I do not want objects talking to me. That creeps me right the fuck out.
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
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le nubian - Jun 15, 2005 8:13:20 am PDT #3384 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DXMachina - Jun 15, 2005 8:44:25 am PDT #3385 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yup. Yesterday, our marketing assistant walked away from her Mac after setting up a print job. There was a printer error, and the frelling thing started announcing the error to the entire office, scaring our receptionist.
I really hate Steve Jobs.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 8:45:24 am PDT #3386 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If they talk to me, and I need to listen, they need to be able to understand me speaking.
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2005 9:14:03 am PDT #3387 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Macs come with a rudimentary voice-recognition thingie. (It only recongnized commands, so you still need to buy software if you want to convert speech to text.)
I really have no use for it, but it's fun to say, "Computer, tell me a joke." And then it does.
le nubian - Jun 15, 2005 9:18:35 am PDT #3388 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Beau has printing software that says: "printing started" and "Printing completed"
I HATE IT. I always look up and think "who is that strange man in my house commenting on printing?"
Gris - Jun 15, 2005 10:53:38 am PDT #3389 of 10003
Hey. New board.
I turned on spoken alerts once. I turned them off five minutes later.
ION, b.org looks cool in Pocket IE. For some reason the user titles are bigger than the notmal text. It's fun.
Eddie - Jun 15, 2005 11:13:27 am PDT #3390 of 10003
Your tag here.
ita wrote:
Next question -- I want to use htaccess to redirect calls
This will do the trick (in subdir/.htaccess):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /rss.xml
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.rss [L,R,NC]
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 11:16:56 am PDT #3391 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Actually, I just went with
redirect /rss/rss.xml >[link]And it looks okay. Is there a client usability difference between the two?
And it looks like I spoke too soon for Bloglines -- is anyone familiar enough with the RSS standard that they can tell me if the file itself is being checked for a last changed time? Or is it bloglines that's working it's own way?
meara - Jun 15, 2005 11:21:17 am PDT #3392 of 10003
Skipping a hundred or more posts to ask: Is there a reason I'd come home and find my TiVo cycling between a grey screen that says "Welcome. Powering up...." and a screen with the TiVo cartoon that says "Almost there! Just a few minutes more..."? Is there something I should do about that? It's been maybe 15 minutes since I got home, and it's entirely possible there was some sort of power failure while I was gone...but I doubt it was coincidentally just a few minutes before I got home! Which means this may have been going on for some time...
Eddie - Jun 15, 2005 11:32:38 am PDT #3393 of 10003
Your tag here.