The Rockbox firmware linked in the article only works for the Archos Jukebox and Recorder series. Has anyone heard of any similar re-writes for the Archos Multimedia AV120?
I got interested in computers just from influence from family and basic necessity. I didn't really get into programming until junior high and Pre-Algebra. I got tired of doing area, perimeter, and volume problems so I wrote basic, 10-20 line programs on my graphing calculator.
A few years later in Geometry and Algebra 2, I wrote other ones for different types of problems. It all came down to me being too lazy to do the really time-consuming problems on my homework. It got to the point where I looked forward to each lesson so that I could figure out a way to automate it. After writing 60-80 line programs (though each line only averaged 10-15 chars) on a calculator, I broke down and bought the linking cable with what money I had. That let me write the programs on my computer then transfer them to my calc and made things a lot more practical.
After wrapping my mind around the logic of it all and learning how to account for every possible situation, things became a lot easier. I dabbled in some C then picked up PHP. I wrote a few web applications for myself and worked on a website for a local company. After seeing I could make money for writing some clever logic statements and database work, I was hooked.
Since then (it's only been a year), I've been doing more in PHP, learning ActionScript, dabbling in flash, and playing around with some of NOAA's XML weather feeds which are going to be the basis for my website. I'm 16 now and I can't help but feel like I've gotten a comparatively late start on it all.
So as for the 13 year old that wants to get interested, well what I did seems to be working for me so far. I had always heard that people either love or hate programming and so far I love it. I mean there's nothing like the joy of making a program work just the way it's supposed to and seeing that you did in.81 seconds what once took you 5 minutes on paper.
The other links posted are probably more useful (and practical) but this has a link to a file with all US zip codes and their lat/lon. They also have a simple PHP script for putting it into a database. I'm using it for my site and it seems pretty comprehensive, though you may have to change the script around some to get all the zip codes in depending on your version of PHP.
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The Rockbox firmware linked in the article only works for the Archos Jukebox and Recorder series. Has anyone heard of any similar re-writes for the Archos Multimedia AV120?
Or rather, "Some would say the Earth is our Moon, but that would belittle the name of our Moon...which is the Moon."
All these slashdot guys should know that on the Moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with moon rocks!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0280674 It was a B movie they showed on HBO a lot a few years ago.
I got interested in computers just from influence from family and basic necessity. I didn't really get into programming until junior high and Pre-Algebra. I got tired of doing area, perimeter, and volume problems so I wrote basic, 10-20 line programs on my graphing calculator.
.81 seconds what once took you 5 minutes on paper.
A few years later in Geometry and Algebra 2, I wrote other ones for different types of problems. It all came down to me being too lazy to do the really time-consuming problems on my homework. It got to the point where I looked forward to each lesson so that I could figure out a way to automate it. After writing 60-80 line programs (though each line only averaged 10-15 chars) on a calculator, I broke down and bought the linking cable with what money I had. That let me write the programs on my computer then transfer them to my calc and made things a lot more practical.
After wrapping my mind around the logic of it all and learning how to account for every possible situation, things became a lot easier. I dabbled in some C then picked up PHP. I wrote a few web applications for myself and worked on a website for a local company. After seeing I could make money for writing some clever logic statements and database work, I was hooked.
Since then (it's only been a year), I've been doing more in PHP, learning ActionScript, dabbling in flash, and playing around with some of NOAA's XML weather feeds which are going to be the basis for my website. I'm 16 now and I can't help but feel like I've gotten a comparatively late start on it all.
So as for the 13 year old that wants to get interested, well what I did seems to be working for me so far. I had always heard that people either love or hate programming and so far I love it. I mean there's nothing like the joy of making a program work just the way it's supposed to and seeing that you did in
The other links posted are probably more useful (and practical) but this has a link to a file with all US zip codes and their lat/lon. They also have a simple PHP script for putting it into a database. I'm using it for my site and it seems pretty comprehensive, though you may have to change the script around some to get all the zip codes in depending on your version of PHP.