I have set up a printing system for my company that prints labels automatically when they check something into inventory. using both Zebra Based Brady 300 MVP+ and a DataMax I series. Both of these will work with CUPS, However the DataMax's driver is Not standard with cups. I would Recomend the Datamax over the brady. 6the driver is dead simple to install. Zebra Printers in General work well with cups, I guess it depends on the size of the labels you are printing.
The embedded developers are out there, just go to uProcessor forums, These are all the different people that may be the embedded developers of tomorrow. Not many people want to program in Assembler/C anymore, its much easier to use Perl/Ruby/Java/C#...(insert abstracted language here) that takes all the Hardware out of the picture and just leaves the software problems at hand. In a sense why would any developer(software) want to have to deal with the low level mechanics/Memory management/Registers... anyway when most platforms have a high level language that lets them abstract the hardware so They don't have to work with it. Its much easier to say Vector myVector = new Vector() than to try and figure out how much memory they are going to need for something, then allocate it on the stack, then use pointers null characters and other low level "voodoo". And as for colleges teaching about infinite memory and cpu cycles, why not. I'm not saying you shouldn't be aware of the limitations and advantages of your hardware platform, but the computer industry has made such leaps and bounds as far as hardware is concerned every year that its not easy to pick what constraints you should conform to. in the 90's 4Gigs of ram was unheard of for a end user's PC, even a power user of any sorts and was most likely limited to mainframes if even they had that much. The embedded community is pretty much the same way, why try and write your stuff and cram it into a 8 bit platform when you can have dual Arm cores with media processing capabilities in hardware. And hell even some GPS chipsets have a python interface in them! and Java runs on most embedded platforms now too. it seems to me, we carry in our pockets the technology of 5-10 years ago. 400Mhz X-Scale processors, Multi processor embedded devices. that being said, Imagine what you could process on an AMD64X2 machine/Core2 Duo if you had no OS overhead and were writing all of your software in Assembly.
Well a lil off topic, oh well, could have been worse:)
I am a parent of a very curious 3 year old boy. I pretty much grew up with games (atari 2600). As an active gamer, I can honestly say it would be like torture for my son to not play games. It has become a family activity, and he likes games very much. Its not like I play GTA in front of the boy, but he's walked in on me setting up Quake and UT. I don't let him play, or play in front of him. He mostly like simple games like most of the Pop cap games and some spooky puzzle games (7th guest). the game he really likes is gcompris, A linux learning game, and he even prefers it to all the other games. I think children naturally are attracted to interactive fun stuff, TV is just too boring to him, he won't watch it more than 15 minutes before finding something more interactive to do, wether its playing a game or torturing our cats. Plus he has pretty good hand eye coordination, can use a mouse better than my grandmother, and has only stressed the fact that backups are important. My child has the option to play games often, and actively chooses not to. He would much rather play in his sand box or build with legos(the big kind), I guess it has a lot to do with the personality of your child.
OK. Stop, take a breath. feel better now?
I will have to agree that is sucks when a worm takes down your companies services. But we need to be prepaed for things like this. Everyone gets infected. although some less than others. be prepared to shut down a service if it will infect an entire network. Hell it'll pretty much be down its its busy replicating virii and worms. Limit attachments, Most people shouldn't be opening exe,com,bat,scr(this default list of ms's executables goes on...) at work anyway. often you can work with your ISP to block attacks at their router. And everyone deals with brute force attacks on a daily basis.
Now for the rant about zombie networks. OK they suck. people who don't know how to use computers need to understand they using a computer on the internet is pretty much like driving a car. You have a simple interface to a deadly weapon. Pretty much anyone can get in the seat, move the wheel and push the pedals and watch things happen. however being on a computer you are driving on a city street crowded with other people. and with not being familiar with what the controls do what they are or even having a clue about the rules of the road. god only knows what can happen. I think when people get a computer they need to be given a class about using them before they are allowed on the internet, so less pedestriand die.
