Check out www.audreyhacking.com, or the linux-hacker message board that was posted earlier.
Basic hacks completed:
-Shell access
-Mounting Windows shares
-Mp3 playing (with phplay)
-VNC client
-Some home control via web pages
-Serial terminal to Audrey
-and a few more I forgot about...
I am looking into data acquisition through the serial port... anyone know of a cheap serial A to D converter.:-) I was going to build one, but the ones I found on the web looked like they might not capture high enough resolution data.
The G4 clearly wins that race. Since I don't do much image processing... and the G4 and Athlon are about the same in terms of compiling code... I would go G4.
Now if only I would buy a G4 for $200 and a motherboard for $100...:-)
I wonder what Apple was making on the CRT's... most of their revenue comes from the machines themselves... so this gives them one fewer item to produce. Maybe they won't run out of computers so quickly now. Yeah right.:-)
If that is the keynote news, I am glad I didn't go to the conference...
The solution to your problem is Lego Mindstorms and a nice script. (Posted earlier). Just build a little robot to load and unload the CD's from the tray, and then rip and repeat.
Sounds like a fun weekend project. You could have it queue up hundreds of CD's... and let it rip. (Pun intended)
This is similar to the LCD question, but it pertains to hard drives. I have been looking into drive lifetimes... and on a Tivo mailing list someone mentioned leaving the drive on (and spinning) all the time is the best. The idea being that the spin up of the platters is the most stressful part of the drives life. Is this at all true?
... but if you spread it to all OSes, then more people can work on the bugs for their OS...
In my experience, it has always been easier to get it running on other platforms early in the game... it helps boost spirts. (read: seems like you got something done)
...when are we going to see some telescopes on the moon? Now that would be neat! But first, we need to get people interested in the space program again... hmmm. Oh well, I just hate it when the coolest thing that humans do keeps getting less and less funding...
I hate when the MHz is used to show a CPU speed... for example, the PPC G4 gets a bad deal because it is only 500 MHz, but in reality, it is MUCH faster then it's Intel/AMD counterparts.
Why get a mainframe... can someone tells me what makes them so much better? I know there are FAR more reliable... but they also cost a great deal more... why not get a HA Cluster?
Just wondering... beucase I goto a school where we do JCL and mainframe shit all the time...
Hmmm... that is a bit steap.:-) But I wonder, would they accept my request? You hear about NASA lauching stuff with companies/schools... but never the private inventor.
Anyone know of a company I could talk to to get my projects into space?
Hmmm... seems all you need is a scanned image on black background... then some clever software. I bet some of the CS profs at NIU could help... we are the mainframe capitol of the US of A.
It is great for building a good windows UI... and the doc/view arch can help you sort things out in your code. (So CMainFrame doesn't get bloated.:-)
As for gaming, I played around with it using OpenGL. I didn't really have any problems. That fact that the framework handles just about any of the basic program tasks (file i/o, win32 controls...) makes life a lot easier.
I am working on a small games with a few buddies of mine. Our Win version s going to be done with MFC as the framework... and OpenGL to do the drawing...
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Check out www.audreyhacking.com, or the linux-hacker message board that was posted earlier.
:-) I was going to build one, but the ones I found on the web looked like they might not capture high enough resolution data.
Basic hacks completed:
-Shell access
-Mounting Windows shares
-Mp3 playing (with phplay)
-VNC client
-Some home control via web pages
-Serial terminal to Audrey
-and a few more I forgot about...
I am looking into data acquisition through the serial port... anyone know of a cheap serial A to D converter.
Later.
-Affe
Don't forget the most inmportant benchmark of all:
:-)
RC5
The G4 clearly wins that race. Since I don't do much image processing... and the G4 and Athlon are about the same in terms of compiling code... I would go G4.
Now if only I would buy a G4 for $200 and a motherboard for $100...
...but I think this chip falls in the "MHz Myth" area.
We need a few more detail on what type of operations it can do in a clock cycle...
I wonder what Apple was making on the CRT's... most of their revenue comes from the machines themselves... so this gives them one fewer item to produce. Maybe they won't run out of computers so quickly now. Yeah right. :-)
If that is the keynote news, I am glad I didn't go to the conference...
