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Short version: The Book of Eli is a tough one to call - you may find yourself liking or disliking it based on your particular point of view.
Screen Rant reviews The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli stars Denzel Washington as a lone wanderer, making his away across a post-nuclear holocaust America, scavenging and scraping to survive - and well adept at it. The film opens with a really riveting scene, slowly panning across a wooded area covered in ash, and with more ash still falling from the sky. Here we get our introduction to Eli (Denzel), and a feel for his skills and patience.
Things are desolate and times are desperate - there aren't a lot of people left alive, and it's been long enough since the destructive event that anything Eli comes across has already been completely picked over by other people scavenging to survive. We don't meet anyone else for a while, spending time with Eli alone, and it gives us a feel for his lonely existence.
Eventually he comes to a town run by man named Carnegie (Gary Oldman). Carnegie has been sending out a pack of dirtbag marauders to look for a mysterious book that he believes will give him power. Eli is just passing through but of course we have the required bar fight which brings him to the attention of Carnegie. Carnegie is impressed by Eli's handling of himself against multiple opponents and wants him to stay - but Eli is on a journey and this is not his final destination. Eli meets Solara (Mila Kunis), who at first is employed to try to get cooperation from Eli based on her, uh, feminine wiles.
Of course it turns out that Eli has the book that Carnegie has been seeking and has no intention of turning it over to be used for evil purposes, and from here on out the story is about Carnegie trying to get the book from Eli, and having a difficult time of it despite seemingly having the upper hand in both manpower and weapons.
I struggled with whether I should mention which book Eli is carrying... Frankly I don't consider it a spoiler, as it seems to me that it's obvious, and it's difficult to talk about the film without talking about the book. But still... if you don't want to know what the book is, I suggest you stop reading now and skip to the end of the review.
The book is the King James version of the Bible. It seems that for some strange reason, it's the last existing copy - all copies of it were destroyed and the speculative toss-away reason given in the film bugged me, because it was much more suitable to another religious book.
For an R-rated movie where people are getting chopped up by Denzel and his big honkin' knife, the film is quite spiritual. It's kind of an odd combination that the Hughes brothers came up with here... I'm not sure who the audience is for this film. While it has some great action set pieces (Denzel's first encounter with bad guys was awesome, and just seeing him as a bad-ass in general is great), on the other hand some may consider that the film is proselytizing. So I would think that the bloody, R-rated violence would turn off some Christians who are drawn to spiritual films and the heavy relgious themes might annoy folks who just want to see an action movie.
The film seems to want to say that the Bible (or religion in general) can be used for good or perverted for evil. No argument there, but it seems an odd combination with the post-apocalyptic story line.
Denzel Washington is always great to watch in a role, and Gary Oldman just as much. It was nice to see Ray Stevenson post-Punisher and there some nice cameos by Tom Waits and Michael Gambon (Gambon's scene is quite funny in a dark way). As cute as Mila Kunis is and as hard as she's trying, she really doesn't seem to belong in the same scene as Denzel or Oldman.
Overall the movie feels uneven, like it can't make up its mind what kind of film it wants to be, or is an unsuccessful merger of two different stories. The first half of the film seems more self-assured and functions as a very good post-apocalypse film - but unfortunately, the movie gets very weak towards the end. And the very end almost seems tacked on from some other film and abrupt. I've heard the ending described as a great twist - but to me it seemed like a very disappointing anti-climax. There are things that are left unexplained... like where Denzel gets his awesome martial arts skills and why he's so hard to kill. Actually it seems the explanation may be spiritual, but that's speculation on my part - which again some people may like and others may find annoying.
I really went back and forth on this one, trying to decide how I felt about it (I hate it when I can't make up my mind about a movie). In the end I decided to bump it past the 50% mark for style, effort, Denzel, Oldman and the fact that the first half of the film is really quite gripping. This one is a tough call as far as making a recommendation - if you don't have a problem with a film where the hero portrays religion in a positive light (barring all the, you know, chopping people to bits) and are a fan of action and the aforementioned actors, you might want to give The Book of Eli a whirl.
If you want to discuss the film in detail, including plot spoilers, head on over to our Book of Eli Spoiler Discussion.
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Standard DVD or HD? Most Buyers Are Sitting It Out.
What if nobody wins the high-definition DVD format wars? That increasingly looks to be the situation for the next-generation DVD technology, which is available to consumers in two incompatible formats.
A little more than 18 months after their introduction, the two systems ? Blu-ray, developed by Sony, and HD DVD, from Toshiba ? have sold around one million stand-alone players combined. Both sides promote their technologies, their movie studio allies and the growing list of movies available in the new formats.
Yet neither has a clear advantage, either in terms of technology, number of movies or, increasingly, the price of the equipment. According to data from Adams Media Research, 578,000 HD DVD and 370,000 Blu-ray machines will be sold by the end of this year.
Read the full story at The NY Times

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I recently had $500 stolen from my bank account via the iTunes store. I am not certain whether the charges are directly from Apple or via some other company whose iPhone app has somehow circumvented whatever security is on the system.
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I am looking for somewhere that has compiles/maintains a list of unscrupulous/hacked/hacking iphone apps so that I can compare the applications that are on my phone with untrustworthy ones. Also, if anyone has advice with respect to cutting through the bureaucracy and receiving real support from Apple, that would be appreciated.
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Episode 34: Opposable Thumbs (yep, that's the challenge!)
