Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-30 Thread Alan Bell
this project seems quite active http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/ and has packages for Ubuntu 10.04 in a ppa I have not tried it yet, but it would be interesting to see how well it works for people. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-30 Thread Liam Proven
On 30 June 2010 16:43, silner wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:31:32 +0100, Roy Jamison wrote: > >> I have found Dragon NS to be quite surprisingly accurate after 10-15 >> minutes of training, so I don't think the perfect model is too far away, >> at least for closed-source payware. > > Someone tol

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 Wireless Toshiba Portege PP041E

2010-06-30 Thread Daniel Case
Hiya Dave Have you checked the restricted drivers? You can also use lspci and repost to let us know what wifi card you have in there. You may also want to re-title this, as google has declared it "spam" for me...and not many people check there spam boxes Dan On 28 June 2010 20:20, wrote: > Com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 2 weeks until Ubuntu in Business event!

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Rowson
> Hi, > > Just a quick note to say if you haven't already collared a co-worker > and ordered a ticket for the Ubuntu in Business event then you'd > better hurry. There's currently only 32 tickets left for the event on > 13th July in London. > > See the site for more details! > > http://ubuntuinbusi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Init Script fun

2010-06-30 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/06/10 12:16, Rob Beard wrote: > Yep possibly, it's a little bit frustrating not being able to see the > bootup messages :-) You can see the bootup messages, if you mean what I think you mean. When you first switch on, after the BIOS screen, you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-30 Thread Ashley Whetter
I saw dragon ns being demonstrated at the Gadget Show Live and it worked perfectly for the 2 pages of text I saw him dictate and his voice was neither particularly high nor low. It's the best speech recognition I've ever seen and it's a shame that it doesn't even work too well under wine. Gadget30

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

2010-06-30 Thread silner
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:31:32 +0100, Roy Jamison wrote: > I have found Dragon NS to be quite surprisingly accurate after 10-15 > minutes of training, so I don't think the perfect model is too far away, > at least for closed-source payware. Someone told me, a while a go I must admit, that Dragon NS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ***Regading your email to Dell - incident # 16808254***

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Drake
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 16:09 +0530, raj_mo...@dell.com wrote: > Thank you for your email. We are still waiting for the update regarding your > proposals and will contact you once we have the update. It seems a while since I heard from you. I just wondered if there is any progress. Kind regards,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Need some Routers

2010-06-30 Thread Roy Jamison
Sounds like a misinformed student! I'll make sure to correct him on that next time I see him ;) (He's not exactly the brightest potato in the field lol) On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:45 +0100, Dan Attwood wrote: > On a lighter note, Mid-Kent College in Gillingham uses linux > servers >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 2 weeks until Ubuntu in Business event!

2010-06-30 Thread Alan Bell
Bill Quinn wrote: > Al > > Great to see the event is nearly a sell out with 2 weeks left to go. How > many people registered? We'll be along with some collateral to Support > Ubuntu in Business. > > Bill > Hi Bill, I don't think we want attendees handing out leaflets as such, it could get messy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Need some Routers

2010-06-30 Thread Dan Attwood
> > On a lighter note, Mid-Kent College in Gillingham uses linux servers > with Moodle on, says who? I'm working to move them to Ubuntu but at the moment they are on Windows. Oddly the main drive to shift them is that Mahara doesn't play nicely on IIS and I really want rid of the Xampp set-ups I'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Need some Routers

2010-06-30 Thread Barry Drake
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:12 +0100, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > I need to setup a network (wire and WiFi) in a school but they have £0 > budget and was wondering if any of you have not used routers/switches I have three wired hubs (or are they switches - I don't remember the difference). I was goin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Need some Routers

2010-06-30 Thread Roy Jamison
Linux is not freeware, it is FOSS, please make sure you understand the differences here, especially if you are trying to "sell" it to others :P On a lighter note, Mid-Kent College in Gillingham uses linux servers with Moodle on, and moodle is packaged in the Ubuntu repositories so it is already th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Need some Routers

2010-06-30 Thread Rob Beard
On 30/06/10 14:12, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > Hi > I need to setup a network (wire and WiFi) in a school but they have £0 > budget and was wondering if any of you have not used routers/switches (I > was thinking of old ISP supplied ones, those you do not know what to do > with once you switch to a

[ubuntu-uk] OT: Need some Routers

2010-06-30 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Hi I need to setup a network (wire and WiFi) in a school but they have £0 budget and was wondering if any of you have not used routers/switches (I was thinking of old ISP supplied ones, those you do not know what to do with once you switch to a new ISP, but other will also be very welcome) and othe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 2 weeks until Ubuntu in Business event!

2010-06-30 Thread Bill Quinn
Al Great to see the event is nearly a sell out with 2 weeks left to go. How many people registered? We'll be along with some collateral to Support Ubuntu in Business. Bill -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 2 weeks until Ubuntu in Business event!

2010-06-30 Thread pmgazz
I sent the publicity out to voluntary sector networks. Paula On 30/06/10 11:26, Alan Pope wrote: Hi, Just a quick note to say if you haven't already collared a co-worker and ordered a ticket for the Ubuntu in Business event then you'd better hurry. There's currently only 32 tickets left for th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Init Script fun

2010-06-30 Thread Rob Beard
On 30/06/10 08:43, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 29 June 2010 22:59, Rob Beard wrote: >> Thanks Al, >> >> I managed to get it working. I had to add the --user and then the >> username the process was running under to stop it. Basically it now >> starts the process as root, then changes to a differe

[ubuntu-uk] 2 weeks until Ubuntu in Business event!

2010-06-30 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, Just a quick note to say if you haven't already collared a co-worker and ordered a ticket for the Ubuntu in Business event then you'd better hurry. There's currently only 32 tickets left for the event on 13th July in London. See the site for more details! http://ubuntuinbusiness.eventbrite.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Init Script fun

2010-06-30 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 29 June 2010 22:59, Rob Beard wrote: > Thanks Al, > > I managed to get it working.  I had to add the --user and then the > username the process was running under to stop it.  Basically it now > starts the process as root, then changes to a different user. > > All seems to be working now when I