Sorry, I thought with the:-) people would have realized I was just trying to make a joke, but I guess I'm not the only one humor impaired at 3am when submitting/. articles. I actually have everything built into my one massive tower, on a 450watt power supply. Oh well, at least there are over 30 comments and no one has pointed out gramatical or spelling errors yet:-)
My floor in the dorm, Thomas Jefferson 4 North at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has done this for years. 16 control boxes controlling a total of 96 strands of lights individually. They are also controlled by the serial port of an old 486 running slackware. This year we even played pong. We'll have pictures and a video up soon hopefully at this page. Okay, so the video won't be that high quality, but the lights kick ass.
yes, they claim they *will* have an echange plugin, but not until next year. this means vaporware for now. Not only that, but it will be released under a proprietary licence and cost nearly $70 for one, or $600 for a ten pack. I could buy MS Office XP Premium through my school for less than $70, so what's the advantage of evolution if you have to buy the exchange plugin at an exorbanant amount of money?
actually I think the new maintainer did the right thing this time. He had -pre1 sitting there for about a week letting people hammer at it, and people didn't have any major problems with it, so he released it (with a slight tweak to the 8139too driver to make it compile with gcc 3.0.2).
No power cable or controllers, just the ps2. A guy down the hall from me had a spare power cable and rca plugs. I just searched for ps2, and found one with 15 minutes left for $16, after some heavy last minute bidding I won.
I don't know about the XBox, but my ps2 is a great dvd player. I got it on ebay for $24 (great find) plus an ifrared remote control for it from walmart for $20. I'm not really a gamer, but $44 is not a bad price for a pretty decent dvd/cd player.
I know, whore, whatever. I figured I'd mirror the text before the site goes down.
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Well, I had almost no replies to the original post, lets see if
quadrupling bounty will help any! The bounty is now 20000$.
Please, if you are interested, contact me.
Also note that I'm interested in either completion of Fabrice Bellard's
code (on http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/linmodem.html) or Jamie Lokier's
code (on http://www.tantalophile.demon.co.uk/)
Hi,
I'm interested in completion of Fabrice Bellard or Jamie Lokier's GPL'd
softmodem code. I'm willing to place a 20000$ bounty on this project. If
you are interested in picking this bounty, please contact me for further
details.
Notes:
* Your code will be placed under GPL
* Code must not rely on DSP, pure C required.
* You MUST have background in signal processing
* You are free to reuse other GPL'd software (virtual UART and LAP/M are
ones that are already implemented in other software).
* Pieces needed to finish:
a) v.32/v.32bis modulation/demodulation
b) full v.34 negotiation (modulation/demodulation is done)
c) analog part of v.90 and v.90 negotiation
d) virtual UART
e) v.8 negotiation of all of the above
f) v.42bis/LAPM and MNP5 (and v.42 negotiation)
g) Hayes-like AT commands/registers (integrated with all of above)
I will provide the relevant ITU specs, test hardware, and specs for
testing.
If you think the bounty is inadequate, I'm willing to talk about price.
Agreed! Back in high school (was it really that long ago?) I wasted many hours playing tetris on my ti-83. I could play by myself, or anyone else with a TI calculator, because the "networking" code was platform idependant. Now I waste time in my upper level CS classes playing the old bsdgames in slackware on laptop. I no the code, my assignments are done before they're even assigned, and my professors don't really care because they no I know my stuff. Nothing like paying $10,000/year for a small piece of paper.
reduntant my ass, I was the 3rd post on this story, everyone else copied me, but your lazy ass didn't get around to moderating until way after the fact.
I think he was trying to be witty in the original post on/. when he said "consume less heat", pointing out that it should have said "produce less heat".
yes, and it seems to work fine, I can read loopback filesystems just fine. Reading some posts further down in the lkml, "just delete it" is Linus's advise, because those two lines never should have been there in the first place.
looks like this one isn't ready yet either. loop.c needs some sergery, or else the whole thing won't even compile, dying at
drivers/block/block.o: In function `lo_send':
drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x894f): undefined reference to `deactivate_page'
drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x8999): undefined reference to `deactivate_page'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
it's allready been posted to the lkml, look for a 2.4.15-pre1 or at least a loop.c patch to come around soon.
sorry, the "lame peice of hardware" bit was sarcasm, I know the 3do kicked ass, hell, I've still got one. Just goes to show what *might* happen again with multiple manufactures by showing what has happened in the past.
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Sorry, I thought with the :-) people would have realized I was just trying to make a joke, but I guess I'm not the only one humor impaired at 3am when submitting /. articles. I actually have everything built into my one massive tower, on a 450watt power supply. Oh well, at least there are over 30 comments and no one has pointed out gramatical or spelling errors yet :-)
look again, it does have spdif in and out silly
My floor in the dorm, Thomas Jefferson 4 North at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has done this for years. 16 control boxes controlling a total of 96 strands of lights individually. They are also controlled by the serial port of an old 486 running slackware. This year we even played pong. We'll have pictures and a video up soon hopefully at this page. Okay, so the video won't be that high quality, but the lights kick ass.
cruel and unusual punishment? on wait, they aren't in the US, go ahead!
no stability problems at all, it's rock solid. I'm not going to fix what isn't broken.
