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Anywhere there is spoken delivery of information, there's a place for high quality speech synthesis. With Cepstral Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthetic voices, your application will speak well for you, anywhere.

You can select a voice that fits your need, optimize it for your application, or even have voices built for a particular character or delivery. With our state-of-the-art unit selection text-to-speech synthesis and voices, you can have customer quality, customizable spoken output in a small, network-downloadable package.

The voices are small and fast enough to run on handheld devices or distribute over the network. Cepstral voices support SSML, VoiceXML tags, and Microsoft(R) SAPI standards to make content authoring, voice switching, and customization easy.

Very nice text-to-speech.

Cepstral Text-to-Speech

Cepstral Professional Services

With Cepstral Professional Services, you can make your spoken output shine. Whether you need special pronunciations for your application or need a new voice, we can deliver Text-To-Speech (TTS) solutions that fit your needs. Cepstral designs, builds, and customizes high-quality voices that enable natural and clear communication. Our voices are ideal in situations where natural-sounding and intelligible verbal communication is required, but where live or pre-recorded speech is costly, technologically complex or not sufficiently flexible.

Our current language palette of English, Spanish, French, German, and Arabic covers 5 of the world's 7 most influential languages as calculated by Weber (1997). While we have a roadmap for additional language development, we can provide a particular language or dialect to meet a customer's needs.

Cepstral Text-to-Speech

Become the master of your domain name...

Linode virtual servers provide all the performance and flexibility of dedicated servers but at shared hosting prices. We manage the hardware, the networks, and the services and you get to do what you do best -- develop your applications, host your web sites, be the master of your domain name.

Pretty good service.

Linode.com - Virtual Server (VPS) Hosting

3.2.10.5. SELECT ... FOR UPDATE and SELECT ... LOCK IN SHARE MODE Locking Reads

In some circumstances, a consistent read is not convenient. For example, you might want to add a new row into your table child, and make sure that the child has a parent in table parent. The following example shows how to implement referential integrity in your application code.

MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 13.2.10.5 SELECT ... FOR UPDATE and SELECT ... LOCK IN SHARE MODE Locking Reads

Employment Opportunities

Metaweb – the company behind Freebase – is a technology startup located in the SOMA district of San Francisco, California. We work on hard problems in software engineering, data modeling, web design and online collaboration. We are well funded, led by a proven, experienced management team, and are building something that could forever change the Web.

In addition to the reward of tackling interesting challenges with smart people, we offer competitive salaries, full benefits, flexible schedules, great food, and standard issue Nerf guns for all employees.

Cool jobs. Hard problems.

Metaweb Technologies, Inc. : Jobs

13.2.10.1. InnoDB Lock Modes

InnoDB implements standard row-level locking where there are two types of locks:

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A shared (S) lock allows a transaction to read a row (tuple).
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An exclusive (X) lock allows a transaction to update or delete a row.

MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 13.2.10.1 InnoDB Lock Modes

This section describes how to set up complete replication of a MySQL server. There are a number of different methods for setting up replication, and the exact method that you use will depend on how you are setting up replication, and whether you already have data within your master database.

Master-Master is neat.

MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 15.1.1 How to Set Up Replication

Stylish submit buttons

Author: Dynamic Drive

Most people would agree the default look of submit buttons is rather dull and unattractive. Using CSS and a nice gradient background image, it's easy to transform a form button from a duck to a swan.

Lots of help for the CSS inept here.

Dynamic Drive CSS Library- Stylish submit buttons

Providing fault tolerance as well as the ability to scale beyond the capacity of a single server, load balancers are practically a necessity for any commercial site. Because loads on a given Web site can fluctuate by several orders of magnitude (five or six, in the case of sites like Victoria's Secret or the World Cup Soccer site), and given that thousands of dollars a minute may be lost if the site is unavailable, being able to spread the load across many servers and ensure that users can still connect, even if one or more physical servers fails or stops responding, is crucial.

The latest load balancer available from Coyote Point Systems is the Equalizer E550si, a 1u (1.75"-high) appliance that offers 20 10/100/1000 ports, all the load-balancing features necessary to set up a sophisticated Web farm or other type of virtual cluster, and excellent performance, at a cost of $10,995 US.

Quick Takes - Coyote Point Equalizer E550si Load Balancer

Talked to these guys, and they gave me warm and fuzzy feelings about scalability.

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