I've been considering building a Digital Picture frame also.
I want to be able to insert my CF (SmartMedia, MMC, etc) Card into a "52,000-in-one" USB reader, hit a Transfer button and have the images transfered to my RAID'ed network attached storage (probably a samba share). Then have the option to erase the CF card
Have files renamed based on the EXIF information imbedded in the JPEG headers when they are transfered to the storage server (for example, 2004-05-25_021544b YYYY-MM-DD_HHmmss and if that already exists append a letter), or perhaps the creation date of the image file depending on how hard it proves to read the EXIF info.
A simple interface to go through the pictures would be nice (not sure exactly what's already out there)
I was thinking something along the lines of Hardware buttons along the bottom of the frame, one each for going forward and back a year, month, day, and then per image.
Also maybe a dial to vary the speed of the slide show mode, and a "bookmark image" button...hrm yeah that'd be nice.
The general idea is to end up with a device that even grandma can use to view her pictures, and stick her camera card in and hit one button to transfer the pictures to a automagically backed up, raid'ed server.
Does this sound doable (without an insane amount of work:p)? Anybody have any sugestions, comments, want to tell me I'm an idiot, etc?
Some Rights Reserved, (C) 2004 TheMysteriousFuture
I believe it is because people would link to BZ bugs encouraging to vote for that bug, effectivly/.'ing the ballot box:p.
if you must I think you can always use http://www.snurl.com...
Related note. With snurl if you register you can see how many clicks a link got AND you can _CHANGE_ where it points to...just imagine the possibilities if a story got on the main page with a registered snurl link......MUAHHAHHAHHAHAAAHAHAHAHAAAHA
if only I could get that (and my other fix to make Mozilla and Thunderbird play nice together) be the standard so I wouldn't have to repatch every release.
What's your other fix to make Mozilla App Suite and TB play nice? Got a BZ number?
who is "that guy"? If you are referring to the story submitter it appears that Anonymous Coward asks: is a mail to link to his email address "brendan.rackley@verizon.net"
Somebody did the very thing you mention...Not with their phone company but their gas (water, electric...something like that) company IIRC...Not sure but I believe I saw the link to the story on/. in a comment...maybe if I remember I'll dig it up...
Microsoft would go a long way toward dowsing the fire of contempt that's burning at their door if they released their core OS (without any add-ons like Paint or Wordpad or any of the myriad extras they put into their distro) as Open Source and sold what are now XP Home, Pro and Server as commercialized add-on packages with support options.
I just literally laughed out loud...BWHAHAHAHAHA! Are you kidding me? That is simply NOT a reasonable thing for a for profit company that is making oodles of money off it's OS sales to do.
Think about it for a second. Lets pretend you were in a high level PHB position at Microsoft. Would you even consider sugesting that? If so I am speachless.
Let's pretend that they do release their core OS, Why would the majority of the OEM's such as Dell and Compaq have any reason not to simply release their own 'Distro' with the Windows "core OS" and provide their own support *, rather then paying Microsoft for the "commercialized add-on package"?
* IIRC OEM's already provide the support for Windows and if you call MS and say you have a OEM copy of windows they will tell you to contact your OEM for support.
I see on QRZ that your address is wrong. It's really easy to submit a "change of address" (which would really be a correction for you...)
You need to register in the CORES/ULS system if you have not already. Go to http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/ then click on "register CORES/CallSign".
Here's an FCC help page on FRN/ULS and registering with CORES. http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/about/gettingstarted1. html
Your callsign appears to already be assigned a FRN number. Go to your QRZ page and click detailed info, then click "FCC: ULS Listing". Your FRN appears on the ULS page.
Let me know if you have any problems:) -Tech Class Ham since 1999 I think...haven't used it in ages but I've moved around a lot.
Basically the google watch guy is just pissed off that google didn't give him the page rank he thought he deserved. I've read google-watch and most of it is FUD
What the heck is a guitar bow? I have never heard of such a thing! Perhaps you mean a Violin bow? I am quite sure Violin bows exist as I play a Violin.
