Pass the Pepper, please…
A few weeks ago I caught wind of a new portable computer, called the Pepper Pad. Obligatory product feature photo: Link to actual photo I was immediately drawn to it for a number of reasons: It’s very much like a Newton on steroids: an 800×600 touch-sensitive screen, in the middle of a split QWERTY layout […]
info board is almost complete…
Well, one week later, the info board software is good to go. It boots up, connects to the wireless network no problem, and starts up into links in graphic mode, full-screen, and pulls up the info page, which displays: Weather Forecast (via the excellent RSSWeather) CBC News Headlines (via CBC RSS) IMDB News Headlines (love […]
info board progress
I got the 802.11b networking finally, thanks to double-checking the SSID (note: SSIDs are case sensitive!) and upgrading the kernel for good measure. Ended up scrapping SVGAlib and installing an X server and using links on XWindows with no window manager, just one full-screen browser window. Looks good! Now that I’m running XWindows though I […]
Info board status
Well Sandy loved my infoboard idea, so I’m slowly moving ahead with it. I’ve been trying hard to get 802.11b drivers running on RedHat 6.2, but it’s just not flying. I’m going to have to try and upgrade the little laptop to RedHat 8.0 so I get a 2.4 kernel, and then things should be […]
The urge to be a geek
You might remember a long time ago I started to make a digital picture frame out of an old laptop I had. It was basicially finished except for the external stand or hanging hardware. However since I’ve worked on it we’ve moved twice and the hardware is still sitting in a box in the closet. […]
notes to myself
How to hack my cups install again to automatically turn on my printer: cups will send the output using /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel symlink this file to a script that checks the printer status first, then runs the real CUPS parallel backend.
My GBA Movie Player
A while ago I bought a GBA Movie Player from overseas. Read about it and it seemed like a good thing, plus it was only about $30. How it works is: there are some programs that you run on your PC to convert media files (images, music, and video) to a special format for the […]
People change, times change, interests change
Who wants a file archive? I started this thing, which I called UNNA, back in September of 2000. At the time, there had been a great collection of Newton software called NewtonMAD – however, some of it was warez and so it needed to be ‘cleaned up’. Some Newties, including myself, started doing this, and […]
OK, these are all of the sites that I use that are down right now
Penny Arcade Audioscrobbler has been screwed up since shortly after I signed up. MSN Messenger network is down! Good going Microsoft!
for my reference…
my IR transceiver only uses pins 1-5 on an RS-232 DB9. Good thing I bought 6 conductor cable.
