I just listened to this short 1888 recording by Thomas Edison and I must admit it sent shivers down my spine. I never suspected to ever hear such old recordings.
“This spoken-word recording made circa late October 1888 is believed to be the oldest surviving recording of Thomas Edison’s voice. The informal message whimsically describes an imagined trip “around the world on the phonograph,” by Cunard steamer from New York City to Liverpool, through Europe and Asia, giving specific ships, railroads, cities, and points of interest en route.” source
I was digging for “fresh” information to use for the next Cogitateurs-Agitateurs event, a Salon du Livre Libre, which I’ll have to get back to very soon. Let me know if you have any interests for books, literature, copyright laws, the public domain or the Creative Commons.
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Robin: 9 heures au lit
Google just unveiled its Norway search site, and that prompted me to seek out if yes.no was taken - and it is of course.
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Robin: 8 heures au lit
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Prompted by Mark’s question, Speex is a codec from the vorbis family. It’s designed specifically for voice/speech and thus generally gives a smaller file size than an mp3 or ogg vorbis file. I use ogg123 on gnu/linux; for ms windows I was using foobar 2000, but ms media player with the right DirectShow filters will do the trick; finally on a Mac with OS X 10 you can use the darwin ports, QuickTime components for iTunes, fink or collect a bounty if you swing that way.
Ogg, Speex, Vorbis, what’s the difference?
Ogg is a container format for holding multimedia data. Vorbis is an audio codec that uses Ogg to store its bit-streams as files, hence the name Ogg Vorbis. Speex also uses the Ogg format to store its bit-streams as files, so technically they would be “Ogg Speex” files (I prefer to call them just Speex files). One difference with Vorbis however, is that Speex is less tied with Ogg. Actually, if what you do is Voice over IP (VoIP), you don’t need Ogg at all. – from the FAQ
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Robin: 13 heures au lit
Just a little blogshares experiment to see if I can influence these prices in my favour.
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Robin: 18 heures au lit
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Mon numéro d’usager GNU/Linux
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Robin: 18h30 au lit
Observateur assidu de la flore et de la faune gnu/internet depuis une quinzaine d’annes. S’est fait pote dans les bars, cafs jusqu’ la radio pendant quatre ou cinq ans. Ensuite programmeur chez quelques PME pour s’teindre dans le feu aprs quelques startups infructueux. Depuis plus d’un an, il se consacre entirement tout ce qui touche l’informatique libre: associations, meetups, confrences, coopratives, sites web et le dveloppement d’applications.
Plus rcemment, le droit d’auteur, les lois internationales sur la proprit intellectuelle, le domaine public, la vie prive et le droit l’information sont tous des sujets qui le proccupent et qui l’veillent.
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Robin: 10 heures au lit
Comment ça marche, une encyclopédie d’informatique libre, sous licence GNU Free Documentation. Merci à Jean-François Pillou.
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Robin: 9h30 au lit
J’ai un gros backlog de mes uptimes - ça va défiler assez rapidement dans les prochains jours - je vais reprendre mes linklogs parce qu’il s’y cache des trucs très très intéressants!
Si vous avez des suggestions à me faire sur la façon de traiter ces données, je suis à l’écoute.
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Robin: 17h30 au lit
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Not the element 111, but a new OS. It’s main reason of existence is to create more interconnections between its various components. I’m only mentionning it because me and a friend, Yannick Delbecque, have been giving this topic a lot of thought. Why can’t I use vim for a textarea (I’m aware you can already do this specific example with mozex) and why do all applications have to use all these application specific widgets?
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This memo contains a snapshot of the state of standardization of protocols used in the Internet as of July 22, 2004. It lists official protocol standards and Best Current Practice RFCs; it is not a complete index to the RFC series. See my slightly edited version of RFC 3700.
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Robin: 14h30 au lit
Corps incandescents
Qui s’enclument en se teignant
Ecchymoses et mots d’amours
Sous la lune cisaillée
S’échangent jusqu’au jour
Lever de l’astre d’or
Décence des corps
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