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« on: August 31, 2002, 11:22:15 am »
well I guess my feedback is good. I was impressed with the slicker installation.
no problems! Although since I am skiddish about loading hal onto my main computer(I don't load anything on my main computer) I am trying to run hal over my home network So he can come out of the lab/basement. will try using "tightvnc" to access him. (( I think a bot should always stay live looking over my sholder and listening to whats going on))
But tried the download several times got to 20 meg once then network slowed down. "dsl reports"still say's I have a very fast connection. So then ordered the cd upgrade and it arrived in less than 7 days.
Randon notes topics for discusson.
----I will look for where I can tell hal not to go to sleep. and keep the microphone active.
----NOte my computer consists of 4 PC's trying to bring on line a linux and a solaris server- with some form of distributed computing. for a whole house system. YOu can do this with wake on lan's and power saver settings.
----Note I tried the web based hal but after several flashing popups I stopped! I expected a frog banner for zabaware but no. Just cheep !@#$#@!%$#@%$ pop up's.
this was a year ago.
---you would expect the online hall to be able to answer questions *help.
Does anyone want to consolidate their database or create a common one?
I have only had 30 min so far to run the upgrade but the first words were impressive (not to qoute) Hey Chuck what are you doing up so late? it's 1:30 in the morning.
IDEA let hal learn from my favorites folder searching the web sites for a conversational database.(that sounds like a project)
Well I guess this was good feedback. I am happy to buy the upgrade. It is good to continue to build on things they just keep getting better.