Otherwise, make an HTML page of your playlists and let the browser fire up the player. Lots of ways to approach this.
If you want a ready-made way to try this, check out jwz's gronk HTML based jukebox.
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Nope, Dreamcast has CE built in if games want to use it, but my understanding is that almost no games use it and instead use all of their own routines to handle hardware interfacing and OS type tasks.
The TDK player... says it has an 8 minute anti-skip buffer when running in MP3 mode
The thing to keep in mind is that an audio CD has a data rate of 44100 * 16 * 2 = 1.4 Mbits/s, while MP3s are often 128 Kbits/s, or about 12 times less. Consider that most CD portables have a 40 second anti-skip memory, and you've got enough data to hold about 8 minutes of MP3 data.
Also, because the data rate is so much lower than for CD audio, the disc could actually spin down most of the time.
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That should be your school (with a.ca) since despite the generous evidence to the contrary, Waterloo hasn't completely sold out to commercial interestes yet.
UW's resnet is a bit of a joke. All I can say is I'm glad I'm no longer a student.
jobs.osdn.com was put together by a Toronto-based firm, DevelopersNetwork. DevelopersNetwork is a Microsoft shop, and thus jobs.osdn.com is run on Microsoft "servers." There's even a page at jobs.osdn.com that explains the situation.
It's called emulation. Basically, there's a microcontroller in the smartcard that receives control messages from the satellite receiver set-top, and acts on those messages to enable or disable channels that you have access to. This microcontroller can be remotely reprogrammed, which is how DirecTV disables pirated cards (by reprogramming it with useless code).
What you do with an emulation setup is get an old PC, and emulate the operation of the microcontroller (an 8051) in the PC. That way, if the code gets reprogrammed, you don't have a useless card, just a PC to reboot.
There's also a DirecTV emulator for linux called Pitou, as mentioned previously on Slashdot. That one's pretty neat, since it's based on an existing 8052 simulator called ucsim, and it allows you to use a descrambling card across TCP/IP. Pitou's home page is on sourceforge.
Mainly because it's very hard to build an accurate oscillator in an IC. Some microcontrollers have a "crystal-less" oscillator but they use an external RC (resistor-capacitor) network for setting the clock period. You'd probably get around +/- 20% if you're lucky. They're probably using one oscillator to drive everything (VGA circuitry, USB host, etc.) with a number of PLLs to get the various individual clocks they need, and things like USB and VGA need accurate clock frequencies.
Well, rebel took down only their main page so google's cache comes in handy here. Also, the only links of any importance on that page are to their Netwinder division, and to the Enterprise pages, both of which still work right now.
In case the links stop working, or Google gets moody, the following pages link to google's caches:
Re:One goes down - another goes up
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This hardware actually goes back to the Moreton Bay NETtel platform. Moreton Bay were the guys that ported Linux to the Coldfire (slashdot story) and were then acquired by Lineo. There are some pictures of Coldfire Linux based boards, including the original Moreton Bay NETtel.
Re:Appliances have always been in trouble....
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The problem with netwinders is that they were overpriced,
underpowered, and too loud (!) for the home hobbyist market.
Speaking of being loud, have a look at these fan modifications to make it quiet enough to leave on all the time.
That's a very good point. The TiVo runs Linux and does quite well, exactly because it's a personal video recorder that happens to run Linux, not a Linux box that records video.
Actually, I'd say you're just about spot on. They were working on a Crusoe-based version for their "next big thing" but it was still going to be underpowered compared to what's available.
They did support netwinder.org which was a netwinder "community" site. They even had personal pages put up by some of their employees with pictures of the internals, a 15 node beowulf cluster of caseless netwinders, and a page describing how to change the horrid little fan inside them to one that's a lot quieter. Unfortunately it seems this was stored on Rebel.com's fileserver which has disappeared.
