| Does Voicepad really recognize your voice? |
| I think I got a virus! |
| What is wrong with AOL? |
| It say I got a page fault, why? |
| How do I keep from being disconnected during a download? |
Kurzweil's been the leader for a long time in voice recognition technology. But they're also used to getting BIg bucks for their products and not used to dealing with consumers. They've just announced they're not planning to upgrade this product to support Win98. Both Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred 3.0 and the latest edition of Via Voice have been cutting out niches for themselves in various parts of the VR field. It's important to remember that neither really is the "Star Trek" sorta thing, where one can REALLY speak naturally and expect to be understood. But both can do parts of some important jobs with respect to using computers. Commanding the machine to do things is different from dictating a letter. Try them. See how far you can take it. I myself hope to lower my typing by about 35%. I am still waiting for delivery of the software, so I can't report back yet. However, you might email cherbear, a seller here who uses the Kurzweil product and see if she's got better insights to share.
The good thing about VR is that more companies are working on this as a viable form of interface with the home PC than almost anything else currently. The next 2-3 years should see dramatic improvements. One thing to keep in mind is that the better your computer (fast CPU and lots of RAM) the quicker the VR program will work. Anything bellow Pentium or 32 MB ram will be slow or will not work well.
The GOOD stuff still costs $5,000, but experienced users can do at least half their dictation with the cheapo consumer stuff. BTW, IBM has always been very active with disAbility issues, you might contact the nearest big IBM office and ask for a referral. If you scout a bit, you can usually find a really nice IBM rep who'll dig through company everything to help you. You might end up with free software on a "beta test" basis. IBM employees can be very helpful on a personal basis.
Unless the virus tells you its there with a nasty little message, you wont. The best way to beat a virus is not to get it in the first place. There are many good resources on the net that can help you combat and learn about viruses. For example Trend Micro has an online virus scan that you can do right now. We feel right now two of the best anti-virus software packages out there are Norton Anti-Virus and Thunderbyte Anti-Virus. Both of these packages are affordable and easy to set up and use.
F-PROT /HARD /ALL /DISINF /REPORT=C:FPROT.RPT
F-PROT will be used for the remainder of the example, but only as an example. Each of the other products uses its own command structure but can be used the same way.
If F-PROT reports drive C is missing a virus such as Monkey which hides or encrypts the partition table is probable. Repeat without the /REPORT command on the command line. Do not run FDISK/MBR if this happens.
devicehigh=c:\FPROT\VIRSTOP.EXE /WARM /BOOT /COPY
AOL is an inferior ISP, I spend a lot of time helping people with this provider. They bundle their browser with their dial-up software and it is difficult to use Internet Explorer or Netscape with their connection.(it can be done) They continually kick you off line when your data flow stops for a few minutes. Their accounts are impossible to multi-use with and due to the popularity, you are continually bombarded with advertisements and unwanted updates etc.
For a fee you can get a program called "stay connected" to help with being kicked off.
I would suggest you check out Internet America (1-800-beageek). or Flashnet. These ISPs have stand alone dial-up connection software with which you can use superior browsers. There is way more versatility here to accomplish the type of accounts and connections you want.
First of all, your download might not be completely dead, but just stalled, and it might recover after several minutes. This happens occasionally with large files over "noisy' phone lines. So the first suggestion would be to do nothing and wait, as long as your dial-up connection is still on.
If your download does not resume after 10-15 minutes, or if your dial-up connection was dropped, you will have to restart the download. But before doing that, do some housekeeping:
Make sure your temp directory is empty. To find out what is your temp directory, type the word SET at the DOS command line. You will see a line that says "Set temp=" Locate that directory and delete all files in it.
Make sure nothing important is in there. If you have to move those files to another directory so you can make an empty TEMP dir.
Also make sure no other application is active when you download a file. Now try downloading again like this: Go the Netscape download page [http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/upgrade.cgi ], for Communicator, and start the download process again.
To keep connection from timing out, start DOS window, and type ping -t wwwus.netscape.com (128 bit version) The reason this works is that some ISP servers(you know who) tend to disconnect users after certain amount of time of inactivity, and during a pause in the download it might think the connection is idle and throw you out. The "ping -t" will constantly send a ping to the server, thus assuring it that the connection is active. If all else fails, try running the FTP command from the MS-DOS prompt window.
The reason I say it needs an empty TEMP file is because there are a few modem config. backup files it will try to put there. If there is already
The interrupt that occurs when software attempts to read from or write to a virtual memory location that is marked "not present." The mapping hardware of a virtual memory system maintains status information about every page in the virtual address space. A page either is mapped onto a physical address or is not present in physical memory. When a read or write to an unmapped virtual address is detected, the memory management hardware generates the page fault interrupt. The operating system must respond to the page fault by swapping in the data for the page and updating the status information in the memory management unit.
Try adjusting the size or location of the swap file (virtual memeory). I have mine manually set at 3 times the size of the physical memory. Also put the swap file on a different drive than Win95. Give it a try anyway. If it doesn't help you can always reset the swap file back to default settings. There are so many causes for invalid page faults that it is nearly impossible to say this or that might be the problem. It could be software or hardware. Try reinstalling the offending program that causes the error if you want to.
Here is a tip that may help you, I don't know your level of computer expertise, I consider this fairly advanced. You can have Better Caching Performance with Win95 by making the following change. Goto Control Panel - System Tab - File system - change the Typical Role of the Machine to Network server, then apply changes. Instead of rebooting your PC, run Regedit and goto to this key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\FS Templates\Server\. Edit the Namecache and pathcache to these binary values: NameCache - a9 0a 00 00 PathCache - 40 00 00 00. These values are actually reversed before you edit the changes. Exit Regedit and reboot. If you do not understand this post, DO NOT attempt it. FYI