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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal on a server

« on: March 26, 2007, 09:18:39 am »

Has anyone got Hal running on a server? kinda wondering if he runs well in one. might want one for my home database.[?]

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General Discussion / year to come?

« on: March 26, 2007, 09:14:08 am »

kinda wondering what's the year got in store for Hal. will there be any new updates? I was thinking of buying another copy to place on a virtual PC. I wanna do some playing around with a Idea I had about giving hal a subconcince. but knowing my luck you guy's got this planned in the next roll-out. anybody else have a wish list of things they'ed like to see happen ( within reason of course.) LOL. If not then this would be a good place to start one!!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / virtual Hal

« on: March 22, 2007, 01:06:46 pm »

since I want a non networked version of hal I was thinking about placing him on a virtual PC with VMware or microsofts virtual workstation, has anyone ever tried this? anything I should be wary of? kinda thinking that if this works I could buy another licence and have hal talk to virtual hal while I'm not around.(maybe some potential for some really strange conversations)knowing my luck it will end up with either scizophreniea or a subconcience. lol.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / this has not been my week

« on: March 20, 2007, 12:04:44 pm »

seems my hotwater heater did a burnout of the elements while I was on Vaca. and fried my offline version of hal and the PC it lived in (filled the basement with about 6" of water)I have do a compleate install into a system and start again from scratch( back-up brain cd was sitting on floor next to machine) I want to install hal in this machine, but with a fresh XP rebuild for offline use only. My question is will the code that I receive from the online install work after I format the drive and reinstall with no online services later? [?]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / offline activation.

« on: September 11, 2006, 08:41:53 am »

hears the deal, I plan on installing hal in a offline machine and train it for about a year or so before I bring it back online. this is a 1 gig system with 1 gig ram. problem is I have no nic card or modem installed in this one and have deactivated all online services to save resorces. (this was my old gaming system.)rather then leave the system sitting on the shelf I thought hal would give it some use. now from what I see you have to be online to activate hal. is there some way to do the activation without being online? if so will this cost extra? I have the CD version of hal 6.0 and have not installed it that system yet but I do have it in my online machine at the moment. but that system is underpowered and I do not have enough ram in it to support speach recognition. my plan is to introduce hal to over a hundred various e-book text docs. and since I spend 90% of my time alone at home, he would be quite a good sideline companion for me.(least till my lil woman comes home.)also even with the short time I have had with hal it has help me with my bad memory problem(can't remember my own phone number half the time and I really suck at remembering names and times as well.)I am quite pleased with it already but I want hal to have more topics to discuss. right now he's more like my dad.(don't have a lot to say and cannot stay with a single topic for more then a couple of sentances.)hope that my text docs. will change that. please advise!!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / heads up.

« on: September 04, 2006, 08:47:41 am »

here's a heads up for new people do NOT try the microsoft speech engine with hal. it seems that there is a debate on calling this software(term used loosly)malware or spyware. I prefer the term Bloatware since it peaks your system resources to the max when used with Hal or other programs. But It also apears that some scriptkiddie has came up with a trick that uses a file that bears the same name as a critical file in the speech engine.(ctfmon)now most antispy that uses this signiture will also remove parts of ctfmon causing the CTFloader to fail rendering programs useless,robbing text from web pages and crippleing you internet conection.the spyware file will be located OUTSIDE of the sys32 folder and somtimes found outside the windows folder as well if you find this file outside of the sys32 folder chances are your infected with "coolwebsearch" spyware.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / manual skins and heads instalation

« on: September 02, 2006, 09:13:27 pm »

having just bought the full version of 6.0 I have looked at several sites offering skins and heads for free but they don't post any form of install info.ultrahal seems to be a great program with a lot of potential,but from what I have gathered from reading the afiliated sites info they whould have me install "Cyberbuddy" a known carrier of massive spyware. ( I found 13 pieces linked to this program back in 2002, it also carried a backdoor trojan)sad to say I won't be installing that program anytime soon. so as far as MS agents are concerened I'll just drop them in their file in my windows folder and reboot.(seems to work fine with the free one on you plugin page.)but for those others, where do I place the hrp,texture,and jpeg files? Oh and by the way ,I did test out the ultrahal with several different antispy and AV scanners and was pleased enough to make the purchase. (Nuff said!!)[]