Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
October 28, 2009
May 27, 2009
Thanks, Calendar
I'm not sure if I should be confused or flattered that Google thinks I speak all the above languages, despite the fairly clear linguistic limitations set up in my user settings. (Update: the problem was quite temporary; not 30 seconds later, everything appears in order.)
In other news: I've been spending an unhealthy amount of time in the Real-Time lab hacking away at an ARM context switch. As a result, our kernel now has a successful kernel exit along with a valid kernel entry point in the jump table. Unfortunately, all hell (well, 16 registers of hell, at least, plus or minus a few mode-specific versions of said registers) breaks loose upon re-entry; we're hoping to resolve this by today so that we can cap off this part of the kernel spec and get on with real life.
April 1, 2009
March 12, 2009
Vox Populi
Not even voicemail can escape Big G, it seems - Google Voice, built off Grand Central's technology, will transform your voice messages into email transcripts. In the era of mobile computing this could be a wise move indeed, although it will certainly enrage privacy advocates.
At heart, this is a fairly basic application of speech recognition software; simply strap together a recognition engine, a mailing script, and something to monitor your phone and you've got a working replacement. Replace the phone with Skype (or, better yet, open-source equivalent Ekiga) and the monitoring step becomes a great deal easier - you could even use it to archive all your phone calls. For the paranoid, you could toss in an extra pass through PGP and skip the mailing script, archiving instead to a TrueCrypt'd partition. (Of course, you'd have to encrypt your calls in the first place.)
At heart, this is a fairly basic application of speech recognition software; simply strap together a recognition engine, a mailing script, and something to monitor your phone and you've got a working replacement. Replace the phone with Skype (or, better yet, open-source equivalent Ekiga) and the monitoring step becomes a great deal easier - you could even use it to archive all your phone calls. For the paranoid, you could toss in an extra pass through PGP and skip the mailing script, archiving instead to a TrueCrypt'd partition. (Of course, you'd have to encrypt your calls in the first place.)
February 11, 2009
NaNoWriMo 2008
Last term, I had the immense pleasure of participating in NaNoWriMo - that hallowed annual event wherein would-be writers consent to a month of grueling lexical vomitus in exchange for, well, nothing (unless you count pride and a sense of accomplishment as material.)
My tool of choice? Google Docs. Despite some slowdown on the sluggish university lab terminals - especially towards the end of the month - the experience was relatively smooth. The greatest benefit, however, was being able to easily share it with friends and have them track the development of the story. Try doing that with MS Word. Anyways, here it is.
My tool of choice? Google Docs. Despite some slowdown on the sluggish university lab terminals - especially towards the end of the month - the experience was relatively smooth. The greatest benefit, however, was being able to easily share it with friends and have them track the development of the story. Try doing that with MS Word. Anyways, here it is.
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