pockets. Save it instead, and build your own interfaces using parts from
floppy drives, schematics on the web, ect.
Lately i've been rearing my ugly head at this
page. The author
has schematics
for interfacing it to the LPT port, as well as
software examples.
I built my own interface using a rapid prototype board.
For those too scared to venture into building the interface themselves, I
found
this unit for less than $20 bucks from a company called ACS out in Florida.
Unfortunately due to economic conditions, I cannot even afford that, but great
looking product guys.
$500 is tooo much, i'd rather just interface steppers through the LPT and
save an extra $380.
The Atlas obviously had less tracks too seek through than the Maxtor because it had 1/4 of the total number of tracks the maxtor did. This would totally account for the 1/3 speed increase seen over the IDE solution.
Also to take into consideration is how much buffer each drive has. If I remember right, Atlas's have like 8 megs of buffer, while the 40 gig maxtors have like 2.
These folks are the ones who piss away their money, so folks like me can get useless and obsolete hardware, like the terribly out-of-date Radeon 9700, for cheap cheap cheap.
I look at it a little differently...
A few YEARS back, I got myself a P4 1.4, latest gforce2gts, scsi 160 and an 18 gig drive.
The SCSI drive is dead, replaced by cheaper but higher capacity IDE's. The rest of the system is still intact.
The only game I really play alot is CS, so for me this system suits my needs just fine. In a few months or so, doom3 will be out, will I rush out and get a cheapo 9700 so I can get my FPS fix for the game?
No! Absolutely not! Here's why..
I want a system that won't be out of date for what I want it to do. 2 years ago it was CS, and my system has lasted pretty well. Now it's doom3. Sure I could just get that cheapo AGP 9700, but you gotta remember, next year is when we toss out AGP for PCI express.
Say hello new mobo/cpu/vidcard combo (possibly ram, since Rambus seems like a dead choice now) because now AGP is obsolete.
I don't know why this is regarded as a troll. Everyone i've ever talked to that's been inside HP (i've worked at a spinoff, another story) talks about just how politically savage the enviroment is. Let's not forget Dilbert was actually based from real experiences from within HP. (Yes PHB's are real)
Over the last 3 or so years the birthplace of HP Silicon Valley, has seen no less than 300,000 jobs either eliminated or shipped overseas. That's just one huge bite out of the total number of united states jobs.
Let's talk about that number real quick, the $70,000,000 million dollars for 2 jets. That's not even accounting for maintence, flight crew, and airport costs. Could the exec's attend virtual meetings using robots and telepresence? Sure, if they knew how to use a gamers "WADS" interface. Would it cost $70,000,000? I highly doubt it.
I read all the time about the problem with higher forms of robotics, and the problem of random terrain navigation does not become one that is from a lack of algorithms. We know how the robot is supposed to get over the random terrain, we just can't make it think fast enough to have a desiarable reaction time.
HP is dumping the Alpha for one reason. They don't welcome our new robot overlords. I AM THE PHB-9000
Firehosegives you
that power. FIREHOSE gives you a basic data transfer over multiple network
devices supporting TCP/IP layers. Stripe multiple 100Mbit, Gigabit, 10 Gigabit,
or firewire to give one humungous pipe for firehosing your gigabytes and
gigabytes of data
There's one HUGE obstacle they would have to overcome though, and that's hardware vendor support.
A hardware company chooses what OS they will release drivers for and as a result Apple would completely be at the mercy of companies that produce them.
Are these subject lines anti Bayesian filters? Just curious cause they've been getting weird lately..
Xanax_-_No_Prescription_Needed_-_neonatal Kuasx ep Pharmaceuticals including Valiumm, prozac, aAmbientforth mw Enter to win free cigarettes pedant Fight Aging and Skin Cancer Xpxtdp Bigger Penis is Better betsy
I'm just curious why my spam lately seems to just have weird random junk in the subject line, I actually find it sort of amusing because some of the randomness reminds me of turetL}...yndrome.
Since they invented the genre. I know the point you're trying to make but it's a moot one. Go ahead, name any non african american R&B or rap artist and I will name 100 that are.
