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Send A Message To An LED Sign

Posted by timothy on from the well-that's-brave dept.

An anonymous reader submits "I just got a Pro Lite LED sign today. After a few minutes splicing and wiring up a DB9 to RJ11 connection, and a little fun with python, I've got a script that lets me take input from the web and display it on the sign. Eventually it will have other, more useful, purposes, but I figured I'd let you guys play with it as it is. There's also a log of past messages."

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  1. Been said before, will be said again: by BodyCount07 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why on earth would you submit your own website when you know it will go down in a matter of seconds? Authors should have to start proving some sort of minimal bandwidth requirement before submitting their own site. I'm tired of people hosting web pages on their home DSL lines.

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  2. Re:Excuse me, but ... by Tokerat · · Score: 4, Insightful


    It's called TOS, or terms of service. This guy is going to get an angry call from his cable provider come 9AM, and they'll probably take the wire down right off his house lol

    As for the /. effect, it can last for a long time. As long as that story is on the front page.

    Hell, I post an occational image on Fark and you should see the logfiles go apeshit

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  3. Re:Hah by __aavhli5779 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This may get modded down, but the guy who posted the article is an utter moron.

    He's already posted this link on two message boards (Ars Technica and Something Awful), to be informed that his copy of IIS Personal Web Server, included with Windows, which allows a maximum of 5 connections, couldn't stand up to the onslaught.

    Evidently, he decided posting it on Slashdot was a logical next step.

  4. Ethics of Article Posting (offtopic) by harikiri · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot needs to post an article, on above all things - article posting ethics. This current article demonstrates a trend that's happening recently, whereby people are seeing someone's cool homepage (or submitting their own), and forwarding it to hundreds of thousands of internet users via a Slashdot article.

    I mean please, linking a CGI page on a windows server hosted on your cable modem connection, with a throughput of 9.6K... that's not gonna hold up 5 seconds after slashdot posts the article.

    This is hopelessly offtopic, but it's something that people need to start thinking about before they submit an article.

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  5. Re:Hah by another_henry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Notice how the submitter was anonymous... I don't think it was the same guy as the sign owner himself.

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  6. Why approve this submission? Idiot editors! by Monoman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This was an AC post calling for control of a piece of hardware. How do we know the AC is even the real owner of the sign? Even if it is real, the sign probably crashed under the load just from /. subscribers (all 3 of them :-) ) before it was posted for the public.

    Over the years I have had quite a few submissions rejected and then the editors publish something like this. eeedeeeeots!

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