The Kindle’s text-to-speech capability surprised me by being much better than I imagined it would be. And everyone should expect that in the next few years computer voices will become indistinguishable from human voices (acoustically if not theatrically). The Authors Guild does.
They’re worried that Amazon’s newest e-book device has the potential to undermine the market [...]
In your /etc/vsftpd.conf add:
pasv_min_port=10000
pasv_max_port=10024
pasv_address=1.2.3.4
(Where 1.2.3.4 is your external public IP address.)
Then:
ec2-authorize default -p 20-21
ec2-authorize default -p 10000-10024
and restart vsftpd.
What this does is configure vsftpd to use ports 10000-10024 for passive data transfers. Then ec2-authorize opens ports 20-21 and 10000-10024 for active and passive connections.
I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out [...]
I need to enunciate more clearly or Jott is going to get me in trouble with the wife… I said “Opera,” not “Barbara.”
I just wrote a post on BigHugeLabs.com about how I’ve had 1,000,000 unique visitors over the past 30 days. That’s a million individual people. The more I think about it, the more it blows me away. Until the internet came along and changed everything, the only way for a person to reach a million people [...]
Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.
Venkman: What?
Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Spengler: It would be bad.
Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”?
Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
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