I've never heard of this guy. Reading the article, there was a picture of him, ahh! African American! My wife loves R&B and Rap, she must know who he is!!
beep bop bo be bee bop beep (Me calling her at work)
Me:"Hi sweetie, do you know who Anthony Hamilton is?" her:"Am I supposed to know?" me:"Nah just checking"
So why would this no name loser worry about DRM? Heck, I wouldn't even know his name if it wasn't for my primary news source (slash) Maybe if he offered a few songs for free via MP3 i'd be inclined to waste some bandwidth downloading his music.
Oh plug here.. I'm working with the grandson of Duke Ellington on his website, he offers free MP3 samples of his music (reg req)
I've been playing around with the ACS parallel port stepper motor controller lately. Sure you can build your own controller but this way you don't risk frying a parallel port (and it's only 20 bucks) It's really easy to program it in basic, and i've been using the C examples to get an idea on how C works (My brain is bastardized by atari basic)
I was also going to suggest some lego's or erector sets as a platform for the stepper motors, but then I came across this link to a company called 80/20 that makes Industrial Erector Sets.
So for $20, a few broken floppy drives (for stepper motors), an Erector set and an old computer, you can give this guy the building blocks he needs to build his own robots. Right now mine runs from an old Pentium 133 laptop in dos. It may not be cutting edge but controlling real world objects by programming your computer is a great way to get someone's wheels spinning. If you really want this thing expensive, get the guy the "Industrial Erector Set" peices and the latest greatest Athlon PC.
If you really want an ecologicly friendly source of power look into electric eels. Sure they're a bit slimey and would get you weird looks from airport customs, but for anyone looking for a macho ego boost, "Is that an eel in your pocket or are you just happy too see me?"
When 12 hours of straight time in front of a CRT causes my eyeballs to yearn to roll out of their sockets, i'll lay on the couch in front of the TV and watch the news.
I stopped taking newspapers/magazines to the toilet. I never kept up with sports, so it's an odd issue when people bring it up. Most of my political views are biased based on what I read here, and other "Geek" sites. So naturally I follow canidates that are in line with my slashdot/open source influenced thinking.
Most of what I read in paper and see on telivision convinces me that those media houses do not cater to my specific needs. Their agenda's vector is not parallel with mine so I just stopped paying attention to them. I have a choice in who I want to listen too, and I don't want my news/entertainment to be be influenced too much by their advertisers. A banner ad is much less obtrusive than a 1/4 page print ad or a 30 second commercial. I think this also has something to do with the fact that electronic publishing is much cheaper than traditional means, so online editors are more likely to stand up for their journalistic integrity unlike the print and TV broadcast outfits, which so blatenly use product placement.
If product placement on movie and TV set's looked anything like my reality the desks would be filled with empty Mtn Dew cans overflowing with cigarrette butts and empty marlboro packages. Luckily my dog likes to lick my TV dinners clean otherwise I'd have moldy discarded TV dinner plates strewn about as well (She makes a really neat pile of cleaned ones though)
I've been toying around with this idea for a while, basically all I have now is a hacked stupid ass script that decodes yenc encoded binaries from a paticular newsgroup, creates a.torrent hash on the message, then seeds the message with btdownloadheadless. (I did this so some friends on a different ISP that didn't carry the paticular group could reap it's rich rewards)
Why can't the same principal with web boards be applied with bittorrent? Simply wget the page you want, create a.torrent hash, seed.
(runs off to script)
Want to learn how to interface electronics to a PC
on
2.6 Ton Pinball Machine
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· Score: 3, Informative
This site has been very usefull to me. http://www.aaroncake.net/circuits/index.asp
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Lately i've been rearing my ugly head at this page. The author has schematics for interfacing it to the LPT port, as well as software examples. I built my own interface using a rapid prototype board.
For those too scared to venture into building the interface themselves, I found this unit for less than $20 bucks from a company called ACS out in Florida. Unfortunately due to economic conditions, I cannot even afford that, but great looking product guys.
$500 is tooo much, i'd rather just interface steppers through the LPT and save an extra $380.
The Maxtor was 40gb
The Atlas was 9gb
The Atlas obviously had less tracks too seek through than the Maxtor because it had 1/4 of the total number of tracks the maxtor did. This would totally account for the 1/3 speed increase seen over the IDE solution.