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Thanks to Nik Kantar for giving us our listener-contributed challenge! Rob goes for a semi-murdered-out... something... and then gets in a pickle. Andy shines some light on Opposable Thumbs. We're dying to know the tales Andy's compound miter saw could tell... Taylor let's the Eaaaagle's sooooooar.... Like they've never soared... before.... from rocky coast...
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BELMONT � They came to Belmont Abbey College�s Wheeler Center Saturday afternoon in black T-shirts, black jackets and some even wore costumes and black paint.
And many of the 900 who attended celebrated on the court afterwards as the Lady Crusaders volleyball team claimed its second straight Conference Carolinas championship in a 3-0 sweep of King.
�The �Black Out� worked,� said sophomore outside hitter Hannah Schellenberg, named MVP of the tournament. �The crowd was incredible. We really feed off their energy and we have all season long.�
Since the teams shared the league title with 17-1 conference marks � losing only to each other � expectations were high for a competitive match.
But after surviving an emotional effort from King (32-5) in the opening set, the Abbey (28-3) took charge and cruised to the 26-24, 25-16, 25-19 victory. Only in the opening set, when the Lady Crusaders trailed 13-9 and 16-12 did the Lady Tornado threaten.
�I think that once we got the jitters out, we kinda settled down,� Belmont Abbey coach Mary DeJute said. �Of course, King is a really good team that�s won 32 games.
�It came down to staying calm and poised. We just focused on the fundamentals and everything worked out really well.�
The victory gives Belmont Abbey its 43rd Conference Carolinas title since the school joined the league in the 1989-90 school year. It also means the Lady Crusaders volleyball team is the seventh back-to-back league champion � the others were women�s cross country (1989-90), men�s soccer (1991-93), men�s golf (1994-97), women�s basketball (1998-2002), men�s basketball (2002-03) and women�s golf (2010-11).
Schellenberg�s 17 kills led the way for the Abbey on Saturday � and her back-to-back kills closed out the opening set after the teams were tied at 24.
A sophomore from Jacksonville, Fla., who was freshman of the year last year and player of the year this year, Hannah Schellenberg had two Lady Crusaders� teammates on the all-tournament team � older sister and senior outside hitter Lydia Schellenberg and freshman libero Ana Maria Pagan.
Pagan had 15 digs and Lydia Schellenberg 11, with Claire Lang adding nine kills and Caitlin Hankins six for the Abbey.
�This feels incredible,� Hannah Schellenberg said. �We�ve worked all season long and knew this is what we were capable of doing.�
For King, senior Kesley Griffitts and junior Payton Tipton were named to the all-tournament team.
Now, the Crusaders await word on the upcoming NCAA Division II Southeast Regionals, which will be played on Dec. 5-7. Wingate entered the week as top seed in the region and the pairings will be announced Sunday night.
The winner of the regional, which will be hosted on a campus site, advances to the Dec. 12-14 national championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
You can reach Richard Walker at 704-869-1841 or by twitter.com/JRWalk22
Belmont Abbey�s Conference Carolinas championships
1989-90 (2) women�s cross country, women�s basketball
1990-91 (3) women�s cross country, men�s soccer
1991-92 (2) men�s soccer, men�s golf
1992-93 (2) men�s soccer, women�s basketball
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1994-95 (1) men�s golf
1995-96 (1) men�s golf
1996-97 (1) men�s golf
1997-98 (2) men�s cross country, women�s basketball
1998-99 (4) women�s soccer, women�s basketball, men�s golf, women�s tennis
1999-2000 (2) women�s soccer, women�s basketball
2000-01 (1) women�s basketball
2001-02 (2) men�s basketball, women�s basketball
2002-03 (1) men�s basketball
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2005-06 (2) men�s soccer, women�s soccer
2006-07 (2) women�s soccer, women�s golf
2007-08 (2) men�s lacrosse, men�s golf
2008-09 (1) baseball
2009-10 (3) women�s soccer, men�s golf, women�s golf
2010-11 (1) women�s golf
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2012-13 (3) women�s soccer, women�s volleyball, men�s basketball
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Hello everybody, finally we begin to actually show how to develop plugins to extend Rational Team Concert (RTC). To follow the steps in this post, you must already have a server and a client properly configured for plugin development. If you have not, take a look at three part tutorial I published in this blog (part 1, part 2 and part 3).
For our first example, I chose something simple and easy, but it will clarify the process in a very objective way. Most steps in this example will be repeated for almost all plugins you will need, in fact the main change is usually at the source code.
In this example, we will develop a plugin that check summary description of a WorkItem and if this description contains the character "#", the plugin will not let this WorkItem to be saved. As I said, a simple example, but changing just one line of code, you can audit what you want in the summary of the WorkItem (eg: Avoid numbers, forcing some specific content)
Let's get started. First let's create a new Plug-in Project
Let's call it "rtc-summary-check-advisor."
We don't need to mark any option (activator, UI contributions, API analysis):
With the project created, select Dependencies tab and add most frequently used plugins as required (com.ibm.team.process.service, com.ibm.team.workitem.common, com.ibm.team. workitem.service, com.ibm.team.process.common, com.ibm.team.repository.common, com.ibm.team.repository.service) and import the package org.eclipse.core.runtime. After that, it is important that you save the project to refresh the workspace.
