User: KarlH420

Wired Article from Jan 2001

On: How The DMCA Is Enforced

A
Wired article ( Pirates Beware: We're Watching ) from Jan 2001 covers this same topic.

Analog input

On: Using Joystick Ports to Measure Case Temperature?

Basicly your just doing analog input. Joystick port should work. Otherwise you could use the "line in" of your sound card. Youl have to code a way to bring in the signal from the joysick port or soundcard line in. I'm sure you can find a libary out there that someone has written to read the A/D value. Setup a VREF 4.096V zener precision references for some accuracy. Othrwises you could just refrence the NTC thermistor off any 5V or so line. Setup a votage divider circuit.

VREF----
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* 100K or larger resistor
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|---- signal to voltage input
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* 30K @ 25C NTC Thermistor
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---- gnd

Cheaper than the Big Dig!

On: Calling the Space Elevator

The BIG DIG i think is now over $12B although it was origainally estimated to cost $2.6B

I hate to recomend these but..

On: Internet Access While Traveling Outside U.S.?

AOL, MSN, and Compuserve all have dialup acces across western europe. I've used them in Germany and France before. I'm not sure which other US ISP's have offer service in europe

Do some drive testing

On: Increasing the Transfer Rate?

Benchmark your drive performace on the server to the drives. Maybee use bonnie++ find out how much bandwidth you can get from your server to the drives.

Wouldn't hurt to max the machine out in SDRAM and add gig ethernet too.

Re:uClinux

On: GPL'd Embedded Development Tools?

This is not somthing you do DSP with.

Source Navigator

On: GCC-based IDE's for DOS?

Try Source Navigator. It works on windows, and UNIX's

digikey

On: Where Can You Buy Jumpers?

order online from Digikey.

Assuming you want .1" jumpers:

In the lower right hand corner of P65. or in the lower left of P66

other sizes are available too.

Mouser probally has them too.

Voice modem with vgetty

On: Build Your Own Phone Tree?

An old PC with voice modem and vgetty would do the trick. vgetty can turn any PC with a voice modem into an answering machine. vgettty would record the message. Then some script could go through the call list of numbers you have, and play the message to them.

twm

On: Lightweight Window Managers?

I've run twm on a 486 DX2 50Mhz With 12M RAM. Runs pretty good. Otherwise blackbox is also very lightweight.