Wheeee! Sorry, I had to. I am now batting.100 on submissions, f34r me!:^)
It turns my stomach, that's for sure!
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Another Garbage Patent
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These aren't "innovative devlopments that deserve to be protected", this is Look'n'Feel Wars round XIV. I figured that we were done with this shtuph a decade ago. I guess not. (Good thing I renamed the "trash can" to "toilet" on my Atari ST, I might just need to reboot it sooooon...)
And now for something completely different...
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Server In A Fly
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A man with a web server up his brother's nose!
I see (by the updated page 8:40pm EST) that his next project will involve either a dead (crunchy?) frog or mouse with a web server and able to twitch by web command. Umm, in a necro rut perhaps? (The cockroachcam sounds cool. Talk about Reality TV!)
Not just the fly is down -- His next project
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The fly has been down for over a year, but it looks like the site talking about it was taken down by Garnet. (All those pictures, all those slashdotters probably cost a pretty penny.) He now has a text page talking about his next project and a pop up that if we click on, his friend will give him a nickel. (Obvious not a good friend!:^) Here's the text:
Slashdotters - please bookmark this page and visit it over the next week. If you have any questions about my work, email me at garnet [at] vividworks [dot] com or phone me at (306) 664-9495 - I am happy to talk to you.
I am currently building a project with a preserved frog (or mouse) with an implanted webserver and camera, with user-controlled twitching legs. This project will be launched in October 2003. Bookmark conceptlab.com for details.
After that, I am planning on trying to build user-controlled living cockroaches mounted with cameras (which is completely possible from a technical perspective).
I will re-enable the images and video on this page over the next couple of days.
If you want to support my work, check out my friend's wierd/neat stuff on the popup window (or click here - lots of gadgets, and he gives me a nickel for each click-through. His four rotor helicopter/camera thing is pretty neat. If you buy something, tell him that Garnet sent you and that you should get some free stuff thrown in.
Waaaaag! Sorry, I used to work for an arcade game company back then, and if I hear the attract cycle for that game one more time, I'll get.. disgruntled.. at somebody. (I think that was one of the ones that they used home laser players in. They died like flies -- except no one ever stuck web servers up their bums.)
If he wanted to avoid any sympathy, he could have used a cockroach. Even PETA should be okay with that. However, there is then the dangerous possiblity of "cockroach cluster" jokes -- which could lead to Python.
Re:Are we sure it's not a hoax?
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Server In A Fly
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See my later post up a couple. It does actually web serve, with SLIP no less! There are lots of neat controller applications these could be used for. (Throw a whole bunch of them along some cabling, and you could centrally control.. thermostats, burglar alarms, etc..)
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Server In A Fly
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I eat my words! As you can see here there is a package for the chip that supports a SLIP connection with a limited TCP/IP stack. Wow! Impressive! Granted it doesn't do a lot, but for the sort of applications it would be used for, it doesn't need to.
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Server In A Fly
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Huh, it looks like there is a package to do a web server Cute hack.
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Server In A Fly
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Hard to say. From the specs there's not much to this chip. 1k code EEPROM, 64 bytes data EEPROM, 64 bytes ram. It obviously doesn't handle any of the networking: You pass it a single HTTP command via a serial port, you get the response back. (One person could slashdot this thing!)
Could it be done with the 64 bytes ram? Maybe. (It's the stack space too remember.) It would be a tight hack. It would also be much easier to keep all the web functions on the external computer and use the microcontroller just to turn on/off the LEDs. So much easier, that I really suspect that we're being hosed about the server really being done on the fly.
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Rethinking. You don't need a line buffer, just a teeny-weenie state engine to parse the stream as it comes in. (It's been a while since I had to think in a space that small.) Very very tight.
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Server In A Fly
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I really wonder just what he meant by a "web server". Take a look at the microcontroller and tell me how likely it is that this supports to slightest sub-set of HTTP. There's 1k of EEPROM code space, 64 bytes of ram, and 64 bytes of data EEPROM. Note also that's there's no hardware networking or serial port. (No biggie in software if you use the timer, but it still eats part of the code space.) Also, think about the 64 bytes of ram and your line buffer as the HTTP command comes in. Hmmm. Now, don't get me wrong, you can do a lot in 1k of code, but I smell something that flies are usually found near.
Could it be that they've got a midget in the pedestal playing the chess moves, err, another computer doing the web page and using the Fairchild chip as an LED controller?
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Wheeee! Sorry, I had to. I am now batting .100 on submissions, f34r me! :^)
These aren't "innovative devlopments that deserve to be protected", this is Look'n'Feel Wars round XIV. I figured that we were done with this shtuph a decade ago. I guess not. (Good thing I renamed the "trash can" to "toilet" on my Atari ST, I might just need to reboot it sooooon...)
I see (by the updated page 8:40pm EST) that his next project will involve either a dead (crunchy?) frog or mouse with a web server and able to twitch by web command. Umm, in a necro rut perhaps? (The cockroachcam sounds cool. Talk about Reality TV!)
I wonder if he's thought about goat servers?
That there wasn't any of that tenticle stuff!
Holy cow! They've got ours! (Definitely not based on an anime. :^)
Waaaaag! Sorry, I used to work for an arcade game company back then, and if I hear the attract cycle for that game one more time, I'll get .. disgruntled .. at somebody. (I think that was one of the ones that they used home laser players in. They died like flies -- except no one ever stuck web servers up their bums.)
Thanks. Someone later posted basically the same thing upstream of it and got another 4 karma. *sigh* :^)
But the Dungeon Master support MIDI sound? (Sure, I could reassemble my ST and try it out -- don't make me go there!)
Let's see.. Always backup your servers -- make sure your fly is zipped!
If he wanted to avoid any sympathy, he could have used a cockroach. Even PETA should be okay with that. However, there is then the dangerous possiblity of "cockroach cluster" jokes -- which could lead to Python.
Lead admin sighs, holds head and mutters "that was the server..."
Actually, his fly has been down for over a year.
You think the electrodes and stuff were uncomfortable? Just wait until the geeks start pondering case mods and overclocking!
"There are no magic dead fly servers"
See my later post up a couple. It does actually web serve, with SLIP no less! There are lots of neat controller applications these could be used for. (Throw a whole bunch of them along some cabling, and you could centrally control .. thermostats, burglar alarms, etc..)
I eat my words! As you can see here there is a package for the chip that supports a SLIP connection with a limited TCP/IP stack. Wow! Impressive! Granted it doesn't do a lot, but for the sort of applications it would be used for, it doesn't need to.
Huh, it looks like there is a package to do a web server Cute hack.
Could it be done with the 64 bytes ram? Maybe. (It's the stack space too remember.) It would be a tight hack. It would also be much easier to keep all the web functions on the external computer and use the microcontroller just to turn on/off the LEDs. So much easier, that I really suspect that we're being hosed about the server really being done on the fly.
Rethinking. You don't need a line buffer, just a teeny-weenie state engine to parse the stream as it comes in. (It's been a while since I had to think in a space that small.) Very very tight.
Could it be that they've got a midget in the pedestal playing the chess moves, err, another computer doing the web page and using the Fairchild chip as an LED controller?
Ah well, it would have interesting to see that site. Did anyone use a fly-cacher?
Perhaps someone should send him an email: "Excuse me, your fly is down"? Or should we just be polite and not say anything?
You practice rouge skills in front of a mirror. Rogue skills on the other hand... :^P
Quibble: the sound on the Atari ST was mono. But in perspective, the PC/DOS world at the time was CGA/EGA and sound was the PC speaker.