I am also VERY sure that a Violin bow made with fishing line would sound awful. Horse hair violin bows are made in such a way that the hair is about an inch wide and as you play you rotate the bow so more of the hair contacts the bow when your hand is furthest from the strings and less as you move towards the strings. Also horse hair is quite fine. Much finer then then heavy fishing line
MS speach recognition is awful. Try Naturally Speaking Not great but from what I've seen and read it's the best out there.
Do nott forget to use a high quality headset (NOT a standalone microphone) such as one from Plantronics* or Logitech and try to get it posistioned the same way every time.
A short history on Naturally Speaking. It was originally created by DragonSoft. Infact there was an article on the company and the Husband and Wife who started in in MIT's Technology Review back in the good ol days (around 1998) when you'd count off the weeks until the 1 issue per quarter would arrive.
They were then bought out by Lernout and Hauspie who had their own speach recognition software. Dragon Naturally Speaking was then integrated into L&H's product. If I recall correctly the integrated product didn't work very well.
L&H was then bought out by ScanSoft where Dragon Naturally Speaking lives today.
I'm not sure why I bothered to write all this (and I've probably got some of it wrong) this early in the morning. Oh well
-TMF
I've found you can get the plantronics headsets _much_ cheaper online. For example the Audio.90 which sells at circuit city for $30 can be had for $15
that's all fine and dandy...until you have to use a 'natural' keyboard if you don't use one (or vice versa), or have to type your PW on a palm, or have to use a international KB, or have to type your PW on anything with a different KB layout then you are used to.
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I've been considering building a Digital Picture frame also.
:p)? Anybody have any sugestions, comments, want to tell me I'm an idiot, etc?
I want to be able to insert my CF (SmartMedia, MMC, etc) Card into a "52,000-in-one" USB reader, hit a Transfer button and have the images transfered to my RAID'ed network attached storage (probably a samba share). Then have the option to erase the CF card
Have files renamed based on the EXIF information imbedded in the JPEG headers when they are transfered to the storage server
(for example, 2004-05-25_021544b YYYY-MM-DD_HHmmss and if that already exists append a letter), or perhaps the creation date of the image file depending on how hard it proves to read the EXIF info.
A simple interface to go through the pictures would be nice (not sure exactly what's already out there)
I was thinking something along the lines of Hardware buttons along the bottom of the frame, one each for going forward and back a year, month, day, and then per image.
Also maybe a dial to vary the speed of the slide show mode, and a "bookmark image" button...hrm yeah that'd be nice.
The general idea is to end up with a device that even grandma can use to view her pictures, and stick her camera card in and hit one button to transfer the pictures to a automagically backed up, raid'ed server.
Does this sound doable (without an insane amount of work
Some Rights Reserved, (C) 2004 TheMysteriousFuture
I believe it is because people would link to BZ bugs encouraging to vote for that bug, effectivly /.'ing the ballot box :p.
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.sig :p
if you must I think you can always use http://www.snurl.com
Related note. With snurl if you register you can see how many clicks a link got AND you can _CHANGE_ where it points to...just imagine the possibilities if a story got on the main page with a registered snurl link......MUAHHAHHAHHAHAAAHAHAHAHAAAHA
Btw nice
What's your other fix to make Mozilla App Suite and TB play nice? Got a BZ number?
Of course you know that 'ing from slashdot to bugzilla is not allowed right?
Yes! Finally a new running inside joke.
In soviet russia beowulf clusters of new inside running jokes laugh at YOU!
who is "that guy"? If you are referring to the story submitter it appears that Anonymous Coward asks: is a mail to link to his email address "brendan.rackley@verizon.net"
-TMF
1. It's http://www.wimaxforum.org not WiFiMax
2. Use the FOSS Asterisk PBX for the "Voice-over-IP pliot project thing"
Why would you use something large and unweildy like this, rather then the same thing, but mounted on top of the monitor?
NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Don't leave me alone!
:\.
Unfortunatly what you said is mostly true
Somebody did the very thing you mention...Not with their phone company but their gas (water, electric...something like that) company IIRC...Not sure but I believe I saw the link to the story on /. in a comment...maybe if I remember I'll dig it up...
