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When PCs were easy

I’ve grown soft. I fully expected to, in a single evening, update my motherboard and CPU. I wasn’t doing anything crazy: I got an Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, with new memory and an AMD Barton 2500+ CPU. And it doesn’t work with my newest hard drive. It will boot, it runs, but I get a […]
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(Singing) Voice Synthesis

An article in the New York Times (Could I Get That Song in Elvis, Please?) introduces a new technology called “Vocaloid” that makes use of a singers performed phonemes to replicate his or her voice. This process is referred to as making voice “fonts” and while they only have two so far, the article suggests […]
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Marketing geniuses

OK, I’ll have a more substantive post up later, but I was just running through the Toshiba technical support site and ran into the ad pictured here. The only thing I have done is cut off the right side of the ad, which was entirely blank. I thought, “That’s an interesting Linux ad.” When I […]
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Found it

Interesting ad copy: As the traditional structures of media explode, there will be a tool to gather the fallout, organize it, and send it out with your personal touch. Experience it now with the Nokia 7700 media device. Something is about to happen… (via Dash.)
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