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I currently have an AGI that calls the Festival text2wave app to write a wav file that my dialplan plays into a call with the Background() command. But the voice sounds terrible: like SAM, the 1980s 6502 voice synthesizer. I tried to slow it down by calling (text2wav -eval "(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4)" -scale 2.0 [...]), but it still sounds like it's talking while sucking down a strawful of spaghetti. How do I install a different voice, to speak basically simple ema...

On 6/8/2015 6:29 PM, Peter wrote: > You can thank Fedora for making that rather pointless change and > breaking that capability. that 'capability' was a holdover of the 1980s when disks were measured in megabytes, and memory in kilobytes, so large file systems were impractical. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

...t;> Let's hope that people who do not know how to use a tool - e.g. >> like a hammer - doesn't use that tool in the first place .... > > that is pretty unrealistic and I don't agree with it anyway. The tool metaphor is realistic. In my experience (which dates back to the 1980s), email ist a powerful tool, and people need to learn how to use it properly, with the appropriate software set. Especially in the area of technical mailing lists I see no reason to cater to dumb MUA software. > Email should be intitive If by "intuitive" you mean "used without e...

Apologies for cross-posting. We''ve been asked to do a job for a client who wants to embrace agile development methodologies. Hurrah! However, our standard contract was written for the 1980s. It is full of phrases like "agreed specification" and "change request procedure" and so on. I was wondering, how do other people get around this in contract forms with their clients? I was thinking of just reverting to a standard consultancy contract, but not sure if t...

I'm converting the "Changelog" files that I have used in the survival package (since the 1980s) to the inst/NEWS.Rd format and a couple of things are not clear from the help page. 1. What should I use for the name: NEWS or survival? 2. My section headers look like \section{Changes in version 2.36-3}{ \itemize{ etc and I get "cannot extract version info from the follow...

Hi, I have a time series of 38 wintertime average snow depths measured at a particular meteorological station. The data appear to undergo a "climate shift" in the early 1980s: before the shift the mean and sd are 152 +/- 58, after the shift 92 +/- 36. The distribution is not normal; there's a hard limit at zero of course and there are outlier years with very high snowfall. I don't feel justified making a log transformation on the data, so I'd rather use d...

...emes.decade$Month, col = extremes.decade$Extreme, cex = 1.2, xlab = "Decade", ylab = "Month", axes = F , pch = 16, seg.col = extremes.decade$Extreme, size = 0.2, seg.lwd =2) axis(side = 1, at = c(6:11), labels = c("","1960s","1970s","1980s","1990s","2000s"), tick = TRUE, line = NA) axis(side = 2, at = c(0:12), labels = c("","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov",&...

<m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Ah. I don't remember if I was using csh, or ksh, and didn't realize about > bash. I *think* I vaguely remember that sh seemed to be more capable than > I remembered. If you like to check what the Bourne Shell did support in the late 1980s, I recommend you to fetch recent Schily tools from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/ compile and install and test "osh". This is the SVr4 Bourne Shell, so you need to take into account what has been added with Svr4: - multibyte character support. In the 1980s, th...

...ace and time reasons, and in the belief that commercially produced CDs when properly treated can be expected to have a very long life. However, I'm now questioning this assumption. I have a 2 CD set of "The Phantom of the Opera" on the Polydor label which I purchased new in the late 1980s. Both discs have always been stored together in the same case and played the same number of times on the same player; in short, they have the same history since pruchase. Both appear visually to be in the same excellent condition. But on my latest playing of them, the second CD has acquired some...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/ That's still several years in the future, of course. I use Mate on all of my machines rather than Gnome or KDE and I'm sure many of you fine folks do the same. But it's interesting nonetheless. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/31/2017 8:04 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I've got an old RAID that I attached to a box. LSI card, and the RAID >> has 12 drives, for a total RAID size of 9.1TB, I think. I started shred >> /dev/sda the Friday before last... and it's still running. Is this >> reasonable for it to be taking this long...? > > not at all