I just literally laughed out loud...BWHAHAHAHAHA!
Are you kidding me? That is simply NOT a reasonable thing for a for profit company that is making oodles of money off it's OS sales to do.
Think about it for a second. Lets pretend you were in a high level PHB position at Microsoft. Would you even consider sugesting that? If so I am speachless.
Let's pretend that they do release their core OS, Why would the majority of the OEM's such as Dell and Compaq have any reason not to simply release their own 'Distro' with the Windows "core OS" and provide their own support *, rather then paying Microsoft for the "commercialized add-on package"?
* IIRC OEM's already provide the support for Windows and if you call MS and say you have a OEM copy of windows they will tell you to contact your OEM for support.
Laterz
-TMF
yowch!
;P heh
Planning on going back to look for the camera?
I see on QRZ that your address is wrong.
. html
:)
It's really easy to submit a "change of address" (which would really be a correction for you...)
You need to register in the CORES/ULS system if you have not already. Go to http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/ then click on "register CORES/CallSign".
Here's an FCC help page on FRN/ULS and registering with CORES. http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/about/gettingstarted1
Your callsign appears to already be assigned a FRN number. Go to your QRZ page and click detailed info, then click "FCC: ULS Listing". Your FRN appears on the ULS page.
Let me know if you have any problems
-Tech Class Ham since 1999 I think...haven't used it in ages but I've moved around a lot.
Great Post! Thanks :)
Also see Google watch watch .
Basically the google watch guy is just pissed off that google didn't give him the page rank he thought he deserved. I've read google-watch and most of it is FUD
"I know of several groups that crafted well-done April Fool's joke" Got any links?
What the heck is a guitar bow? I have never heard of such a thing! Perhaps you mean a Violin bow? I am quite sure Violin bows exist as I play a Violin.
I am also VERY sure that a Violin bow made with fishing line would sound awful. Horse hair violin bows are made in such a way that the hair is about an inch wide and as you play you rotate the bow so more of the hair contacts the bow when your hand is furthest from the strings and less as you move towards the strings. Also horse hair is quite fine. Much finer then then heavy fishing line
MS speach recognition is awful. Try Naturally Speaking Not great but from what I've seen and read it's the best out there.
.90 which sells at circuit city for $30 can be had for $15
Do nott forget to use a high quality headset (NOT a standalone microphone) such as one from Plantronics* or Logitech and try to get it posistioned the same way every time.
A short history on Naturally Speaking.
It was originally created by DragonSoft. Infact there was an article on the company and the Husband and Wife who started in in MIT's Technology Review back in the good ol days (around 1998) when you'd count off the weeks until the 1 issue per quarter would arrive.
They were then bought out by Lernout and Hauspie who had their own speach recognition software. Dragon Naturally Speaking was then integrated into L&H's product. If I recall correctly the integrated product didn't work very well.
L&H was then bought out by ScanSoft where Dragon Naturally Speaking lives today.
I'm not sure why I bothered to write all this (and I've probably got some of it wrong) this early in the morning. Oh well
-TMF
I've found you can get the plantronics headsets _much_ cheaper online. For example the Audio
FYI: His name is Linus. Linus (Benedict) Torvalds.
In other news, Why doesn't slashdot make links clickable automatically unless the don't make links clickable button is checked?
It's already happened, Introducing the Casio WQV-10 series! There are others too if you want to take the time to find them.
The "fake" AP had an internet connection so as not to arouse suspicion as the users wouldn't normally notice anything different?
I'm sorry, I thought you said "Informed" and linked to Tom's in the same sentence. ...
...
*re-reads post
oh. you did.
Mod me down. I'm a troll. This is not funny. You did not read this. I am not here.
http://bash.org/?246329
I think he meant the weapons fire control.
that's all fine and dandy...until you have to use a 'natural' keyboard if you don't use one (or vice versa), or have to type your PW on a palm, or have to use a international KB, or have to type your PW on anything with a different KB layout then you are used to.