A pause now for important explanations. Before we continue we need a brief definition about extensions points and their relationship with the RTC. Well, Extension points are, as the name suggests, entry points where the plugins runs on system. In the RTC, these entry points are pre-defined by its API. In my work, the vast majority (95%) of the customizations that I develop uses as entry point the save workitem event. For this event there are basically two types of plugins: Advisors and Participants. Advisors are the preconditions and the Participants are known as follow-up actions. It is important to consider that IBM suggest as good practice (and I follow as a rule) that if a plugin will change the state of a workitem, it must be a participant. Advisors should not change the data, they only validate it.
With this in mind, let's select Extensions tab and add our Extension Point for this plugin. And since this is a pre-condition and will not change the state of the workitem, let's use an Operation Advisor.
Click Add.
Look for: com.ibm.team.proccess.service.operationAdvisors. This option only appears if you have correctly added the required plugins as mentioned earlier.
Fill the following fields:
id: Identifier of the advisor
class: Java class that will be called by the advisor
name: Name by which the advisor will be identified in the process settings.
operationId: Id of the operation where the advisor will be injected.
Now we add an extension service. For this simple example we would not need an extension service, but as in most complex plugins will need to load services from RTC API, I thought I would show you the complete way.
Right click, New -> extensionService
Type an id and use the same class used in the extension point.
Click implementationClass to create the class, it extends AbstractService and implements IOperationAdvisor.
Now we implement the class with the following code:
We will explore more details about programming in future posts, but with the comments and because it is a simple example, you will have no difficulty understanding the logic.
Now we need to create a feature and a site for our plugin. This is very simple.
Create a new Feature Project
Let's call it rtc-check-summary-advisor-feature
Now in Plug-ins tab, let`s add our plugin, as shown in sequence below.
Now let's create a Site Project
To speed up the development we can create the site in the server folder. The recommended folder is server\conf\ccm\sites\YOUR_SITE_FOLDER, in our case \server\conf\ccm\sites\rtc-check-summary-advisor-site.
Similar as we did with the plugin, we will add our feature to created site:
Now we build our site, right click site.xml file, and select PDE Tools -> Build Site
Before starting the server, we must create a provision file for our site to load. This file should be created in the \server\conf\ccm\provision_profiles. Create a text file with the following content and name it rtc-summary-check-advisor-site.ini
After starting the server there is only one thing to do: Enable the advisor.
Open the project area.
Select Process Configuration, go to Team Configuration -> Operation Behavior, look for Work Items -> Save Work Item (server) and click Add to add our Advisor.
All done! Now if you try to save a Work Item typing the "#" character in the summary will receive this message.
That is it, I hope this material help you guys. In coming posts I will bring more examples and will focus more on programming. The level will increase, I will assume that you've got the basics and I will focus in the API.
Source code is available for download
Leave your comments, critics, suggestions. Your feedback is very important to make me improve the material. Despite the fact that I'm relatively "old" in development world, I am entirely new in this area of articles, blogs and video lessons.
Some spelling errors may occur. If you find any misspelled words, let me know.


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The field of battle in the smartphone wars is narrowing. A poll taken by Crowd Science shows the once-fierce loyalty shown by BlackBerry users seems to be ebbing, while iPhone users are as devoted as ever.
According to the survey, nearly 40 percent of BlackBerry users say they'd actually prefer the Apple phone. And 34 percent say, if given a choice, they'd go Android, choosing any one of 25 phones using the Google operating system over a Blackberry.
That's bad news for Research In Motion, or RIM, the maker of the BlackBerry.
There's a pretty obvious reason for the BlackBerry's falling loyalty rates: It's become a standard in corporate America, meaning that its phones have become a device force-fed to mobile workers by IT departments, rather than the device they'd pick if they were spending their own money.
Not all smartphone users are so promiscuous. Far from it: Crowd Science says of the iPhone users it polled, fully 90 percent say they plan to stay loyal.
Also raising some eyebrows: 60 percent of those who say they don't own an iPhone or BlackBerry want an Android as their next phone.
That's good news for Google. Its Android phones have captured some of the iPhone's cool factor for themselves.
"Google has done a good job of stirring curiosity, but it's a scary road ahead for RIM," Crowd Science CEO John Martin said.
These switching impulses can't happen overnight, of course. Not while individual phones are chained to individual phone carriers, and businesses pick phones for their workers.
Wouldn't it be nice to buy the phone you want, pay a carrier its monthly fees, and just have it work with your corporate email? I'm convinced this will happen someday, just not right away.
People may say in a survey that they want Android phones, but the reality is that Google's contract-free Nexus One is a weak seller, with an estimated 135,000 units sold in 74 days. The iPhone sold more than a million units in a similar time after its initial launch.
Apple is still the king of the hip smartphones. But Google's brand oozes Web cool. Can it go mobile with its quirky, geeky image? Survey says there's hope for it down the road.


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Posted: Sun 14 Aug 2011, 23:21
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The Start of Wary-Browse-pup
1. Fresh install of Warytiny511.iso
2. Install Foksyfeyercore-1.0.0-1.pet
This installs Edbrowse, VI, SC, Lynx.
Edbrowse is chiefly the program I wanted, but the rest will be useful.
Once Foksyfeyercore has been installed open a terminal window. Run the command ifoksy.
Open a terminal and run the command foksy.
From the menu select 'I' for internet. Mcewanw set Edbrowse to be used for the internet. Since this will be the first time running Edbrowse, there will be a chance to create the ~/root/.ebrc configuration file.
