"Everyone saying this is some sort of victory for Open Source is an illiterate moron, or didn't read the article"
Making the car -- mechanic interface non-proprietry is obviously not of interest to open-source advocates, right?!? Just like publishing the MsWord format would be useless without MsWord's source code?
4) Encrypting your email may 'flag' it, but at least nobody can read it without asking you first.
If police, the tax office, your ISP, your employer, and various civil servants can browse emails without justification, I'd certainly feel better if they had to persuade a court of law to ask me for my password, rather than just reading it and never telling me. At the very least, it eliminates 'trawling' through emails not involved in a crime.
"Go back to windows, do us all a favor..."
But first, write some decent skins for XMMS. It doesn't even compare to the skins available on WinAmp!
How do we entice artists onto linux?
What do you mean know "how to make a serial-port driver for LCDs"?
Rhetorical question really: I know how to do it, just can't be bothered at the moment.
Serial port: 9-pin connector with 3 wires, connect that to a UART IC which provides the parallel output.
LCD character display modules (£10 each, 2 lines x 9 characters) each use an 8-way parallel input, with a couple of power lines, a variable-voltage for the contrast adjustment, and an optional power supply for the backlight. Connect that right to the output of the UART.
For programming, just download the data sheet for the LCD, look up its command-set (about 5-6 instructions), look up the code for each "letter" (generally approximates ASCII), then write a perl-script to take the information you want and send it to the serial port.
I don't know much about winamp, nor about mobo monitoring (I use a pentium, so no need to!) but there are many freeware programs around which will take such information and send it to the serial port for you.
Final problem: the display modules are about a centimetre higher than a 5.25" blanking plate, so they won't fit in my PC, so who cares about the electronics if the thing itself won't fit? Besides, I hate to go to sleep with lights on (taped over all my power-socket neons, etc) so I don't want an LCD anyway. Who wants to look under their desk for information?
/me is about to print one of BlueFlash's images onto the side of his case: much cooler, higher-resolution, and infintely more attractive than an LCD.
Yeah, extra monitor: hundreds of pounds for the monitor, some more for a graphics card, and a whole heap of desk-space taken up. Cool, but not in the same league as case-moda.
LCD panel by comparaison: about $15 - $20 each, and I already have a couple lying around from tech projects. My question: how do you connect them if you're already using your printer-port for something? Anyone know how to make a serial-port driver for LCDs?
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"Everyone saying this is some sort of victory for Open Source is an illiterate moron, or didn't read the article"
Making the car -- mechanic interface non-proprietry is obviously not of interest to open-source advocates, right?!? Just like publishing the MsWord format would be useless without MsWord's source code?
4) Encrypting your email may 'flag' it, but at least nobody can read it without asking you first.
If police, the tax office, your ISP, your employer, and various civil servants can browse emails without justification, I'd certainly feel better if they had to persuade a court of law to ask me for my password, rather than just reading it and never telling me. At the very least, it eliminates 'trawling' through emails not involved in a crime.
"To allay suspicion, be sure to buy alcohol every time you go to the store."
Okay, no problem! Glad to help the fight against terrorism.
"we just approved a law preventing all banks from selling any of your information. First in the nation"
Your banks used to sell information? Damn, get a proper bank! What type of state makes banking details sellable?
Wine Is Not an Emulator!
"Go back to windows, do us all a favor..." But first, write some decent skins for XMMS. It doesn't even compare to the skins available on WinAmp! How do we entice artists onto linux?
What do you mean know "how to make a serial-port driver for LCDs"?
/me is about to print one of BlueFlash's images onto the side of his case: much cooler, higher-resolution, and infintely more attractive than an LCD.
Rhetorical question really: I know how to do it, just can't be bothered at the moment.
Serial port: 9-pin connector with 3 wires, connect that to a UART IC which provides the parallel output.
LCD character display modules (£10 each, 2 lines x 9 characters) each use an 8-way parallel input, with a couple of power lines, a variable-voltage for the contrast adjustment, and an optional power supply for the backlight. Connect that right to the output of the UART.
For programming, just download the data sheet for the LCD, look up its command-set (about 5-6 instructions), look up the code for each "letter" (generally approximates ASCII), then write a perl-script to take the information you want and send it to the serial port.
I don't know much about winamp, nor about mobo monitoring (I use a pentium, so no need to!) but there are many freeware programs around which will take such information and send it to the serial port for you.
Final problem: the display modules are about a centimetre higher than a 5.25" blanking plate, so they won't fit in my PC, so who cares about the electronics if the thing itself won't fit? Besides, I hate to go to sleep with lights on (taped over all my power-socket neons, etc) so I don't want an LCD anyway. Who wants to look under their desk for information?
Yeah, extra monitor: hundreds of pounds for the monitor, some more for a graphics card, and a whole heap of desk-space taken up. Cool, but not in the same league as case-moda. LCD panel by comparaison: about $15 - $20 each, and I already have a couple lying around from tech projects. My question: how do you connect them if you're already using your printer-port for something? Anyone know how to make a serial-port driver for LCDs?