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VNC Server for Toasters and Light-Switches
An anonymous reader submits: "How about using VNC to configure your toaster, microwave oven, or even your light-switches? Thanks to Adam Dunkels' micro-VNC server it is now possible to run a VNC server even on really small embedded 8-bit microcontrollers commonly found in such devices. The idea is that even low-cost devices that don't have a screen or graphics hardware could have a GUI, accessible over the network. To show that the server can run with very small amounts of memory, there is a demo server running on a Commodore 64. But the real question is: how would want to 'configure' their toasters using a GUI?"
Yeah, back in the day we used to say "Lets install Linux on a toaster!" and it was a joke.
But now someone actually took it seriously, and look whatcha dun!! You should be ashamed!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Scares me to think how fast it'll fall...
Now all i need is VNC for my microwave and oven, and i can control my whole kitchen from my computer.
So, when your toast is done, will there be a "pop-up" window telling you that? Sorry. Couldn't help it.
MadDad32
Quoth the page:
The pages you are currently watching are served by a web server running on a an Ethernet equipped 6510-based system with 64k RAM running at 1 MHz (a Commodore 64 with a TFE cartridge). The same system also exports two displays using VNC and the small uVNC server software.
Other servers have come down like they were Commodore 64's, but this one actually is one!
....I thought the title was VNC Server for Toasters and Light-Sandwiches.
But then I realised there's no such thing as a free lunch.
Techsupport: Hi, how may I help you?
User: Hi, I got your ToasterVNC, and when i tried to install it on my toaster, all hell broke loose!
Techsupport: Can you describe what happened?
User: I opened the box, put the CD in my toaster's CD-ROM, pushed the lever, and a few minutes later the whole thing started smoking.
Techsupport: I think I know what the problem is. Take the whole thing back to the store, and tell them that you got an ID-ten-T error
User: Thanks!
oops, that's the CLI. I don't know about the GUI version.
Linux will never make proper toast
without Pantone for calibration.
This seems akin to someone scanning in a print-out of their email as an attachment instead of sending an email directly... =/
As unlikely as this seems, my father communicates with my mother in a similar manner (they've been divorced for 30+ years now..)
When he wants to send an email, he types it up (on an old, mechanical typewriter) on letterhead.. then scans it and emails it..
When I first saw my mother open an email from him, I couldn't believe it.. and when she told me that that's how he sends all of his email, I almost fainted..
some people just don't understand technology.
If we run it on the coffee machine, will we have to run the JAVA version of the VNC viewer?
Earlier today, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-Disney) announced legislation to allow copyright holders to use otherwise illegal hacking techniques to disrupt toasters, light switches, and other devices used by individuals believed to be pirating copyrighted works.
RIAA chair Hilary Rosen hailed the effort as a milestone in attempts at combatting Internet piracy. "The development of Internet-enabled toasters offers us vast new opportunities to hit the pirates where they live. 'Smoking out the bastards' will no longer be a figure of speech. It will be a reality.'"
An anonymous reader submits: "How about using an external control, made of plastic or metal, to configure your toaster, microwave oven, or even your light-switches? Thanks to Adam Dunkels' "dial", it is no longer necessary to run a VNC server on really small embedded 8-bit microcontrollers commonly found in such devices. The idea is that even low-cost devices that don't have a screen or graphics hardware could have a physical control, like a GUI only in 3-d space, accessible right on the device...But the real question is: who would want to 'configure' their toasters using a physical dial?"
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yes, but it was the best a smoking lump o' plastic surrounding a the burnt out husk of a 6502 of its time!
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I was immediately thinking of how much I could freak out the wife by making all the appliances turn themselves on and off. She still gets confused when the mouse on the home computer starts moving around on it's own while I'm at work.
"Or Turn on your A/C from work because it's going to be a HOT afternoon. (Sure could use that today)."
Turning on AC's now? Wahtcha gonna do, send them Goatse?