Mcwanw's Foksyfeyer-1.0.0-1 pet file appears to install correctly in Wary 5.11. I haven't tested all of the features but if everything works, then there is a powerful marriage between X and speech. I don't know if any copy can be downloaded anywhere since Caneri's repository went down.
There is some excellent posts on using Edbrowse on pages 15 to 27 of this thread.
Wary Tiny is based on Wary 5.11
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Posted: Mon 15 Aug 2011, 02:32
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When this gets to iso stage, Wary-tiny will boot directly to Edbrowse. Foksy will still be there but will have to be accessed by typing the command !foksy. Note the quotation mark. Which tells Edbrowser that you wish to run a cli program.
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~/.ebrc is the configuration file for Edbrowse. If you are using Edbrowse for the very fist time, using Mcewanw's Foksfeyercore, you will have an opportunity to set it up before running Edbrowse.
Default settings can be used until you reach the following section:
# autosetup 3
# Mail accounts.
# These are the direct mail accounts, web based email is not needed here.
mail {
inserver = mail.
outserver = mail.
inport = 110
outport = 25
login =
password =
from =
reply =
Which is where you enter the information needed for Edbrowse to send and receive mail to and from a pop3 mail account.
I use web mail so skipped that section.
~/.ebrc is also where you enter functions, or scripts, containing Edbrowse commands, allowing one to do various things.
Functions that come sytandard with Edbrowse
A function to add bookmarks
A function to read last spam
You can also add your own functions and users have added the following.
A function to access wikepedia
A function to use Google
Mcewanw has added the following functions.
A function for BBC News
A function for logging into Murga Puppy Linux forum.
A function to search for a keyword in the Murga Puppy Linux forums, after logging in.
A function to search for a post author in Murga Puppy Forum
A function to allow one to return to the Index of Murga Puppy Linux Forum
A function to post a reply to Murga Puppy Linux Forum
A good write up on these functions can be found in this thread.
The ~/.ebrc can be edited with a text editer.
Or, from within edbrowse by entering the command "!edbrowse -c" This actually opens up another copy of edbrowse and loads the ~].ebrc into Edbrowse. You will see the number 5xxx. The lines are numbered amd "1,10" will display the first ten lines. "49,62" dispalys the relevant lines for the mail function, unless you chose not to enter any information.
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Posted: Tue 16 Aug 2011, 02:07
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Unless you are familiar with text editing with Edbrowse, it might be better to edit the ~/.ebrc file by opening it up in a text editer. From withing Edbrowse, the command "!vi .ebrc" will open the vi text editer and load the ~/.ebrc file for editing.
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2011, 02:16
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Okay, hopefully no one minds my rambling here. Don't know if anyones actually reading this anyway.
Some internet stuff from within Edbrowse
To connect to www.puppylinux.com from within Edbroswe the command is
"B http://www.puppylinux.com/"
If the connection is down Edbrowse will report that it can not open the site.
The command "!ifconfig eth0 up" will connect via ethernet
So Let's try it again
b http://www.puppylinux.com/
The numbers indicate that the connexction has been made. To display the information you need to tell Edbrowse what lines to display or print
{Home, page}
| | LATEST VERSIONS {Lucid 5.2.5}
{Wary 5.1.3}
Anything within { } is a link to another page.
A trial of a couple of Mcewanw's functions
To login to Murga's Puppy Linux Forums
edbrowse ready
<mflogin Trobin
attempting m f login entry
Username: |<>
Username: |<Trobin>
<mfpassword -------
attempting m f password entry
Password: |<>
Password: |<------->
submitting form
Enter z to page down
{Puppy Linux Discussion Forum Forum Index} |Puppy Linux Discussion Forum
Puppy home page: puppylinux.com
Yep, they still work
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2011, 05:29
Post subject: foksyfeyercore-1.0.0-1.pet
Subject description: I've put a copy on the web
Trobin wrote:
I don't know if any copy [of foksyfeyercore-1.0.0-1.pet] can be downloaded anywhere since Caneri's repository went down
Since Caneri's site is now gone, I've uploaded a copy to the web. Access link to the new download location is given on Foksyf Eye R murga forum thread first post:
I used to have a copy that worked on Ubuntu too, but I can't find my original files at the moment. If you have a copy of the whole lot that would be handy (I'd store them at the same linked website). I'll keep looking for the rest anyway. I've been thinking about foksy etc... but never quite found time to update all its constituents. Maybe someday... If I do make a new version sometime, I'll also provide a version of the apps all in separate pets.
Immediately after installing the dotpet for the very first time, you should open a console and enter the command:
foksy setup
there is a space between foksy and setup.
Then you need to reboot, and thereafter follow Trobins first post above instructions (i.e. ifoksy and then foksy)
I haven't tried foksyfeyer for a long time so have no idea if it works on any of the newer Pups, though from what Trobin relates it seems that it does to some extent at least... Handle with care though - wouldn't want you to overwrite any existing apps or libs with this old dotpet.
github mcewanw
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foksyfeyercore-1.0.0-1.pet is the only one I have, and just stumbled on it by accident.
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Posted: Wed 17 Aug 2011, 16:53
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Trobin wrote:
foksyfeyercore-1.0.0-1.pet is the only one I have, and just stumbled on it by accident.