Also to take into consideration is how much buffer each drive has. If I remember right, Atlas's have like 8 megs of buffer, while the 40 gig maxtors have like 2.
These folks are the ones who piss away their money, so folks like me can get useless and obsolete hardware, like the terribly out-of-date Radeon 9700, for cheap cheap cheap.
I look at it a little differently...
A few YEARS back, I got myself a P4 1.4, latest gforce2gts, scsi 160 and an 18 gig drive.
The SCSI drive is dead, replaced by cheaper but higher capacity IDE's. The rest of the system is still intact.
The only game I really play alot is CS, so for me this system suits my needs just fine. In a few months or so, doom3 will be out, will I rush out and get a cheapo 9700 so I can get my FPS fix for the game?
No! Absolutely not! Here's why..
I want a system that won't be out of date for what I want it to do. 2 years ago it was CS, and my system has lasted pretty well. Now it's doom3. Sure I could just get that cheapo AGP 9700, but you gotta remember, next year is when we toss out AGP for PCI express.
Say hello new mobo/cpu/vidcard combo (possibly ram, since Rambus seems like a dead choice now) because now AGP is obsolete.
Good for the HP Execs! (Score:2, Troll)
I don't know why this is regarded as a troll. Everyone i've ever talked to that's been inside HP (i've worked at a spinoff, another story) talks about just how politically savage the enviroment is. Let's not forget Dilbert was actually based from real experiences from within HP. (Yes PHB's are real)
Over the last 3 or so years the birthplace of HP Silicon Valley, has seen no less than 300,000 jobs either eliminated or shipped overseas. That's just one huge bite out of the total number of united states jobs.
Let's talk about that number real quick, the $70,000,000 million dollars for 2 jets. That's not even accounting for maintence, flight crew, and airport costs. Could the exec's attend virtual meetings using robots and telepresence? Sure, if they knew how to use a gamers "WADS" interface. Would it cost $70,000,000? I highly doubt it.
I read all the time about the problem with higher forms of robotics, and the problem of random terrain navigation does not become one that is from a lack of algorithms. We know how the robot is supposed to get over the random terrain, we just can't make it think fast enough to have a desiarable reaction time.
HP is dumping the Alpha for one reason. They don't welcome our new robot overlords. I AM THE PHB-9000
I can finally include my cat on my kaiser?
Firehosegives you that power. FIREHOSE gives you a basic data transfer over multiple network devices supporting TCP/IP layers. Stripe multiple 100Mbit, Gigabit, 10 Gigabit, or firewire to give one humungous pipe for firehosing your gigabytes and gigabytes of data
I'm just replying because I agree with you. The redundant mod was unfair (paticularly because I didn't know Linus had left transmeta)
Wake up mods!
There's one HUGE obstacle they would have to overcome though, and that's hardware vendor support.
A hardware company chooses what OS they will release drivers for and as a result Apple would completely be at the mercy of companies that produce them.
Are these subject lines anti Bayesian filters? Just curious cause they've been getting weird lately..
x ep Pharmaceuticals including Valiumm, prozac, aAmbientforth mw
Xanax_-_No_Prescription_Needed_-_neonatal
Kuas
Enter to win free cigarettes pedant
Fight Aging and Skin Cancer Xpxtdp
Bigger Penis is Better betsy
I'm just curious why my spam lately seems to just have weird random junk in the subject line, I actually find it sort of amusing because some of the randomness reminds me of turetL}...yndrome.
maybe even some playing punk, who knows
Yeah, bad brains comes to mind.
Since when does African American = R&B or Rap?
Since they invented the genre. I know the point you're trying to make but it's a moot one. Go ahead, name any non african american R&B or rap artist and I will name 100 that are.
beep bop bo be bee bop beep (Me calling her at work)
Me:"Hi sweetie, do you know who Anthony Hamilton is?"
her:"Am I supposed to know?"
me:"Nah just checking"
So why would this no name loser worry about DRM? Heck, I wouldn't even know his name if it wasn't for my primary news source (slash) Maybe if he offered a few songs for free via MP3 i'd be inclined to waste some bandwidth downloading his music.
