Re: OT: Google Voice question.
Thanks very much Joseph. I have the highest regard and appreciation for your knowledge, many valuable explanations, and excellent suggestions and solutions. After implementing the remedy that Brian suggested, Google Voice now seems to be a perfect solution for my needs. Google voice-mail now answers all calls to my 30-year established toll free number instantly with not even a single ring delay; and it answers calls to our existing land-line home phone number after just two or three rings. That is exactly what we needed. Plus, it also provides free voice-mail transcription of all voice-mail recorded calls, custom answering, and call filtering; so I can't imagine any other telephone service being as ideal as this for my needs ... and it's all free. What could possibly be better? -- > I understand what you want to do. I was simply pointing out that > if that's what you want then Google Voice is simply the wrong tool. > If you try to use a sports car to haul dirt, you might manage it but > it would be a lot easier if you just use a truck. > > If you want business voicemail, then there are many providers for exactly > that; you seem to have found a way to shoehorn Google Voice into your use > case, but I still suggest that you may find an actual business voice mail > service to be far better at accomplishing your stated goals. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: Google Voice question.
Attaching your toll free number to GV? That's actually how its meant to work. On Sep 14, 2012 12:02 AM, wrote: > > Thanks very much Joseph. I have the highest regard and appreciation for > your knowledge, many valuable explanations, and excellent suggestions and > solutions. > > After implementing the remedy that Brian suggested, Google Voice now seems > to be a perfect solution for my needs. > > Google voice-mail now answers all calls to my 30-year established toll > free number instantly with not even a single ring delay; and it answers > calls to our existing land-line home phone number after just two or three > rings. That is exactly what we needed. Plus, it also provides free > voice-mail transcription of all voice-mail recorded calls, custom > answering, and call filtering; so I can't imagine any other telephone > service being as ideal as this for my needs ... and it's all free. What > could possibly be better? > > -- > > I understand what you want to do. I was simply pointing out that > > if that's what you want then Google Voice is simply the wrong tool. > > If you try to use a sports car to haul dirt, you might manage it but > > it would be a lot easier if you just use a truck. > > > > If you want business voicemail, then there are many providers for exactly > > that; you seem to have found a way to shoehorn Google Voice into your use > > case, but I still suggest that you may find an actual business voice mail > > service to be far better at accomplishing your stated goals. > > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: Google Voice question.
Why not transfer you long established number to google voice, then you could take advantage of all the features On 9/13/2012 5:46 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: I think you misunderstand what Google Voice is. Is it wrong of me to want to use the many good features of Google Voice that I very much appreciate in the way that I want to use it (and keeping my 20-year established and widely published land line number as my primary, ring-first number)? I do not want to go through the nuisance and annoyance of changing my primary, published telephone number everywhere. 1) It is NOT voicemail. It has voicemail, but it's intended to function opposite to a voicemail service. To each his own. 2) People should be calling your Google Voice number directly; it then forwards to (rings) one or more actual phones (home phone, cellphone, gmail, etc...) and redirects to voicemail if you don't pick up. That is just not what I need or want. The idea is that you give everyone your Google Voice number, but not your home or cell number(s). Then you can change home or cell service without impact to people who want to call you. Again, that is not what I need or want. You also gain control options, such as setting some callers to only ring through on weekdays, or setting some callers to ring the home phone but not the cellphone. Again, that is not what I need or want. So the reason it doesn't work the way you want is that your concept has it behind your normal phone; it's actually the reverse in that your normal phone is *behind* Google Voice. Again, I just want my "normal" land-line phone to be my primary telephone and my primary telephone number. Is it wrong to want that and to want to use Google Voice in the way I want and need to use it? I have two different Google Voice numbers for two different applications, one personal and one business. For the business application, *all* calls to my toll free number are forwarded instantly and directly to my business Google Voice number and I need that number answered by voice mail on the *first ring* because that toll free number is *never* answered "live" and the 25 second (five+ ring) delay is a serious detriment. All calls *must* be recorded for my business application and the transcribing that Google Voice does for those calls is extremely valuable. The 25-second five-ring delay is extremely detrimental. Judging from the many posts on the 'net on this same subject, many, many other people have the same need that I have. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: Google Voice question.
