Archive for the ‘Questions’ Category

Facebook Error: What’s the Cause?

Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Elliot

 
Errors while loading page from application
Runtime errors:
Javascript parse error, unexpected: RCURLY
There are still a few kinks Facebook and the makers of Brain Tuner are trying to iron out. We appreciate your patience as we try to fix these issues. Your problem has been logged - if it persists, please come back in a few days. [...]

Amazing Foresight - Nicholas Negroponte

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Elliot

Take a look at this excerpt from an interview he did with Wired Magazine, November 1995!
Wired: What have you changed your mind about in the last five years?
Negroponte:
Open-architecture television. Five years ago, I thought TVs would be the home information appliance. I was wrong.

Wired: Why do you think computers are [...]

I hate Intel

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Elliot

They ripped off OLPC’s idea, and they’re a monopoly…
But we have no other choice.
And, of course, Microsoft sucks:

This year, Mr. Gates announced in China that Microsoft would offer developing countries a $3 software package that includes Windows, a student version of Microsoft Office and educational programs. Mr. Negroponte said the move was a direct response [...]

The Asus Eee PC and the OLPC XO-1

Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Elliot

Small is back!
I remember many years ago I’d spent hours reading about the Toshiba Libretto. It was maybe 5 years ago. I would use Google and find everything about it I could. I’d read everything I could find on every fansite.
I searched for it on eBay and went on forums to find people who were [...]

Today I was browsing through old related posts in my personal blog, when I noticed that it was showing question marks (?) instead of certain accented characters. I’ve seen this kind of problem before, and the culprit was the character encoding. I could force the browser to display the question marks properly, but I didn’t [...]

vBulletin: List All Members Who Have Disabled Admin Emails?

Posted on October 21st, 2007 by Elliot

In vBulletin, is there any way to list all members who have disabled receiving email from Administrators?

Sorry, there was an error logging you in. 302

Posted on October 13th, 2007 by Elliot

I’m getting this error on Revver. Any ideas?

Another day, another frozen iMac

Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Elliot

I did some more research and these pages stood out.

Killing a GUI mess
Mac OS X 10.4.9 update causing ugly crashes?
Recover from WindowServer crashes using one machine
OS X Lockup with Command-Tab
C2D Weird Locking Up, Freezing, Hanging
Instant Review: Aluminum iMac

Any fixes out there?
Update: I’ve spent a lot of time chatting with Apple Support and finally got transferred [...]

Speech recognition on wav file

Posted on September 18th, 2007 by Elliot

I have a wav file of people talking. I want to turn it into text, automatically. Is there any way to do this?
The closest I got with many, many Google searches is Wikipedia’s List of speech recognition projects. Still I couldn’t find a suitable product that did what I wanted.