you no that's funny, because my dual 1.4Ghz athlon box is named SPACEHEATER, and it runs at a cool 65oC celcius
yes, they claim they *will* have an echange plugin, but not until next year. this means vaporware for now. Not only that, but it will be released under a proprietary licence and cost nearly $70 for one, or $600 for a ten pack. I could buy MS Office XP Premium through my school for less than $70, so what's the advantage of evolution if you have to buy the exchange plugin at an exorbanant amount of money?
check out easybuy2000.com, they've got some really cool cd-based mp3 players for $100. I got mine for $70 and couldn't be happier with it.
actually I think the new maintainer did the right thing this time. He had -pre1 sitting there for about a week letting people hammer at it, and people didn't have any major problems with it, so he released it (with a slight tweak to the 8139too driver to make it compile with gcc 3.0.2).
RCA to the tv, that little proprietary jack on the ps2. His ps2 was stolen last month but they left the power and video cables
No power cable or controllers, just the ps2. A guy down the hall from me had a spare power cable and rca plugs. I just searched for ps2, and found one with 15 minutes left for $16, after some heavy last minute bidding I won.
I don't know about the XBox, but my ps2 is a great dvd player. I got it on ebay for $24 (great find) plus an ifrared remote control for it from walmart for $20. I'm not really a gamer, but $44 is not a bad price for a pretty decent dvd/cd player.
I know, whore, whatever. I figured I'd mirror the text before the site goes down.
/. lameness filters.)
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Well, I had almost no replies to the original post, lets see if
quadrupling bounty will help any! The bounty is now 20000$.
Please, if you are interested, contact me.
Also note that I'm interested in either completion of Fabrice Bellard's
code (on http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/linmodem.html) or Jamie Lokier's
code (on http://www.tantalophile.demon.co.uk/)
Hi,
I'm interested in completion of Fabrice Bellard or Jamie Lokier's GPL'd
softmodem code. I'm willing to place a 20000$ bounty on this project. If
you are interested in picking this bounty, please contact me for further
details.
Notes:
* Your code will be placed under GPL
* Code must not rely on DSP, pure C required.
* You MUST have background in signal processing
* You are free to reuse other GPL'd software (virtual UART and LAP/M are
ones that are already implemented in other software).
* Pieces needed to finish:
a) v.32/v.32bis modulation/demodulation
b) full v.34 negotiation (modulation/demodulation is done)
c) analog part of v.90 and v.90 negotiation
d) virtual UART
e) v.8 negotiation of all of the above
f) v.42bis/LAPM and MNP5 (and v.42 negotiation)
g) Hayes-like AT commands/registers (integrated with all of above)
I will provide the relevant ITU specs, test hardware, and specs for
testing.
If you think the bounty is inadequate, I'm willing to talk about price.
-alex
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I went to Rolla to be an ing-e-neer, and now I are 1!
Agreed! Back in high school (was it really that long ago?) I wasted many hours playing tetris on my ti-83. I could play by myself, or anyone else with a TI calculator, because the "networking" code was platform idependant. Now I waste time in my upper level CS classes playing the old bsdgames in slackware on laptop. I no the code, my assignments are done before they're even assigned, and my professors don't really care because they no I know my stuff. Nothing like paying $10,000/year for a small piece of paper.
reduntant my ass, I was the 3rd post on this story, everyone else copied me, but your lazy ass didn't get around to moderating until way after the fact.
You got the arrows going both ways, does that mean it'll let us turn a PG movie into an R movie, adding the content we want? :-)
much like the psone of the last generation?
wow! a townie that admits he's a townie! That's unheard of in Rolla.
I think he was trying to be witty in the original post on /. when he said "consume less heat", pointing out that it should have said "produce less heat".
yes, and it seems to work fine, I can read loopback filesystems just fine. Reading some posts further down in the lkml, "just delete it" is Linus's advise, because those two lines never should have been there in the first place.
it's in loop.c, so you have to have compiled in loopback device support in order for this to effect you.
yeah, I know replying to ones' self if lame, whatever. Here is a patch from the lkml.
/home/chris/dontdiff -Naur linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c
diff -X
+linux-2.4.14-loop/drivers/block/loop.c
--- linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c Thu Oct 25 13:58:34 2001
+++ linux-2.4.14-loop/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Nov 5 17:06:08 2001
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@
index++;
pos += size;
UnlockPage(page);
- deactivate_page(page);
page_cache_release(page);
}
return 0;
@@ -218,7 +217,6 @@
kunmap(page);
unlock:
UnlockPage(page);
- deactivate_page(page);
page_cache_release(page);
fail:
return -1;
use at your own risk, or some of that legal junk.
looks like this one isn't ready yet either. loop.c needs some sergery, or else the whole thing won't even compile, dying at
drivers/block/block.o: In function `lo_send':
drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x894f): undefined reference to `deactivate_page'
drivers/block/block.o(.text+0x8999): undefined reference to `deactivate_page'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
it's allready been posted to the lkml, look for a 2.4.15-pre1 or at least a loop.c patch to come around soon.
sorry, the "lame peice of hardware" bit was sarcasm, I know the 3do kicked ass, hell, I've still got one. Just goes to show what *might* happen again with multiple manufactures by showing what has happened in the past.