> Why not transfer your long established number to google voice, > then you could take advantage of all the features As far as I know, google does not allow the transfer of either a land line number or a toll free number to google voice. And, since my current setup is now working perfectly to satisfy all of my tele-com needs and objectives (and it does take advantage of all of the GV features that I need and want), I don't know of any features or benefits that I might be missing. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: Google Voice question.
damn - now I have to go to Home Depot --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
why /var/log/messages went crazy?
Several days ago, my /var/log/messages (and syslog and user.log) went crazy adding entries so fast that my system crashed due to the root partition filling up and giving a "no space left" message. Thanks to help from plug and another forum, I was able to delete enough files to regain enough file space to get the system restarted, and I then flushed the overloaded error message files and for several days, no messages were added in /var/log/messages , syslog, and user.log for about a week. I was checking for new messages every day or two and all seemed to be okay until today, something caused the /var/log/messages and syslog files to start filling up rapidly again. This time I saved 1,000 of the most recent entries in the messages file (several thousand messages were added today), shut the system down, and rebooted. After that, the messages and syslog files slowed down to a trickle ... but how can I figure out what is causing a flare-up like this? I've posted the last 1,000 entries at this link: http://www.upquick.com/temp/messages.last1000 As you can see, messages were being added at a rate of 15 to 20 per second before I shut the system down. After reboot, messages were only added every couple of minutes or so. Can anyone please tell me what might be causing these message flare-ups and how to stop it. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root273529 Sep 10 03:54 user.log.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root364185 Sep 10 04:02 syslog.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root361529 Sep 10 04:02 messages.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4755667 Sep 14 17:57 user.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114200 Sep 14 17:57 syslog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5092302 Sep 14 17:57 messages -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4756252 Sep 14 17:59 user.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114992 Sep 14 17:59 syslog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5093094 Sep 14 17:59 messages --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: why /var/log/messages went crazy?
You could try patching you system and updating your BIOS. I don't recommend turning off acpi if you can avoid it. You may suppress repeated messages if it gets to burdensome until a patch is released. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM, wrote: > Several days ago, my /var/log/messages (and syslog and user.log) went > crazy adding entries so fast that my system crashed due to the root > partition filling up and giving a "no space left" message. > > Thanks to help from plug and another forum, I was able to delete enough > files to regain enough file space to get the system restarted, and I then > flushed the overloaded error message files and for several days, no > messages were added in /var/log/messages , syslog, and user.log for about > a week. I was checking for new messages every day or two and all seemed to > be okay until today, something caused the /var/log/messages and syslog > files to start filling up rapidly again. This time I saved 1,000 of the > most recent entries in the messages file (several thousand messages were > added today), shut the system down, and rebooted. After that, the > messages and syslog files slowed down to a trickle ... but how can I > figure out what is causing a flare-up like this? > > I've posted the last 1,000 entries at this link: > http://www.upquick.com/temp/messages.last1000 > > As you can see, messages were being added at a rate of 15 to 20 per second > before I shut the system down. After reboot, messages were only added > every couple of minutes or so. > > Can anyone please tell me what might be causing these message flare-ups > and how to stop it. > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root273529 Sep 10 03:54 user.log.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root364185 Sep 10 04:02 syslog.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root361529 Sep 10 04:02 messages.1 > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4755667 Sep 14 17:57 user.log > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114200 Sep 14 17:57 syslog > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5092302 Sep 14 17:57 messages > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4756252 Sep 14 17:59 user.log > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114992 Sep 14 17:59 syslog > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5093094 Sep 14 17:59 messages > > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmc...@gmail.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: why /var/log/messages went crazy?
