Having a dictionary is just a small step in the big process. After obtaining the dictionary in a usable format, the data has to be uploaded to a (My)SQL database, because the flat file is not really usefull for individual lookups and the intention is to have word-splitted word-sound file. In addition the individual sylables […]
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There are different ways to connect to Microsoft SQL server and they all have their own advantages. For administrative purposes the SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) is one of the most common ways. It offers GUI with lots of functionalities directly exposed to the GUI. Great for advanced tasks and also for inexperienced users with
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part of the Dictate page series In order to be able to perform different tasks, there is need to have dictionary in advance, that contains the words, words splitted to sylables and information if sound files are already generated for them. So the first task is to get the dictionary. As this project focuses on
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The web extensions that are currently shown on this page can be used to start custom actions in the user’s browsers. As currently only single words can be used for dictation can be used, there is a need for improvement- to be able to set simple sentences or groups of sentences as task to be
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Sometimes it is required to delete files older than a date or older by age. Powershell is excelent tool to perform this. Below is a simple script to delete files by age: despite the comments in the script, some details might need additional clarification. It is advisable to add the starting folder as variable for
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The simplest approach to give make a client get data from another server is to add it in the HTML (link rel for CSS, script src for JS, img src for pictures, AJAX to another server, etc). This makes it a deal between the client and the other server no man in the middle involved
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Detecting bots and getting rid of them As an extension to the article “Banning impolite bots (1)” here are some additional ideas for banning bots. One simple approach to get rid of bots (or other malicious actors) is to detect them as soon as possible and prevent their access. Although some botnets play as a
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Sometimes multiple IP addresses are required (either for test or to really separate communication channel of applications). If a setup is expected to span on multiple computers, but the proof of concet or initial testing is performed a single PC, then multiple IPs for same PC is usually chosen (besides multiple complete VMs or containers).
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The cooling is (usually) the noisiest component in the computers. Is it possible to cool completely passively? Yes. It is, but usually is not done, because large heatsinks are required (assuming that not ultra low power CPU is used). What about passive that switches to active- it is done pretty frequently. Almost all laptops switch
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Despite the XML and HTML similarities, they are really different and parsing them should be approached differently. Let us take following example HTML/XML code As this is valid XML it can be parsed using The browsers open it and display it correctly (if the extension is HTM(L)). So all is nice, but what if the
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