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  1. Re:Hmmm.... by plagioclase · · Score: 1 · on Time Travelers' Convention

    8. You may be your own great great grandparent.

    Well, there are currently known procedures that enable someone to become their own grandpa. So I suppose once 'science' got involved, this was an inevitable extension.

  2. Already done years ago by courtarro · · Score: 1 · on Send A Message To An LED Sign

    Many people have probably visited Walt's Pro-Lite info site by now, but the owner of that site currently has a page up that does exactly what the OP mentions. All that, and his script was last updated in 1999 ...

  3. here's a working web based LED thingy by complete+loony · · Score: 1 · on Send A Message To An LED Sign

    Send a message to walt.

  4. here's a working web based LED thingy by complete+loony · · Score: 1 · on Send A Message To An LED Sign

    Send a message to walt.

  5. Re:Chance? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Send A Message To An LED Sign

    The code isn't original. It's on their website:
    http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/prolite/

  6. Re:Already done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Send A Message To An LED Sign

    Yeah, and the so-called "custom Python script" was from the link in the article, too.

    WHAT CREATIVITY! (not)

  7. Here's one that works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Send A Message To An LED Sign

    http://wls.wwco.com/sendmsg/

  8. Re:I hope he doesnt have kids..... by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 1 · on Send A Message To An LED Sign

    its perfectly feasible unfortunately.

    Sourceforge project anyone?

    image -> LED display?

    instructions here

  9. trivial... by advocate_one · · Score: 1 · on Send A Message To An LED Sign
    according to the site you reffed for the prolite

    However, it is possible to build your own cable for a few dollars. Then making Linux communicate with the light board is trivial.

    Once you have it, your can start communicating with the message board from your computer. I've proposed an enhanced protocol that would be backwards compatible. Pro-Lite has not responded much about it. Perhaps they think there is little interest by programmers.

    [..]

    I've started to collect home-brewed applications , particularly for Linux. For example, you can post a scrolling message to Walt using the web.
  10. Re:ah fare thee well by phraktyl · · Score: 3, Informative · on Remembering the BBS

    Actually, there's a version out for Linux now called DuhDraw:

    DuhDraw is a program which almost perfectly simulates TheDraw for DOS. Back in the good old BBSing days, TheDraw was a program used by a SysOp in order to draw ANSI screens, the only graphics available on BBSes for quite a while. However, for a long time, nobody considered Linux, as Linux BBSes were uncommon. Other applications of the software include login screens, and mud screens. I always thought it ironic that MUDs were mostly run off of Unix machines, and yet they used DOS editors to generate the ANSI screens.

    http://www.wwco.com/~wls/opensource/duhdraw.php