Long story short my mother needed t0 playback a microphone through the speakers. Should be simple and on Windows Xp it is. But for some strange reason vista does not have the option, some drivers do but not the default Microsoft audio driver. Of course doing this should be simple so I spent at least a good hour finding a solution, it would appear that none exist. I tried googling everything “Force mic loop”, “Force mic feedback”, “vista mic live playback”, “play mic through speakers vista”, “program to playback mic” and yes I did just put that list there in the hopes that Google will get a clue.
Turns out there is no program that does it. So I’ve created my own. It is done in flash and has some minor latency due to the use of flash, but any solution will have a bit of latency and hopefully for your needs it will be good enough.
To run it you have to give it permission to use the mic, it will automatically show you the permission dialog and will start working as soon as you close the dialog.
You can download the file and run it locally should you need to. To do so right click on the following link and select “Save file as”
Download: Warll’s Microphone playback’r
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While checking my gmail one of my favorite features is that little bar which shows news from a selection of websites. Apeerntly someone at Economist.com let a article go live that shouldn’t have.
Headline goes here in “headline” font
Or at least thats the headline. All the article has is the standard “The Economist welcomes your views.” At time of writing there are 27 comments and I must say, these commenters know their archetypes.
The ‘full’ article can be found on the site for now, http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15993648&fsrc=rss , image below the fold for posterity:
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By this I mean haveing the domain folder.example.com be hosted in the FTP folder example.com/folder.
You can do this in the “Add new domain” page by changing the “Web directory” field for the sub-domain “folder.example.com” from “/home/username/folder.example.com” to “/home/username/example.com/folder”
Example screenshot follows.
2009 was a rather dull year for video games as far as my interests are involved. 2010 is shaping up to be the exact oposite. What I’m getting excited about:
- Civilisation 5
- Crysis 2
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Dead Space 2
- Lost Planet 2
Civ V and Fallout should be real treats.
I’ve spent the last week or so exploring Drupal and I must say that it is impressive.
Things I like:
- Backend dosn’t hide options behind menus or other pages
- Strictly enforced coding style
- Theme markup encourages presentation to be removed from data manipulation
- A block system that effectively gives users a ton of widget panels, and everything is placed like a WP widget would be
- A form api that takes care of mundane and verbose html input markup
- A ton of plugins that are rather generic yet well integrated with Drupal allowing for easy adoption and extension.
- A focus on security even if at the cost of higher minimum skill set for usage.
What I dislike:
- code style enforces the use of spaces instead of tab chars, which is positively insane.
In the end I like Drupal and am currently working on a port of the default WordPress Theme.
