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Comment on Sudoku solving with Python and SAT by Pau Espin Pedrol

Pau Espin Pedrol — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:30:36 +0000

Ei com mola!!! Mentres era a classe jo també havia pensat que seria divertit programar-ho, però havia pensat també en fer el sat solver jo mateix, i això requeria bastant més temps, i ja tinc prou coses a fer xD

Comment on You no longer have an excuse not to look at Python Snippets! by oliver

oliver — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:38:43 +0000

Wow, this is great! Now the snippets are even available in Google – try searching for “pygtk treeview snippet”.

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by phillw

phillw — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:32:48 +0000

Hi,
sorry not been back to you — There was a project called FireVox that worked with the FireFox browser. Very sadly, it appears to have lapsed support with FF 3.6, and non forthcoming. However, the guy who did it all has all the code available to any who wish to use it. Don’t know if you and friends would be interested in that sort of project.

If you head over to the Assistive Technology Forum they would be more than happy to up-date you, else I can put you onto the mailing list for things like Orca so you can see what is currently going on & where things are heading.

People interested in such things are always welcome.

Phill.

Comment on Zeitgeist Data-Source Registry by Emmanuele Bassi

Emmanuele Bassi — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:08:02 +0000

what do you need in GtkRecentManager to be more detailed? if you need more meta-data I can amend the spec and add it. just poke me on IRC (nick: ebassi, on #gnome-hackers and #gtk+).

Comment on Confession by Adrien Partenaire

Adrien Partenaire — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:51:51 +0000

Well you did the right thing mate! Except that you should have joined the Suse family. This one is far more entertaining and fancy. I guess you will realise sooner or later. Best wishes!

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by phillw

phillw — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:17:33 +0000

XHTML Strict, requires the alt tag for images (it is a ‘may have’ in other variants) For Tables, head over to http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-tables.html Specifically http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-tables.html#non-visual-rendering

I’m using the ’scope’ variant and not the ‘headers / id’ variant. I haven’t put a summary into my tables, as the title of the table is explanation enough and I’ve had enough ‘fun’ keeping the XHTML Strict Certification whilst building and echo’ing the various table commands needed and meaningful alt tags in PHP from a MySQL database !!!

Rule508 can be found over here –> http://www.hisoftware.com/uaccess/Index.html

The logic of how the reader would parse a table seems straight forward enough, but I’m not a proficient enough coder to even attempt such a thing !!

If you’re using FireFox as a browser, there is an add-on called Web Developer, that will give you checking by w3c of css and (x)html etc. It also includes a tester for Rul508. (aka “Cynthia Says” as it browses the web page like an aural browser would & checks to see if the things required are there) – It’s quite a bit to take on board at first, but does not actually mean a whole lot of re-writing if you’re using XHTML-Strict to begin with.

If there’s anything else I can do to further help you, please feel free to e-mail me.

Regards,

Phill.

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by RainCT

RainCT — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:55:27 +0000

@ phillw:

Any pointers on where I can read more about that?

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by phillw

phillw — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:25:32 +0000

Yes, it is working fine. Now that it is in the Ubuntu Repositry, I will wait and see if anyone has a problem getting it from there. I removed the whole of the ~trunk directory after using Synaptic to get it – It’s all still working :-) (Still the same error message), all the files seems to have installed okay (e.g. the man entry has been made) – So, it looks good to go !!
Nice Application. Now, for your next trick … getting it to read a web page using the Rule508 rules for image & table descriptions – I’m coding a web-site to that set of rules, we do really need a Ubuntu (Debian) Web-Page reader, so, if you ever feel the urge … you can test it out on the site I’ve written :-D

Kind Regards,

Phill.

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by RainCT

RainCT — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:36:02 +0000

@ phillw:

Thanks for the publicity :).

So is it working now for you? If so I think you can ignore those messages for now. It’s some problem with eSpeak and PulseAudio…

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by phillw

phillw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:55:06 +0000

Oh, by the way, I put a mention in on the Ubuntu Assistive Technology forum, it’s over here –> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1064210&page=2

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by phillw

phillw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:47:20 +0000

Installed alsa-oss, invoking as this
phillw@piglet:~/trunk/espeak-gui-0.2$ aoss ./espeak-gui

Same error message. Repeated the four times.

Phill.

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by RainCT

RainCT — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:36:55 +0000

@ phillw:

Uhm, try running it with “aoss” (ie. “aoss espeak-gui” instead of just “espeak-gui”; you’ll need to install the alsa-oss package first).

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by phillw

phillw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:32:59 +0000

KEWL !! – It works. I started it from the command line (couldn’t see it the menu system any where, but I can always add it). When I started it from terminal I got bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

Repeated four times.

I look forward to having a ‘play’ with it.

Thanks for all the help in getting it set up,

Phill.

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by RainCT

RainCT — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:31:21 +0000

@ phillw:

Sorry, seems like I missed that comment. You just need to install python-distutils-extra.

Comment on espeak-gui 0.2 by phillw

phillw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:20:43 +0000

Hi, have you got any further tracing the error reported January 24, 2010 at 20:49 – Thanks,

Phill.

Comment on Confession by Andy

Andy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:17:23 +0000

I did the same and I’m happy here. The water is fresh and cool upstream.

Comment on Confession by Jonathan Carter

Jonathan Carter — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:54:20 +0000

Nothing wrong with doing both! I’ve always wanted to be a proper Debian contributor and I’ll probably step up a bit there in the future and actually do some stuff :)

Comment on Confession by norsetto

norsetto — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:41:48 +0000

I think I will join you soon, at least as soon as I find the courage to upgrade to squeeze ;-)

Comment on Confession by RainCT

RainCT — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:57:40 +0000

@ NoOne:

Yeah. I just couldn’t come up with a better metaphor.

@ Debian, Cubells:

Thanks :).

Comment on Confession by cubells

cubells — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:37:30 +0000

I think you have took a good decision… Seriously.