I will guess that this is just as you were shutting down, so the avahi daemon shutdown is 'normal'. So, it looks to me like something is funny with acpi. Have you google'd for all or part of the error message? Did you add or remove some hardware between the time it always worked fine and the time it started to die? I forget it you upgraded between those points - please remind us. I don't know enough about ACPI to know what to suggest, and if turning it off is semi-irrevocable (if not, i'd try turning it off and see if the system stays 'non-spewing' for a 'long time' (relative to past experiences). Just a few thunks Rusty -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of j...@actionline.com Sent: Fri 9/14/2012 6:47 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: why /var/log/messages went crazy? Several days ago, my /var/log/messages (and syslog and user.log) went crazy adding entries so fast that my system crashed due to the root partition filling up and giving a "no space left" message. Thanks to help from plug and another forum, I was able to delete enough files to regain enough file space to get the system restarted, and I then flushed the overloaded error message files and for several days, no messages were added in /var/log/messages , syslog, and user.log for about a week. I was checking for new messages every day or two and all seemed to be okay until today, something caused the /var/log/messages and syslog files to start filling up rapidly again. This time I saved 1,000 of the most recent entries in the messages file (several thousand messages were added today), shut the system down, and rebooted. After that, the messages and syslog files slowed down to a trickle ... but how can I figure out what is causing a flare-up like this? I've posted the last 1,000 entries at this link: http://www.upquick.com/temp/messages.last1000 As you can see, messages were being added at a rate of 15 to 20 per second before I shut the system down. After reboot, messages were only added every couple of minutes or so. Can anyone please tell me what might be causing these message flare-ups and how to stop it. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root273529 Sep 10 03:54 user.log.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root364185 Sep 10 04:02 syslog.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root361529 Sep 10 04:02 messages.1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4755667 Sep 14 17:57 user.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114200 Sep 14 17:57 syslog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5092302 Sep 14 17:57 messages -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4756252 Sep 14 17:59 user.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114992 Sep 14 17:59 syslog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5093094 Sep 14 17:59 messages --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss <>--- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Fwd: RE: making PDFs workable
What I did to setup for the conversion Note I'm doing this on a CentOS
5.x system
1. Add RpmForge to the YUM repo file
wget
http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
2. install tesseract
yum -y install tesseract tesseract-en
This makes it possible to do the following;
gs -r300x300 -sDEVICE=tiffgray -sOutputFile=ocr_%02d.tif
-dBATCH -dNOPAUSE
where the options are
-r is resoultion
-sDEVICE for monocrome output
-sOutputFile=outputfilename note %02d causes the page
number to be inserted into the filename
Followed by
tesseract inputFile outputfile -l eng
where the options are
input is the output tif files from gs
outputfile will be given a .txt extentsion
-l language of input file lish
And then put the pages back together by
>cat tess-outfile01.txt tess-outfile02.txt ...
tess-outfilenn.txt > Input.txt
There will some failed conversion/bad guesses by the tesseract program
so check the final output for correctness.
