In my high school theatre we have a clear-com system that we use for general communication but there are times on our larger productions in which it simply will not do. To remedy this, a friend and I hacked together a system by which to patch our clear-com output into our assisted listening devices. After completing this, we could give our stage crew boxes which would allow them to hear anything that went on on headset. We have two wireless microphones (1 lav, 1 handheld) which we gave to important crew members and patched their output back into the clear-com system. This allowed them to have two-way wireless communication using our existing equipment. Aside from that, I have had mixed luck with FRS depending on the space (all used on small productions). Another idea, if you are wanting to have use computers for this solution would be to install terminals on the sides of the stage which would run a custom software solution that would display cue information upon receiving commands from the stage manager. (I almost built this last year.) Also, a simple IRC system would work as well if you wanted text-based messaging but other than that, I think that a dedicated communications system would do you good.
My HS chem teacher loves this demo. Attach a peice of rubber tubing to one of the classroom gas jets and stick a funnel in the other end of it to spread out the gas. Put a bit a diswashing soap in a flat container. Place the funnel flat side down in the soap, turn on gas. You will create a tower of bubbles filled with methane. Once you get a tower going, you can slice it off with a yardstick or something like that and it will float to the ceiling (or just up, if you're doing it outside.) Light a match and toss it at the cloud. Large, cool-looking fireball.
Short of manually rewriting the ROM in the unit, would there be any way to port this OS to the ARM-based Newton platform? Does anyone know about the feasibility or of any current development?
So there i was, calmly performing a network install Mandrake 8.1 on a friendly little lab workstation when suddenly everything comes to a screeching halt. "What's this?" i think, "nothing to worry about, i'll just go get lunch and check on it later" hrmmm... still nothing. Oh well, it looks like the mirror that i was using decided to delete all of the 8.1 files to prepare to update itself for the release of 8.2. New versions are nice and all but my friendly little lab worstation isn't happy.
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A booms?
Looks to me like he came here to Ashland, probably got off at Exit 11...
In my high school theatre we have a clear-com system that we use for general communication but there are times on our larger productions in which it simply will not do. To remedy this, a friend and I hacked together a system by which to patch our clear-com output into our assisted listening devices. After completing this, we could give our stage crew boxes which would allow them to hear anything that went on on headset. We have two wireless microphones (1 lav, 1 handheld) which we gave to important crew members and patched their output back into the clear-com system. This allowed them to have two-way wireless communication using our existing equipment. Aside from that, I have had mixed luck with FRS depending on the space (all used on small productions). Another idea, if you are wanting to have use computers for this solution would be to install terminals on the sides of the stage which would run a custom software solution that would display cue information upon receiving commands from the stage manager. (I almost built this last year.) Also, a simple IRC system would work as well if you wanted text-based messaging but other than that, I think that a dedicated communications system would do you good.
A few friends and I found an old linux copy of Myth 2 the other day sitting around the house and it supplied us with days of great fun.
How long do you think it will be before Microsoft decides to proclaim that open source software supports terrorism?
My HS chem teacher loves this demo. Attach a peice of rubber tubing to one of the classroom gas jets and stick a funnel in the other end of it to spread out the gas. Put a bit a diswashing soap in a flat container. Place the funnel flat side down in the soap, turn on gas. You will create a tower of bubbles filled with methane. Once you get a tower going, you can slice it off with a yardstick or something like that and it will float to the ceiling (or just up, if you're doing it outside.) Light a match and toss it at the cloud. Large, cool-looking fireball.
*picks up Newton from his desk*
*writes "egg freckles"*
*waits for recognition*
*taps assist*
*chuckles*
Short of manually rewriting the ROM in the unit, would there be any way to port this OS to the ARM-based Newton platform? Does anyone know about the feasibility or of any current development?
So there i was, calmly performing a network install Mandrake 8.1 on a friendly little lab workstation when suddenly everything comes to a screeching halt. "What's this?" i think, "nothing to worry about, i'll just go get lunch and check on it later" hrmmm... still nothing. Oh well, it looks like the mirror that i was using decided to delete all of the 8.1 files to prepare to update itself for the release of 8.2. New versions are nice and all but my friendly little lab worstation isn't happy.