No problem. For puppy at least, the files I uploaded are all the ones needed (apart from sox if anyone wants to use krecspk). In fact, the core pet is all that is required if krecspk not needed. The installation docs for foksycore are in the pet somewhere, but I'll find them and upload them separately since makes it easier for new installations. I'm pretty sure I could have arranged things such that a reboot at installation wasn't necessary. However... as things stand, immediately after first install, definitely need to enter:
foksy setup
I can't remember what that sets up, but it was important. After rebooting, you just enter "ifoksy" in any newly opened terminal or console, followed by "foksy" to get the menu program. No need to ever reboot again. Yasr, speech-dispatcher, and espeak should then start working. I tried it all quickly in my Wary installation and it does indeed still work fine - didn't test all its many functions though.
The Ubuntu foksycore version differed in that it was modified to work connectly with gnome-terminal, but that doesn't apply here nor to Lucid pup. I'll probably stumble across it again some time anyway, but if anyone has a copy of that version please let me know in case I can't find the original from these years ago :-)
I haven't been developing anything specifically for Lucid Puppy because it doesn't come standard with some stuff I use, which Wary does (and Wary is generally lighter on resources I believe). However, I should give the recent Lucid a try sometime. (I expect Pcreole works fine in Lucid though and perhaps Precord too). I note that the new Lucid uses Roxterm console, so, as with Ubuntu gnome-terminal, I imagine foksy would probably need some changes to make big fonts work with that.
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I'd suggest adding the special research hts_engine version of flite as an option for speech-dispatcher, which I compiled a few years ago and uploaded here:
That has much better voice quality than espeak even when espeak is used with mbrola. Unfortunately, flite-hts_engine has some flaws such that it garbles text sometimes. Pity, cos it is has really amazing voice quality for its size otherwise. I see amigo has suggested another possibility called svox-pico, but I haven't tried that one, so don't know how good it is.
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Internet stuff is ready to go. A remodelled version of Noobydoo's Firelog appears to work. It hasn't been fully tested yet and will be done soon.
It does provide internet functions using ethernet only.
Wvdial is in the full version may be in Wary-tiny.
I do have wireless but have never succeeded in getting Puppy Linux to recognize it. 431, Lucid, or Wary. Any time I tried I bollixed up things so bad that I had to reboot the router before Windows would connect.
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I have been reading this topic for quite a long time. And have tried all kinds of installations. Just reading the 47pages would take a few days.
Yet, I haven't seen any mention of other languages except German by MU.
Just English and English.. As if everybody in this planet uses English as their native language.
All the related links sometimes showed some non English but were very few.
I wonder why no one ever showed any concern for other languages.
Furthermore, even that English is not perfectly successful.
Not only has this topic but also other related posts in this forum never been able to show any real success stoies enough to claim that it is good enough for the blind in general.
I hope I am wrong cause I am loosing my sight day by day.
47 pages long and 4 years of talk is not enough? Are we chasing a rainbow or ghost?
I read a book about a voice controlled computer with all kinds of schematics in the late 1970.
Now it's year 2011. For more than 40 years, no one has succeeded this dream. What are we doing here?
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Re: svox-pico. That's the speech synthesis engine from android. On android it's an integral part of the system as a library. But someone over at debian hacked it up to be able to compile and use (as a program) under linux. the voices are really high-quality sounding. The drawback is that it only outputs wav files which then have to be played using aplay or whatever. I tired getting ti to work by piping into a player, but that doesn't work. Nice opportunity for anyone interested...
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The focus here may seem to be English only but I doubt the intent was.
Espeak has support, more or less, for the following languages.
af Afrikaans bs Bosnian
ca Catalan cs Czech
da Danish de German
el Greek eo Esperanto
es Spanish
es-la Spanish - Latin America
fi Finnish fr French
hr Croatian
hu Hungarian
it Italian kn Kannada
ku Kurdish lv Latvian
nl Dutch pl Polish
pt Portuguese (Brazil)
pt-pt Portuguese (European)
Romanian sk Slovak.
sr Serbian sv Swedish
sw Swahihi ta Tamil
tr Turkish
zh Mandarin Chinese
So it certainly should be possible to get a non English version working.
A quick system that might work for you, and others , is a Puppy with Foksyfeyercore. It works fairly well with Wary Puppy 5.1.1. If it works with Lucid Puppy I have no idea.
You can get foksyfercore through this post
Install as per Mcewanw's instructions.onfigure espeak to work with the language of your choice.
Use two windows. One for regular puppy applications.
In the other, open a terminal window, and run "Foksy" and, after the menu appears, "p"
Do your work in the first window, and when you need some thing read-
highlight the text.
Go to the second window and enter c x. Remember the space between the c and the x. The highlighted text should then be read out.
I read a book about a voice controlled computer with all kinds of schematics in the late 1970.
That may require someone with more expertise than I have.
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The focus here may seem to be English only but I doubt the intent was.
In the other, open a terminal window, and run "Foksy" and, after the menu appears, "p"
Do your work in the first window, and when you need some thing read-highlight the text.
Go to the second window and enter c x. Remember the space between the c and the x. The highlighted text should then be read out.
Actually, it doesn't matter if you put a space between the c and the x or not, foksy accepts either syntax. For text which has just been "selected" in another window (which can be an X application window) the key strokes to enter into foksy are actually: s x
c x is for the case where the selected text has actually been copied.