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:38:25AM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Fascinating. As I'd been in Sun OS, and started doing admin work when it > became Solaris, I'd missed that bit. A question: did the license agreement > include payment, or was it just restrictive on distribution? In 1990, when I started using ksh88, it was totally commercial. Binaries were $$$ and source was

...gt; But it's interesting nonetheless. > > I one of the few (?) people who use "none of the above" (meaning all of the > "modern" desktop managers). I use fvwm in MWM mode and have a Tcl/Tk coded > "menu manager" program. My screen looks almost like a 1980s vintage > VaxStation 3000 running DECWindows. Right now on C6 and using as little of > Gnome2 as it will let me (one panel). File Manage set to /bin/true. No > "start" menu nonsense, no desktop icons either, just a fvwm iconbox for > running programs and a 10 element Workspa...

Hello, i want to encrypt my HDD's with GELI (not the root-fs, though). I want to do the encryption without password, just with a key. The key should be stored in a floppy disk, and the read should be read automatically on boot, from the floppy. There is a problem here, because GELI initializes _before_ mounting the disks from /etc/fstab (for obvious reasons, of course). So GELI is not able

...; in the sense of being > able to support multiple different languages efficiently. After having > done some work on this, I now believe that this is the case Very cool! I haven't worked on a system with good concurrent garbage collection since using the Intel iAPX-432 back in the mid-1980s. It used Dijkstra's concurrent garbage collection algorithm, which is a mark-sweep collector with three colors. The 432 architecture inherently divided the representation of all objects into two segments, of which one could only contain access descriptors (pointers), and the other could only...

On 06/08/2015 09:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/8/2015 6:29 PM, Peter wrote: >> You can thank Fedora for making that rather pointless change and >> breaking that capability. > > that 'capability' was a holdover of the 1980s when disks were > measured in megabytes, and memory in kilobytes, so large file > systems were impractical. gee, you sure about that? was tha 8 bit or 17 bit? (BWG) -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! in a...

...but I sign my name to a certificate that gets > stuck on the outside of the server, meaning I, personally, am responsible > for the sanitization of the drive(s). the DoD multipass erase procedure is long obsolete and deprecated. It was based on MFM and RLL technology prevalent in the mid 1980s. NISPOM 2006-5220 replaced it in 2006, and says "DESTROY CONFIDENTIAL/SECRET INFORMATION PHYSICALLY". http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16130-The-Urban-Legend-of-Multipass-Hard-Disk-Overwrite.html http://www.dss.mil/documents/odaa/nispom2006-5220.pdf from that blog,... > For...

...the same. > > But it's interesting nonetheless. I one of the few (?) people who use "none of the above" (meaning all of the "modern" desktop managers). I use fvwm in MWM mode and have a Tcl/Tk coded "menu manager" program. My screen looks almost like a 1980s vintage VaxStation 3000 running DECWindows. Right now on C6 and using as little of Gnome2 as it will let me (one panel). File Manage set to /bin/true. No "start" menu nonsense, no desktop icons either, just a fvwm iconbox for running programs and a 10 element Workspace switcher. An...

...ple who do not know how to use a tool - e.g. > >> like a hammer - doesn't use that tool in the first place .... > > > > that is pretty unrealistic and I don't agree with it anyway. > > The tool metaphor is realistic. In my experience (which dates back to > the 1980s), email ist a powerful tool, and people need to learn how to > use it properly, with the appropriate software set. Especially in the > area of technical mailing lists I see no reason to cater to dumb MUA > software. Especially in a technical mailing list about email software! -- hendrik

To R-users I have been using R for many years and I am very happy with it. One thing puzzles me. Graphic postscript files tend to become quite big, much bigger than corresponding splus postscript files. Does anybody have a hint to avoid this? best regards Helgi -- Helgi Tomasson FAX: 354-552-6806 University of Iceland