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Windows Vista speech recognition rocks!
I have to write up a big assignment but I hurts to type because of RSI.  So I've been talking to my computer for the past couple of hours, dictating my assignment.  It is doing surprisingly well, most voice recognition systems can't understand the kiwi accent.  But Mr. Wallace recognition handles this fine.


I am very impressed, I actually made this post by voice.

I really had to type to logon, and click a mouse ones to activate the post body field. 

Stebet wrote:

Vista for example RTMd on Nov 8th 2006 but wasn't launched until jan 30th 2007 and Scott Guthrie has said that Visual Studio 2008 will be available to MSDN subscribers for some time before launch-day.

I prefer the classic mode in XP. I actually liked vista basic.

But the thing that bugs me about vista is you can't turn cleartype off. Maybe my eyes are funny, but i just can't do cleartype. I remeber someone on a C9 video saying it was to do with colour perception or something. Maybe if there was a way to tune it in the control panel so it agress with my vision it would be okay.

But i found it pretty reasonable to use visually at least. I did need to go back and tweak some of my custom applications (written in java) to make then look right with the new theme.

that plus the DHCP on wireless with linux based DHCP server bug is sorted out that's pretty much all my problems with it resolved

i'm convinced that this would make performance worse.

but you know how reverse psychology works don't you =)

that's insane.

And i thought my old room when i was a kid was bad. I had like 4 computers (PCs) plus an old commodore 64 and an old Acorn A3000 and tons of taken apart radios and various electronic crap.

Services for unix is the answer to computer science students everywhere's linux problems. I no longer have to load up linux in virtual pc. I can do my assignments using visual studio with the services for unix (interix) SDK which is just excellent

No more hacking files because an upgrade my the vpc video display go all funny.

edited to add: i don't have anything against linux per say. I just don't run it on desktop/laptop machines. Only servers.

the next networking protocol should support transperant handoffs to different connections, that would be excellent.

Immagine being able to walk out of wifi range of your home or work place with you laptop and have file transfers, vpn and remote desktop sessions automatically hand off to 3G/UMTS/HSDPA

that would be very cool, though sadly i recognise the difficulty of implimenting something like this.

the only programming i was taught in school was turbo pascal in my last year. They didn't really teach us they just kinda left us to figure it out for ourselves.

I was already doing win32 programming by this stage (i didn't know about .net or C# in those days) so i figured pascal out fairly easiler.

our computer class didn't really teach us any thing. I learnt more about physics and the paranormal in that class than computers

that teacher was weird.

DHCP on wireless should work properly with linux based dhcp servers.

It works fine with a wired network, just not with wireless. It will initally get an IP, then lose it within a few minutes with the event log saying something about an ip address conflict.

The logs on the server show the vista client computer released its IP address and didn't ask for a new one. If you click repair it tries to renew its IP and fails with the logs on the server claiming vista never tried to get an IP.

If you reboot the machine you can connect again.

This doesn't happen under XP with a linux based server. This also doesn't happen with vista and a windows 2003 server based dhcp server.

Given how widespread embedded linux based DSL routers are this affects people who may not even know they have linux on their network.