Archive for October 18th, 2006

Citrix Access Thing (back to the future)

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I’m writing a presentation about the history of Voice Recognition on Windows platforms and found the following wikipedia article Covox Speech Thing about pioneering work of Covox Inc. where I was a remote employee in Moscow, Russia in 1992-1993 designing and implementing components for their VoiceBlaster speech recognition application (as far as I remember subject to the past war with Creative Labs and their SoundBlaster trademark)

Looking back almost 15 years ago I envisage that 15 years in the future someone might write an article called “Citrix Access Thing” featuring schematics of Citrix hardware and software appliances. Hope this will not happen.

- Dmitry Vostokov -

Musical Dumps

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

After listening to “An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music”

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and remembering that long time ago I was asked to convert stock charts into sound waves an idea came to me to convert memory dump files into WAV files by appending an appropriate header in front of them. So depending on imposed sampling frequency (Hz), quantization level (bits) and mono/stereo settings you can enjoy listening to dumps. Long time ago I wrote a component for hard-disk recording while working on my voice recognition projects and I’m going to reuse it now.

Forthcoming DumpPlayer will be released this weekend for free download so stay tuned. 

If it goes well I promise to write a WinDbg extension to listen to a given memory range.

- Dmitry Vostokov -