They are nice little machines. The size of the box is just about perfect, and they run off 12V so you can make a UPS out of a car battery. But I guess that's the sort of thing that appeals to geeks, and as you noted they mostly stopped caring about the geeks.
A little note from within Rebel.com
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Yesterday Andrew E. Mileski, a senior software developer at Rebel.com, posted the following to the netwinder.announce newsgroup on netwinder.org:
Rebel.com pulled the plug on NetWinder.org's fileserver.
[And the Rebel.com mail server's fileserver.]
The following services have been disabled on NetWinder.org:
ftp
rsync
pop (internal)
Web access to member directories will also not work.
I don't know for certain what will happen with mail,
but assume it will be spooled.
We, the people behind NetWinder.org, will try to rectify the
situation ASAP.
Solar cars are very clean running vehicles. Basically you can get a little bit of gas released from the batteries during operation.
However, building them and their eventual disposal is another story. Lots of nasty chemicals are involved in the production of solar cells. In addition, the batteries especially present disposal issues (lead in lead-acid batteries, other nasties in other battery types.
Speaking of being on the road at the same time as "real" cars, the first solar car at my university (Univ. of Waterloo) was hit by a pickup truck that was passing a vehicle in the oncoming lane. Well, our solar car happened to be in that lane and we were forced into the ditch. The driver was unhurt but the car couldn't finish the race.
It's kind of funny, I was in a post office last week to mail off a letter, and I saw the CDs sitting on the counter. Canada Post selling internet access, I thought to my self, how silly is that?
I looked a little closer at the CD and noticed that it was just a 3web CD. Since 3web went under a while ago, I thought it was strange that Canada Post was still selling the CDs. Oh well, I guess it just took some time for the memo to get around.
Perhaps SGI designed the processor itself, but I believe the intellectual property does actually belong to MIPS. Just as LSI, QED (now PMC Sierra), IDT, etc. design MIPS based processors with MIPS IP. (MIPS does not, of course, actually manufacture any processors; it's an IP only company.)
I did find this page of "MIPS-Based(TM) Products" at MIPS, which lists SGI's machines. That page states "Design efforts utilizing MIPS® intellectual property are continuing for the system and server markets by Silicon Graphics."
Also notice that SGI's R10000 processor page includes the following at the bottom: "R10000, ANDES, and Avalanche are trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc."
To me it looks like SGI behaves like any of MIPS licensees; they use intellectual property that (now) belongs to MIPS Technologies Inc., and design their processors using that. Perhaps there is an agreement between MIPS and SGI, but I couldn't find details of it. I'd be very appreciative (really) if you can show evidence to the contrary. I'm not trying to be argumentative; I would actually like to know how this is set up.
I'm paying about $40.00 plus tax right now. But I'm a Rogers@Home subscriber, in Ontario, thus that's Canadian dollars. So that's around $30 US after taxes. I guess it's not a bad deal.
It doesn't depend on the choice of map, as indicated in the article. The easiest way to explain is by quoting the code mentioned in the "article:"
# Find the mean location of Debian developers
x_av = x/NR; y_av = y/NR; z_av = z/NR;
# Project the point onto the surface
long_av = atan2(x_av, -y_av);
lat_av = atan2(z_av, sqrt(x_av*x_av + y_av*y_av));
# Convert back to degrees and print
printf "%+8.2f %+8.2f \"Average\"\n",
lat_av / 3.14159 * 180, long_av / 3.14159 * 180;
In other words, what they are doing is what you suggest. They're calculating the 3D centre of mass (in XYZ coordinates) and then projecting that point onto the surface of the sphere.
Now, as some other comment pointed out, this isn't technically valid. But they are doing what you suggested.
Well, yeah, I can see Illustrator being the brand and "vector graphics creation software" being the generic product description. (Quoted text from adobe's site.) Unlike Kleenex and Windex, however, Illustrator is actually a word and gives a reasonable idea of what the product might be.
