I don't know if it's offered elsewhere, but in Austin you can get an ISP that provides 3Mb/s both ways. It's about $3 more than basic cable modem in the area, however, you must live within 10 miles of their site (near downtown/campus). Look at http://www.nobell.com
Yes, like most of their products, Rat Shack OEMs the X10 modules. They used to sell this thing that looked like a large X10 controller (the box with buttons on the end of an AC cord) that also had an RS232 port growing out of its butt. Essentially, Firecracker is a new flavor of this interface, different in that it somehow allows serial pass-through (much like a PPA or IMM Zip drive, but with RS232). Why they did this is beyond me; Few generic PC/WinDos users care about serial ports, everything that used to eat up those ports is now on PS/2, USB, or internal to the PC case. If X10 was really one step beyond, they would be releasing a Firecracker module that speaks USB. Of course, that would make Linux driver development a bit stickier...
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know if it's offered elsewhere, but in Austin you can get an ISP that provides 3Mb/s both ways. It's about $3 more than basic cable modem in the area, however, you must live within 10 miles of their site (near downtown/campus). Look at http://www.nobell.com
Yes, like most of their products, Rat Shack OEMs the X10 modules. They used to sell this thing that looked like a large X10 controller (the box with buttons on the end of an AC cord) that also had an RS232 port growing out of its butt. Essentially, Firecracker is a new flavor of this interface, different in that it somehow allows serial pass-through (much like a PPA or IMM Zip drive, but with RS232). Why they did this is beyond me; Few generic PC/WinDos users care about serial ports, everything that used to eat up those ports is now on PS/2, USB, or internal to the PC case. If X10 was really one step beyond, they would be releasing a Firecracker module that speaks USB. Of course, that would make Linux driver development a bit stickier...
I got a camera on my machine at work: The Andycam
Remember what Seinfeld did for Thursday nights?