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What mousepad (what kind of mousepad, e.g. what material and what pattern) would you recommend for an optical mouse, and why? Or perhaps a mousepad is not necessary for an optical mouse?
Some thought about mousepads: Coding Horror :: Mousing Surface Theory...
Started by Jakub Narębski on
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I haven't used a mousepad for the ....
Some surfaces are too reflective and/or even for an optical mouse to work well; in which case find for optical mice, simply because it greatly reduces wear on the table surface and dirt collected mice.
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When reading files off of a hard drive, mmap is generally regarded as a good way to quickly get data into memory. When working with optical drives, accesses take more time and you have a higher latency to worry about. What approach/abstraction do you ...
Started by spate on
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Optical drive can have large block sizes compared to hard drives in mind, that modern optical drives....
However, optical drive hardware will normally be optimized isn't already doing that for you.
Sorry.
Slow drives are going to be slow.
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Is it possible to play audio over optical cables in Ubuntu?
I've got a motherboard with Realtek ALC888 onboard audio. Ubuntu can play music/sounds just fine to my headphones or over analog cables to my speakers.
However, my problem is that I use an optical...
Started by TM on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Make IEC958 the new default PCM output:
Raise the volume, unmute and... .
Http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130928
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=776958
You have to enable 3 settings to get it to work:
Make IEC958 output captured from PCM .
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What lasts longer: Data stored on non-volatile flash RAM (USB stick or SD cards?), optical media (CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray?), or magnetic disk (floppies, hard drives?) My gut tells me optical media, but I'm not sure.
Furthermore, which of those digital media...
Started by Chris W. Rea on
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With optical....
Optical is going from humidity and temperature.
As long as it isn't scratched or broken during that time.. .
It should survive the varying temps and humidity the best for long-term storage .
I'd go with the Optical Media.
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I have backups of files archived in optical media (CDs and DVDs). These all have par2 recovery files, stored on separate media. Even in cases where there are no par2 files, minor errors when reading on one optical drive can be read fine on another drive...
Started by ΤΖΩΤΖΙΟΥ on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Since you are asking about driver level access.
Is the device for the optical drive in my case.
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We have a few HP laptops with Microsoft Basic Optical mice, the mice for some reason no longer work on the laptops but do work on desktops, this has only occurred this week. When I plug in the mice the optical light underneath do not light up and I receive...
Started by Swanny on
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I still get this message....
I took my laptop to my specialist and was informed that, even though I had a powered hub, the fact that I had so many devices plugged in reduced the power available .
I don't know if this is your problem, but I had a similar problem .
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I'm trying to create a piece of software that automate the PC by capturing the screenshot, then OCR (Optical Character Recognition) it looking for a particular button to click (for example). I've got the mouse and keyboard control part, but now, I needed...
Started by Hao Wooi Lim on
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If you are feeling really bold you can always whip up a simple Perceptron or Neural Network based approach :-)
Try using commertial... .
Otherwise this question is pretty similar to "OCR for .NET" .
Perhaps look at this question on image enchancement prior to OCR .
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Hi
I've had this problem for a while, but have only recently really tested what works and what doesn't, and it's frightfully confusing. Here's my drive situation (Sony Vaio FE890 running ArchLinux):
Sony vaio FE-890 optical drive (MATSHITA cd/dvd read...
Started by Mala on
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Usually I see that it can read.
optical drives (desktop as well, but a lot less common).
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Here's the problem:
Provider has given to us a public IP address space x.y.z.0/28 where x.y.z.1 is address of an interface on their own network device, which should be a default gateway to our server, according to their words. There is an optical link...
Started by Boban P. on
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Crossover....
Power-cycling the cable modem causes it to forget the MAC its seen so that I can use it with another system .
My home cable modem does this and once it's seen a MAC, it won't respond to any other MAC .
Couple things come to mind:
MAC address learning.
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Spdif: glass fiber optical cable vs acrylic optical cable vs coaxial cable I'm shopping for a couple more of digital cables. Have read that they both have pros and cons but audiophiles usually prefer coaxial type. It is true? The whole thing's kinda confusing...
Started by danvu on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at martinloganowners):
On the receiving end, this optical electrical in nature, acts like....
With optical connection, this electrical signal needs to be converted to optical pulses for transmission.
And gets "transmitted" via copper cable to the receiver.
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