Though espeak itself can be configured for alternative languages, and edbrowse is pretty good in that aspect too, it is fair to say that foksyfeyer was developed and tested for english only. At the time, I didn't know anything about "locales" and so on. If I ever do any major work on foksyfeyer, I'll make sure to at least use the gettext system (which I also now use in Pcreole) so that foksy menu items will work with translations. However, that won't address the fact that many of these nevertheless useful old commandline applications are themselves targeted for an english-speaking audience only - can't do much about that sorry.
As for what reads like the suggestion that all these efforts have been a fruitless waste of time, well maybe that is true in general, I have no idea. At the time most of this threads many pages were being written, I was working on foksyfeyer and Trobin was working on his Seeing Dog Puppy (which was called something different at the time as far as I remember). I certainly found the parallel efforts useful since ideas were able to be bounced back and forward and many commandline apps tested to see how well they worked with screen readers.
Whether anyone else has actually used either of these systems (or the several similar ones) in daily practice, or even found them useful, I have no idea. Most everything I develop is usually for my own interest and use - I just sometimes publish things in case anyone finds it useful to him or her too.
I certainly do know that the application edbrowse, is used on a daily basis by a number of blind users, including the program's author Karl Danke. For some of that community, edbrowse seems to provide their main (and preferred) means of accessing the Internet, though probably not on Puppy Linux, which is fundamentally a graphical (X-apps based) distribution (which is part of what Trobin has usefully I feel, made efforts to address).
Personally, I'm very glad this thread exists in all its many pages, and continues to be added to. At the very least it provides (for me) a useful resource list on what commandline apps are available and on how well they work with screen readers, which is a resource I try to contribute to.
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There have been other attempts, noteably Elite OS, and Fluppy 013 that have buit in YYS systems, using, respectively, festival and flite.
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I can't, and won't, say that any of the 47 pages of this thread had any bearing on the above. But I am glad that this thread is here. As a resource that I, or anyone else, can use if needed..
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I am really loving this Grecian/Egyptian inspired Marchesa gown with a gold collar detail. This is a very refined look for Kim, and she managed to not go overboard on her makeup or too tight with her pulled-back hair. Since the neckline itself acts as jewelry, she made the right move by wearing a simple pair of studs and a gorgeous Lorraine Schwartz criss-cross cuff in white and yellow diamonds.
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Talk about getting better with age! Julia Louis-Dreyfuss looks like minimalist perfection in black Narciso Rodriguez with a sheer waist panel. Since she chose black, Julia wisely opted for a pop of color at the ear and wrist. Her Irene Neuwirth earrings and bracelet (in what looks to be chalcedony) stand out without going overboard.
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With Thanksgiving approaching, bakeries across the nation are churning out turkeys just as fast as they can.
Er, turkey cakes, I mean. Yeah.
I'm not sure who is more confused: me or the decorator who made this:
First I see a weird smiley face whose hair is on fire. Then I see... no, wait - sorry, that's all I see.
Despite the fact that these look like electrified squirrels with blazing tails, they're actually sort of cute. In a frantic, somebody-get-me-a-bucket-of-water kind of way, I mean.
Of course, then there's the turkey who's already been extinguished [smirk]:
(That's a brownie, not a cake. Pretty soon bakeries are going to start "decorating" our loaves of bread, if we're not careful.)
Unless you're eating at a restaurant at the end of the universe, I'm pretty sure your food should never talk to you - much less advocate your imbibing its flesh. Yech.
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Prize-winning Washington journalist Juan Williams was unceremoniously dismissed by NPR for speaking his mind and saying what many Americans feel: that he gets nervous when boarding airplanes with passengers dressed in Muslim garb. NPR banished the veteran journalist in an act of political correctness that ultimately sparked nationwide outrage and led to calls for Congress to end its public funding of the media organization.
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I say without hyperbole that this is the most important book I have read in some time; I hope its message is widely embraced.
Williams' book is a reminder that not every news personality is so ideologically blinded that he or she can't see merit in opposing viewpoints. Williams artfully illustrates how dialogue in our culture has become a screaming match where we can't discuss what we need to, and aren't concerned with being right so much as we are with winning the argument.
Largely, Williams' views are nuanced and well-crafted. There are a very few times when Williams himself seems to fall unknowingly into the political correctness (used broadly in this work, applied to both the left and right equally) he criticizes. However, this never seems hypocritical, because it's easy to imagine that, if you pointed these moments out to the author, you might very well get him to see your point.
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- 08-23-11
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Mr. Williams does an excellent job presenting his case in a fair and balanced view (pun unavoidable due to true reporting skills presented). Though it is clear he is right of center on many issues, he refrains from building straw man arguments in most cases. There are some glaring short-comings, e.g. he does not present a good balance of the abortion riff by leaving out details then, unwittingly, fails to heed his own advice. It happens so quickly you wonder what the editor was thinking.
All-in-All it was a really good listen and has helped me to balance my thinking a little more. I have begun to split my time between Fox, CNN, and MSNBC a little more evenly now. If you are looking for a political screed, this is not the book for you. If you are looking for a level headed and ever so slightly right leaning view. Get Muzzled (Pun intended).
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- 09-12-11
Well written, well read, & thought provoking
Whether you find yourself on the right, the left, or in the middle, Juan Williams' compelling look at political discourse in our nation is certain to make you think. Williams does an excellent job of exposing politically correct language and ideology on both ends of the political spectrum. I did not always agree with his perspective, but I was reminded anew of the importance of open communication if our nation is ever going to deal with the issues we face.