To satisfy your curiosity, I do know someone who asked me to suggest some "software for illustrations." I'm sure they'd never heard of "vector graphics creation software." Granted, most people who deal with this sort of software would be slightly more knowledgable.
Also, I do think the terms "tissue" and "glass cleaner" are in common use. When I read my comment again, I see why it would be confusing. What I meant is that there is a common, generic product description associated with Kleenex (tissues), but it is not commonly used in conjuction with the brand name to describe the product. Everyone I know would say "can I have a Kleenex," not "can I have a Kleenex tissue," or "where can I find the Windex," not "where can I find the Windex glass cleaner."
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If you want a ready-made way to try this, check out jwz's gronk HTML based jukebox.
Nope, Dreamcast has CE built in if games want to use it, but my understanding is that almost no games use it and instead use all of their own routines to handle hardware interfacing and OS type tasks.
The thing to keep in mind is that an audio CD has a data rate of 44100 * 16 * 2 = 1.4 Mbits/s, while MP3s are often 128 Kbits/s, or about 12 times less. Consider that most CD portables have a 40 second anti-skip memory, and you've got enough data to hold about 8 minutes of MP3 data.
Also, because the data rate is so much lower than for CD audio, the disc could actually spin down most of the time.
UW's resnet is a bit of a joke. All I can say is I'm glad I'm no longer a student.
What you do with an emulation setup is get an old PC, and emulate the operation of the microcontroller (an 8051) in the PC. That way, if the code gets reprogrammed, you don't have a useless card, just a PC to reboot.
There's some background information on emulation at canadahu.com.
There's also a DirecTV emulator for linux called Pitou, as mentioned previously on Slashdot. That one's pretty neat, since it's based on an existing 8052 simulator called ucsim, and it allows you to use a descrambling card across TCP/IP. Pitou's home page is on sourceforge.
Mainly because it's very hard to build an accurate oscillator in an IC. Some microcontrollers have a "crystal-less" oscillator but they use an external RC (resistor-capacitor) network for setting the clock period. You'd probably get around +/- 20% if you're lucky. They're probably using one oscillator to drive everything (VGA circuitry, USB host, etc.) with a number of PLLs to get the various individual clocks they need, and things like USB and VGA need accurate clock frequencies.
Well, rebel took down only their main page so google's cache comes in handy here. Also, the only links of any importance on that page are to their Netwinder division, and to the Enterprise pages, both of which still work right now.
In case the links stop working, or Google gets moody, the following pages link to google's caches:
This hardware actually goes back to the Moreton Bay NETtel platform. Moreton Bay were the guys that ported Linux to the Coldfire (slashdot story) and were then acquired by Lineo. There are some pictures of Coldfire Linux based boards, including the original Moreton Bay NETtel.
The problem with netwinders is that they were overpriced, underpowered, and too loud (!) for the home hobbyist market.
Speaking of being loud, have a look at these fan modifications to make it quiet enough to leave on all the time.
There's also a good series of NetWinder internalspictures. It's a great little machine for hacking on.
That's a very good point. The TiVo runs Linux and does quite well, exactly because it's a personal video recorder that happens to run Linux, not a Linux box that records video.
Actually, I'd say you're just about spot on. They were working on a Crusoe-based version for their "next big thing" but it was still going to be underpowered compared to what's available.
They did support netwinder.org which was a netwinder "community" site. They even had personal pages put up by some of their employees with pictures of the internals, a 15 node beowulf cluster of caseless netwinders, and a page describing how to change the horrid little fan inside them to one that's a lot quieter. Unfortunately it seems this was stored on Rebel.com's fileserver which has disappeared.
They are nice little machines. The size of the box is just about perfect, and they run off 12V so you can make a UPS out of a car battery. But I guess that's the sort of thing that appeals to geeks, and as you noted they mostly stopped caring about the geeks.
Yesterday Andrew E. Mileski, a senior software developer at Rebel.com, posted the following to the netwinder.announce newsgroup on netwinder.org:
That's really funny, since there's someone outside my appartment playing the trumpet right now and it sounds like they're playing it with their butt.