The solution to your problem is Lego Mindstorms and a nice script. (Posted earlier). Just build a little robot to load and unload the CD's from the tray, and then rip and repeat.
Sounds like a fun weekend project. You could have it queue up hundreds of CD's... and let it rip. (Pun intended)
This was posted some time ago...
Lego DJ thing
Why... seems to have enough power to run any OS out there... unless there is something they aren't telling us.
My only complaint... 8.4" screen. They should have made the push to the 10" screen. Oh well. Back to "studying" for finals.
Later.
The "jet" ones are usaully a magnetic impeller... I don't think the UPS will hurt that...
This is similar to the LCD question, but it pertains to hard drives. I have been looking into drive lifetimes... and on a Tivo mailing list someone mentioned leaving the drive on (and spinning) all the time is the best. The idea being that the spin up of the platters is the most stressful part of the drives life. Is this at all true?
Later.
... but if you spread it to all OSes, then more people can work on the bugs for their OS...
In my experience, it has always been easier to get it running on other platforms early in the game... it helps boost spirts. (read: seems like you got something done)
Later.
Anyone know of of a very small OS... one that will simply boot a machine to a prompt, nothing more?
Just wondering...
Here at NIU, we still have our trusty IBM S/390...
The best OS class will simply tell us how SJF or RR scheduling works... no code really...
Peace out.
It is part distributed system... if you look at what they are trying to do, you NEED that power...
Peace out.
If you read the article from IBM... it is the largest _IBM_ cluster...
http://www.ibm.com/news/2000/12/12.phtml
Peace out.
Ooops... no, I didn't see it. Thanks for the heads up!
Now we just need a method of reloading a kernel without a reboot... sounds like a fun (read: hard) project. :-)
Peace out.
What sort of wireless modem did you use?
I have been wanting to do this... but using a TINI board instead of the Stamp.
I wonder if we can use this to create a better Napster/Scour...
But it could be used for evil... RIAA could find out exactly where big MP3 sites start up. Lame!
Peace out.
...when are we going to see some telescopes on the moon? Now that would be neat! But first, we need to get people interested in the space program again... hmmm. Oh well, I just hate it when the coolest thing that humans do keeps getting less and less funding...
Peace out.
I hate when the MHz is used to show a CPU speed... for example, the PPC G4 gets a bad deal because it is only 500 MHz, but in reality, it is MUCH faster then it's Intel/AMD counterparts.
u type=all&arch=2&contest=rc5
I should say I am refering to rhe RC5 speeds...
http://n0cgi.distributed.net/speed/query.cgi?cp
Peace out.
Why get a mainframe... can someone tells me what makes them so much better? I know there are FAR more reliable... but they also cost a great deal more... why not get a HA Cluster?
Just wondering... beucase I goto a school where we do JCL and mainframe shit all the time...
Peace out.
Damn... that might be tricky. There must be another way. :-)
Peace out.
Hmmm... that is a bit steap. :-) But I wonder, would they accept my request? You hear about NASA lauching stuff with companies/schools... but never the private inventor.
Anyone know of a company I could talk to to get my projects into space?
I was wondering how I could get one of my many projects into space...
:-) I don't see why they wouldn't... just have it ride piggy-back.
Will NASA/ESA/Russian Space Thingy launch anything I give them? How much would this cost? Say something that weights 1 pound...
That would be pretty sweet if they did.
But then it would have to be assured that the private craft doesn't mess with the real one.
Just wondering.
Hmmm... seems all you need is a scanned image on black background... then some clever software. I bet some of the CS profs at NIU could help... we are the mainframe capitol of the US of A.
Long live the mainframe!!!
j/k.
Peace out.
It is great for building a good windows UI... and the doc/view arch can help you sort things out in your code. (So CMainFrame doesn't get bloated. :-)
As for gaming, I played around with it using OpenGL. I didn't really have any problems. That fact that the framework handles just about any of the basic program tasks (file i/o, win32 controls...) makes life a lot easier.
I am working on a small games with a few buddies of mine. Our Win version s going to be done with MFC as the framework... and OpenGL to do the drawing...
Peace out.