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- Gary
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- 11-05-11
Juan Williams, is obviously a man filled with some rage after his unjustified firing from NPR. He does a fine job of explaining that the true racism in our nation is mostly from the intolerant far Left, and not from the "racist Right" as the Left constantly screams.
Juan also does a fine job of exposing how our nation has become too polarized and too "politically correct" to the point that most real debates on the issues are limited to only superficial attention by the media. We've been effectively stifled to the extreme, thus leaving the real problems of our economy and society unfixed.
However, Juan also spends a good portion of the book pointing out the nearly infinite failures of Liberal thinking and policies, while also proudly wearing the same label. I found it particularly insightful that Juan admitted to being brought up under the belief that the fictional TV character, Archie Bunker, was the stereotypical bigoted Republican - to be protested against. Juan Williams explains that his community upbringing cemented this prejudice, and has thus dedicated his career to refuting and rejecting conservative beliefs. His book further proves that the Left are the bigger hypocrites, and pose a far greater danger to the "muzzling" of American thinking.
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- Nash
- 08-07-11
Great Story
NPR-shame on you!! It is unbelievable that they didn't have the courage to fire you face-to-face. keep speaking your mind.
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The following is an excerpt from my keynote speech at the 2009 SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS OF AMERICA NEBULA AWARDS.
When I was 12 years old, my teenage sister had a boyfriend whom my parents lovingly named "Cross-Eyed Larry." In my official capacity as the "obnoxious little brother," I took it upon myself to annoy and harass poor Larry at every opportunity. In fact, I specifically learned to cross my eyes so I could welcome him to our home with the appropriately juvenile comedic flair. (My mother constantly warned me that if I didn't stop doing that my eyes would stay crossed. In hindsight it appears as if she was lying or, at best, misinformed.) Anyway, my speech tonight is a long overdue attempt to make amends for my childish pestering and cruelty towards this polite young man whose only discernible character flaw was a poorly-aimed libido (no way he was getting over on my sister). But even more than an amends, I needed to find some way to thank him. And here's why: way back in 1964, Larry did something that would change my life forever. In order to get rid of me so he could stick his tongue down my sister's throat, Larry gave me a dog-eared copy of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. His plan worked brilliantly. The book not only turned my prepubescent, Hardy Boys world upside down, it would begin my lifelong love affair with science fiction. Unfortunately, Cross-Eyed Larry was not so lucky. Ultimately rejected by my sister, he descended into a life of drugs and crime that ended tragically when he was murdered in Attica State Prison because another inmate thought he was looking at him funny.
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The PCM has detected an abnormality in the high resolution timing reference signal. The "A" pertains more to an area of the system circuitry than to a particular component.
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So I am invited to a Mexican food restraunt by my daughter to discussed her up coming marriage to a guy 8 years older then her and planned to quit work and go back to school.
This would be a good time to discuss how he was going to support my 22 year old daughter who was still struggling to graduate college, while he quit work to go back to school full time. Was he thinkning I was suppose to pay the rent?
I sit down read the menu and he starts explaining how he can work part time while he goes to nursing school, and ..... then the waiter comes, the burito platter please, He fills my glass of water with the lemon and off to the kitchen he goes. the story continues, with cold looks on there faces. The restraunt is empty except for us good thing for what happens next. My daughter points to me, I turn around, its not the waiter but a poorly dresses nervous guy with long hair, Are you Mark? My daughter says yes he is, he says "You've been served" and he tosses a pile of papers in front of me and runs out. I stand up realizing what happened, My daughter calls 911 on the cell phone saying I am in violation of a restraing order! I grab the papers, spilling the water glass all over my son in law, put it back up an out I go. I told him what I thought of him before I dashed.
Back in the parking lot I reach for my keys, they won't open the door, They are my other set of keys to the same make different model. The process server races by telling who ever where I am and what I am driving, A SUV with a trailer behind it(I was doing yeard work that day). I run back into the restraunt via the back door, into the kitchen, everyone only speaks spanish, pointing to my keys I say Jobi say permissa and go to where I was sitting - no keys! The Busboy points to the host, He has my keys. I convince him to give them back and run out the back door, while they yell I can't go out the back door.
I stop at the chicken wing pub next door, I know the owner well, he's a former cop. He tells me to roll out the back way and wait for things to cool down.
In my truck I'm rolling and past the inbound cops that are coming in. and a paramedic truck. At the corner a guy stops in front of me so I can't turn right at the light. And here he comes, cop lights me up and I roll down my window. Cop says my future son in law was hit in the head by the glass and thinks he is bleeding, he reads the restraining order's, says I can't go home. I explain my wife and daughter don't live at my home, my wife moved out a few months ago, and my daughter has been in college for 2 years. The cop goes back to his car, I call a few friends asking them if I get taken in can they get my truck and trailer. I sweat, 1/2 hour goes by.... Cop says, future sonin law didn't press charges, I'm free to go. Cop said would have been more upset then I was! I go to a friends house, leave a voice mail to my attorney, why don't they work weekends?