Oh plug here.. I'm working with the grandson of Duke Ellington on his website, he offers free MP3 samples of his music (reg req)
click here
If the grandson of one of America's greatest musicians can get with the program, why can't all these big wigs at BMI do the same?ACS parallel port stepper motor controller lately. Sure you can build your
own controller but this way you don't risk frying a parallel port (and it's only
20 bucks) It's really easy to program it in basic, and i've been using the
C examples to get an idea on how C works (My brain is bastardized by atari
basic)
I was also going to suggest some lego's or erector sets as a platform for the
stepper motors, but then I came across this link
to a company called 80/20 that makes Industrial Erector Sets.
So for $20, a few broken floppy drives (for stepper motors), an Erector set
and an old computer, you can give this guy the building blocks he needs to build
his own robots. Right now mine runs from an old Pentium 133 laptop in dos.
It may not be cutting edge but controlling real world objects by programming
your computer is a great way to get someone's wheels spinning. If you really want this thing expensive, get the guy the "Industrial Erector Set" peices and the latest greatest Athlon PC.
"Computer! What's the situation down on the planet?"
I thought in the ST world computers cannot handle complex nuiances of the english language like contractions.
If you really want an ecologicly friendly source of power look into electric eels. Sure they're a bit slimey and would get you weird looks from airport customs, but for anyone looking for a macho ego boost, "Is that an eel in your pocket or are you just happy too see me?"
Despite my P4 1.4 and GF2-GTS card showing it's age, I know now is not the right time to go out and get upgrades..
2004 we should start seeing BTX motherboards with PCI express on them, ATI has already announced support for PCI express.
So why buy anything AGP right now? It's going to be phased out by next year!
Bittorrent links to the mame romset, just because I felt like it.
MAME 0 72 ROMS 0-C
MAME 0 72 ROMS D-F
MAME 0 72 ROMS G-I
MAME 0 72 ROMS J-K
MAME 0 72 ROMS L-M
MAME 0 72 ROMS N-Q
MAME 0 72 ROMS R-Se
MAME 0 72 ROMS Sf-Sz
MAME 0 72 ROMS T-Z
This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox
Notice where his hand is? Me thinks he *IS* creaming his pants.what else do most (90% of corp users) need?
An OS compatible with the "Just install this dialer to get access to TONS OF PRON!" software that I so often find on the laptops of company officers?
When 12 hours of straight time in front of a CRT causes my eyeballs to yearn to roll out of their sockets, i'll lay on the couch in front of the TV and watch the news.
I stopped taking newspapers/magazines to the toilet.
I never kept up with sports, so it's an odd issue when people bring it up.
Most of my political views are biased based on what I read here, and other "Geek" sites. So naturally I follow canidates that are in line with my slashdot/open source influenced thinking.
Most of what I read in paper and see on telivision convinces me that those media houses do not cater to my specific needs. Their agenda's vector is not parallel with mine so I just stopped paying attention to them. I have a choice in who I want to listen too, and I don't want my news/entertainment to be be influenced too much by their advertisers. A banner ad is much less obtrusive than a 1/4 page print ad or a 30 second commercial. I think this also has something to do with the fact that electronic publishing is much cheaper than traditional means, so online editors are more likely to stand up for their journalistic integrity unlike the print and TV broadcast outfits, which so blatenly use product placement.
No, I don't really use traditional news anymore.
Don't give them any ideas!
If product placement on movie and TV set's looked anything like my reality the desks would be filled with empty Mtn Dew cans overflowing with cigarrette butts and empty marlboro packages. Luckily my dog likes to lick my TV dinners clean otherwise I'd have moldy discarded TV dinner plates strewn about as well (She makes a really neat pile of cleaned ones though)
Maybe he's a troll, and you've been hooked, lined, and sinkered.
I've been toying around with this idea for a while, basically all I have now is a hacked stupid ass script that decodes yenc encoded binaries from a paticular newsgroup, creates a .torrent hash on the message, then seeds the message with btdownloadheadless. (I did this so some friends on a different ISP that didn't carry the paticular group could reap it's rich rewards)
.torrent hash, seed.
Why can't the same principal with web boards be applied with bittorrent? Simply wget the page you want, create a
(runs off to script)
This site has been very usefull to me.
http://www.aaroncake.net/circuits/index.asp