Bash Script to do the conversion
< This got reformatted and I attempted to put it back the way I
remembered it.>
< the tesseract step takes a while on each page>
<<<
#!/bin/bash
# # # # # # Use this script to convert a pdf formated file to text
# The Input file will be split into single page tiff files
# which will be run through tesseract to OCR the files into
# text files. the text files will be reassimbled into a
# single text file.
# # NOTE: There will still be some cleanup of the text files
# as the OCR is not perfect.
# # # # # # # # Get Input file name, and final output filename
InFile=${1:-"infile.pdf"}
TIFFile="${InFile%.pdf}"
OutFile=${2:-"$TIFFile.txt"}
echo "Input from $InFile, OCR output to $OutFile"
if [ ! -e "$InFile" ] ; then
echo "$InFile not found. exiting"
exit 1
elsif [ ! -r "$InFile" ]
echo " Read not allowed on $InFile. exiting"
exit 1
fi
# setup a temp working area
WrkDir="/tmp/$(date +%s)"
mkdir $WrkDir
echo " Working Dir = $WrkDir"
cp $InFile $WrkDir/
Hdir=$(pwd)
cd $WrkDir
# pwd
gs -r300x300 -sDEVICE=tiffgray -sOutputFile=$TIFFile%02d.tif -dBATCH
-dNOPAUSE $InFile >files
TifCount=$(grep "Page " files | wc -l)
rm files
#
ls -l *.tif
echo "number of pages to process = $TifCount"
for wtif in $(ls *.tif); do
wtxt=${wtif%.tif}
tesseract "$wtif" "$wtxt" -l eng
done
#
ls -l *.txt TxtFiles=$( ls *.txt )
touch $OutFile
for Tf in $TxtFiles; do
#
echo "Working on $Tf, "
cat "$Tf" >> $OutFile
done
ls -l
cp $OutFile $Hdir/
cd $Hdir
# once debuged enable the following
rm -fr $WrkDir
exit 0
>>>
James C
Pdf2txt.sh
Description: Binary data
Pdf to Text
The bash script Pdf2txt.sh located in the same directory as this file
will do all the following steps for PDFs upto 99 pages. It is also
on test.sb.state.az.us (10.168.30.100) in /home/jimc.
Convert .pdf document to single page .tif format documents
>gs -r300x300 -sDEVICE=tiffgray -sOutputFile=ocr_%02d.tif -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE
>
-r is resoultion
-sDEVICE for monocrome output
-sOutputFile=outputfilename
note %02d causes the page number to be inserted
into the filename
next use tesseract to convert each page to text
>tesseract inputFile outputfile -l eng
input is the output tif files from gs
outputfile will be given a .txt extentsion
-l language of input file lish
reassemble the ocr'ed .txt files into a single document
>cat tess-outfile01.txt tess-outfile02.txt ... tess-outfilenn.txt > Input.txt
on test server <10.168.30.100 test.sb.state.az.us>
I have installed tesseract using the following
yum -y install tesseract tesseract-en
using the Rpmforge repositorys
wget
http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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Re: why /var/log/messages went crazy?
Try going into your bios and disabling ACPI (power management) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/475704 What I found helped out was going into my BIOS settings at boot-up time with F11. Then going into the Power tab and disabling ACPI. Then I still get about 10 errors like the one above when I startup, but at least its not the constant log filling that was happening before. I found some documentation listing the BIOS in the SR1700 series of Compaqs as broken. http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:47 PM, wrote: > Several days ago, my /var/log/messages (and syslog and user.log) went > crazy adding entries so fast that my system crashed due to the root > partition filling up and giving a "no space left" message. > > Thanks to help from plug and another forum, I was able to delete enough > files to regain enough file space to get the system restarted, and I then > flushed the overloaded error message files and for several days, no > messages were added in /var/log/messages , syslog, and user.log for about > a week. I was checking for new messages every day or two and all seemed to > be okay until today, something caused the /var/log/messages and syslog > files to start filling up rapidly again. This time I saved 1,000 of the > most recent entries in the messages file (several thousand messages were > added today), shut the system down, and rebooted. After that, the > messages and syslog files slowed down to a trickle ... but how can I > figure out what is causing a flare-up like this? > > I've posted the last 1,000 entries at this link: > http://www.upquick.com/temp/messages.last1000 > > As you can see, messages were being added at a rate of 15 to 20 per second > before I shut the system down. After reboot, messages were only added > every couple of minutes or so. > > Can anyone please tell me what might be causing these message flare-ups > and how to stop it. > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root273529 Sep 10 03:54 user.log.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root364185 Sep 10 04:02 syslog.1 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root361529 Sep 10 04:02 messages.1 > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4755667 Sep 14 17:57 user.log > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114200 Sep 14 17:57 syslog > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5092302 Sep 14 17:57 messages > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 4756252 Sep 14 17:59 user.log > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5114992 Sep 14 17:59 syslog > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root 5093094 Sep 14 17:59 messages > > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