Solar cars are very clean running vehicles. Basically you can get a little bit of gas released from the batteries during operation.
However, building them and their eventual disposal is another story. Lots of nasty chemicals are involved in the production of solar cells. In addition, the batteries especially present disposal issues (lead in lead-acid batteries, other nasties in other battery types.
Speaking of being on the road at the same time as "real" cars, the first solar car at my university (Univ. of Waterloo) was hit by a pickup truck that was passing a vehicle in the oncoming lane. Well, our solar car happened to be in that lane and we were forced into the ditch. The driver was unhurt but the car couldn't finish the race.
More info at the Midnight Sun history page.
It's kind of funny, I was in a post office last week to mail off a letter, and I saw the CDs sitting on the counter. Canada Post selling internet access, I thought to my self, how silly is that?
I looked a little closer at the CD and noticed that it was just a 3web CD. Since 3web went under a while ago, I thought it was strange that Canada Post was still selling the CDs. Oh well, I guess it just took some time for the memo to get around.
Perhaps SGI designed the processor itself, but I believe the intellectual property does actually belong to MIPS. Just as LSI, QED (now PMC Sierra), IDT, etc. design MIPS based processors with MIPS IP. (MIPS does not, of course, actually manufacture any processors; it's an IP only company.)
I did find this page of "MIPS-Based(TM) Products" at MIPS, which lists SGI's machines. That page states "Design efforts utilizing MIPS® intellectual property are continuing for the system and server markets by Silicon Graphics."
Also notice that SGI's R10000 processor page includes the following at the bottom: "R10000, ANDES, and Avalanche are trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc."
To me it looks like SGI behaves like any of MIPS licensees; they use intellectual property that (now) belongs to MIPS Technologies Inc., and design their processors using that. Perhaps there is an agreement between MIPS and SGI, but I couldn't find details of it. I'd be very appreciative (really) if you can show evidence to the contrary. I'm not trying to be argumentative; I would actually like to know how this is set up.
I'm paying about $40.00 plus tax right now. But I'm a Rogers@Home subscriber, in Ontario, thus that's Canadian dollars. So that's around $30 US after taxes. I guess it's not a bad deal.
Silicon Graphics still develops IRIX and MIPS processors.
Actually, Silicon Graphics has nothing to do with MIPS anymnore, other than perhaps being one of MIPS' best customers. Around a year ago SGI got rid of its remaining stake in MIPS Technologies Inc..
It doesn't depend on the choice of map, as indicated in the article. The easiest way to explain is by quoting the code mentioned in the "article:"
# Find the mean location of Debian developersx_av = x/NR; y_av = y/NR; z_av = z/NR;
# Project the point onto the surface
long_av = atan2(x_av, -y_av);
lat_av = atan2(z_av, sqrt(x_av*x_av + y_av*y_av));
# Convert back to degrees and print
printf "%+8.2f %+8.2f \"Average\"\n",
lat_av / 3.14159 * 180, long_av / 3.14159 * 180;
In other words, what they are doing is what you suggest. They're calculating the 3D centre of mass (in XYZ coordinates) and then projecting that point onto the surface of the sphere.
Now, as some other comment pointed out, this isn't technically valid. But they are doing what you suggested.
To satisfy your curiosity, I do know someone who asked me to suggest some "software for illustrations." I'm sure they'd never heard of "vector graphics creation software." Granted, most people who deal with this sort of software would be slightly more knowledgable.
Also, I do think the terms "tissue" and "glass cleaner" are in common use. When I read my comment again, I see why it would be confusing. What I meant is that there is a common, generic product description associated with Kleenex (tissues), but it is not commonly used in conjuction with the brand name to describe the product. Everyone I know would say "can I have a Kleenex," not "can I have a Kleenex tissue," or "where can I find the Windex," not "where can I find the Windex glass cleaner."