Library Archive >
DirectDraw 7.0 >
DirectDraw Essentials >
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04-12-21
Tags: Original URL: Supposedly uses polling and misses VSYNC Microsoft DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (October 2004) IDirectDraw::WaitForVerticalBlank
The WaitForVerticalBlank method is used to help the caller
synchronize itself with the vertical blank interval. Depending on the
option set with dwFlags, WaitForVerticalBlank will 1) block until blank begins, 2) block until blank ends, or 3) trigger an event when the blank […]
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