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I have set up a printing system for my company that prints labels automatically when they check something into inventory. using both Zebra Based Brady 300 MVP+ and a DataMax I series. Both of these will work with CUPS, However the DataMax's driver is Not standard with cups. I would Recomend the Datamax over the brady. 6the driver is dead simple to install. Zebra Printers in General work well with cups, I guess it depends on the size of the labels you are printing.
The embedded developers are out there, just go to uProcessor forums, These are all the different people that may be the embedded developers of tomorrow. Not many people want to program in Assembler/C anymore, its much easier to use Perl/Ruby/Java/C#...(insert abstracted language here) that takes all the Hardware out of the picture and just leaves the software problems at hand. In a sense why would any developer(software) want to have to deal with the low level mechanics/Memory management/Registers... anyway when most platforms have a high level language that lets them abstract the hardware so They don't have to work with it. Its much easier to say Vector myVector = new Vector() than to try and figure out how much memory they are going to need for something, then allocate it on the stack, then use pointers null characters and other low level "voodoo". And as for colleges teaching about infinite memory and cpu cycles, why not. I'm not saying you shouldn't be aware of the limitations and advantages of your hardware platform, but the computer industry has made such leaps and bounds as far as hardware is concerned every year that its not easy to pick what constraints you should conform to. in the 90's 4Gigs of ram was unheard of for a end user's PC, even a power user of any sorts and was most likely limited to mainframes if even they had that much. The embedded community is pretty much the same way, why try and write your stuff and cram it into a 8 bit platform when you can have dual Arm cores with media processing capabilities in hardware. And hell even some GPS chipsets have a python interface in them! and Java runs on most embedded platforms now too. it seems to me, we carry in our pockets the technology of 5-10 years ago. 400Mhz X-Scale processors, Multi processor embedded devices. that being said, Imagine what you could process on an AMD64X2 machine/Core2 Duo if you had no OS overhead and were writing all of your software in Assembly. Well a lil off topic, oh well, could have been worse :)
I am a parent of a very curious 3 year old boy. I pretty much grew up with games (atari 2600). As an active gamer, I can honestly say it would be like torture for my son to not play games. It has become a family activity, and he likes games very much. Its not like I play GTA in front of the boy, but he's walked in on me setting up Quake and UT. I don't let him play, or play in front of him. He mostly like simple games like most of the Pop cap games and some spooky puzzle games (7th guest). the game he really likes is gcompris, A linux learning game, and he even prefers it to all the other games. I think children naturally are attracted to interactive fun stuff, TV is just too boring to him, he won't watch it more than 15 minutes before finding something more interactive to do, wether its playing a game or torturing our cats. Plus he has pretty good hand eye coordination, can use a mouse better than my grandmother, and has only stressed the fact that backups are important. My child has the option to play games often, and actively chooses not to. He would much rather play in his sand box or build with legos(the big kind), I guess it has a lot to do with the personality of your child.
An End. Yes.
OK. Stop, take a breath. feel better now? I will have to agree that is sucks when a worm takes down your companies services. But we need to be prepaed for things like this. Everyone gets infected. although some less than others. be prepared to shut down a service if it will infect an entire network. Hell it'll pretty much be down its its busy replicating virii and worms. Limit attachments, Most people shouldn't be opening exe,com,bat,scr(this default list of ms's executables goes on...) at work anyway. often you can work with your ISP to block attacks at their router. And everyone deals with brute force attacks on a daily basis. Now for the rant about zombie networks. OK they suck. people who don't know how to use computers need to understand they using a computer on the internet is pretty much like driving a car. You have a simple interface to a deadly weapon. Pretty much anyone can get in the seat, move the wheel and push the pedals and watch things happen. however being on a computer you are driving on a city street crowded with other people. and with not being familiar with what the controls do what they are or even having a clue about the rules of the road. god only knows what can happen. I think when people get a computer they need to be given a class about using them before they are allowed on the internet, so less pedestriand die.