• Archive for January, 2009

    Preventing lock screen from appearing after you’ve remoted into a host through Remote Desktop

    by  • January 12, 2009 • htpc, remote desktop • 1 Comment

    I’ve been trying to perfect my HTPC setup recently, the latest addition being a Logitech Harmony 555 remote which lets me control all my devices from one remote control. It’s based on activities like ‘Watch Sky’,‘Play XBOX 360’ and ‘HTPC’ and switches the appropriate inputs on my TV, amp, and other devices, and assigns the [...]

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    Creating your own custom Grammar, and filtering recognition based on confidence

    by  • January 8, 2009 • .net, c#, grammar, speech recognition • 0 Comments

    This follows on from an earlier post, Speech Recognition and the System.Speech namespace, where I was trying to find out roughly what the the topic of a given set of unannotated lectures was. As expected, using the DictationGrammar didn’t help too much, in fact some of the results from the recogniser were pretty funny! So [...]

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    301 Redirects with Plesk

    by  • January 8, 2009 • hosting, htaccess • 4 Comments

    I’ve just recently signed up with a new web host (Weycrest) to take over the hosting of my blog, and they utilise the Plesk control panel for administering the thing. I was with Dreamhost before and I had created several sub-domains of paulkiddie.com that act to redirect to another page but I couldnt for the [...]

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