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Judge Lets Feds Censor Blog For Over A Year So The RIAA Could Take Its Sweet Time
from the no-rush deptYou may recall a few months ago, that we broke the story about how the US government seized and censored the hiphop blog Dajaz1.com for over a year, before suddenly giving it back with no explanation or apology. Among the many problems with the government's actions, the really crazy part was the fact that despite a legal requirement to either give the "seized property" back by May 15th or file a case for forfeiture against the site, the government appeared to do absolutely nothing. When Dajaz1's lawyer, Andrew P. Bridges, asked the government about this, he was told that the government had filed for and received an extension, though no one had bothered to inform Dajaz1 or Bridges, or even allowed them to see the filing, the order or to speak to the judge. This "secret" extension process supposedly happened two more times, and all of it was "under seal," so even when the domain was given back, all we had to go on was claims from Dajaz1 that it had really happened.
The good folks over at Wired, the EFF and the California First Amendment Coalition sprang into action and filed with the court to have those documents unsealed. And while the court agreed to unseal the documents back in March (and then ordered them unsealed "immediately" on April 5th), the documents finally were unsealed yesterday.
The documents are embedded below, and there's really not that much there. Basically, the government keeps asking for an extension, insisting that it's in the middle of an important "criminal investigation" and needs more time. It claims, without anything to back this up, that actually doing what the law requires (giving the domain back or filing for forfeiture) would mean alerting those who were being investigated what was up, and might cause them to make a run for it or to destroy evidence. They provide no evidence to support this, and since Dajaz1 was never informed about any of this... they had no chance to refute these ridiculous claims by the government.
The only point that's brought up to explain the delay is in an affidavit from ICE Special Agent Andrew Reynolds, the slightly befuddled recent college grad who was in charge of the original error-riddled investigation, in which he notes repeatedly that the RIAA has not gotten back to him about whether or not their rights have been violated.
A sampling of content obtained from the DAJAZ1.com website and its purported affiliate websites was submitted for rights holder evaluation and has yet to be returned to HS, SAC/LA. Additionally, a representative with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has stated that he will provide a very comprehensive statement to ICE's and CBP's outstanding questions, in coordination with corresponding rights holders, which will be forthcoming in approximately 30 days.That was Reynolds statement on September 7th, 2011. Remember, thanks to Agent Reynolds, Dajaz1.com was seized on November 24th 2010. So we're talking 10 months later, and he's claiming that the RIAA still hasn't gotten back to him over whether or not the tracks were actually infringing or with answers to ICE's questions?!? And yet, in the original filing, Reynolds stressed the importance of completely taking away and censoring this website as quickly as possible because of all the harm it was causing. Yet, the RIAA gets to wait 10 months and never actually confirm that anyone's rights were violated? Perhaps the RIAA's reticence to respond was because it started discovering that the songs in question were actually handed over by official representatives of the labels or the musicians. Of course, that's no excuse for ICE to continue to hold onto the website in question. Just because they totally screwed up and rushed in to censor, doesn't mean they get to drag their feet in admitting error.
Either way, this is pretty crazy. Basically the documents show that the feds seized first, and then sat around waiting for the RIAA to actually provide evidence.... evidence that appears to have never showed up. As the EFF's Cindy Cohn told Wired:
"Here you have ICE making a seizure, based on the say-so of the record company guys, and getting secret extensions as they wait for their masters, the record companies, for evidence to prosecute," Cohn said in a telephone interivew. "This is the RIAA controlling a government investigation and holding it up for a year."Even more troubling, however, is that the repeated requests for extension do not (at all) address the key First Amendment issues about the fact that a news publication was completely shut down based on these accusations. The law is pretty clear that the burden for shutting down a publication is pretty damn high, and nothing in the filings comes anywhere close to meeting that burden. Even worse, the judge in the case, Margaret M. Morrow, just rubber stamps the request allowing them to move forward at will. She does not appear to ask any questions. She does not appear to even be curious about the fact that an entire website was shut down and censored without meeting the clear burden under the law. It's just "request granted," basically.
Not only that, but with the last two extensions, she granted them late. That is, they were both granted after the deadline, by which the government legally had to give back the domain. The first extension needed to be in place by May 15th, and indeed, was granted on May 13th. But after that, perhaps, someone realized that without anyone on the other side even having to know about this, they could take their time. The first extension only went until July 15th. But the second extension wasn't granted until July 18th. Legally that seems to mean that the government illegally held the domain for those three days when it had no right to do so. Similarly, the second extension expired on September 13th. But the judge didn't sign the next extension until September 19th. Again, it would appear that the government was then holding onto property it had no legal right to for about a week after the earlier extension expired.
Either way, for all the promises of a big criminal investigation that was going to turn into a big criminal lawsuit just as soon as the RIAA got back to Special Agent Reynolds, it appears the whole thing fizzled into absolutely nothing, leading the government to quietly hand the domain back to Dajaz1 in December... almost exactly a month after the final extension expired on November 11th. There isn't much enlightening in the unsealed documents other than a pretty clear reminder that the feds seized and censored a website on questionable legal reasoning and then refused to give that website the ability to have its day in court to protest that First Amendment violation.
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Unknown74 wrote:Is the Scottish International Airshow not part of the RAF100 Celebrations? I find that a little surprising and concerning. Also find it a little concerning that it appears to clash again with Bournemouth and Port Rush, which do appear on the RAF100 List, has the Scottish Show been overlooked - hope not.
SilentFlight wrote:TSIA and Portrush work together through R5 Air Displays. Also bear in mind that they are the two main shows for Northern Ireland and Scotland!
Unknown74 wrote:How about a Formation Flypast with a Scottish Based Typhoon and an F-35 together? A Welcome to Scotland for the RAF F-35 maybe?
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Embassies | Consulates in India Holidays List November 2017
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