linuxcaffe; become peripheraly involved !

David J Patrick davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 9 20:04:49 UTC 2005


Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:16:41PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>As linuxcaffe moves from it's long dark beta phase, to v1.0 (open for 
>>biz) we will need a bunch of things;
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>>ethernet "modem"
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>A what thing???
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You know; phone line in one end and xDSL pppoe out the other ? 
Speadstream ? Alcatel ? the thing that Sympatico dings you (me) 
$10/month for ?

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>>webcams,
>>routers (wifi, ethernet, usb)
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>What is a usb router?  usb hub?
>
yess yess HUB ! you know; USB goes in one side and more than one USB 
comes  out the other !

>  Are you going to have a lot of usb
>devices on any of the machine?
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I hope to have several webcams going, and use usb numeric keypads as  
interfaces to the security system.

>>CDR burners
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>I guess cd burners will go in machines fast enough to run them.
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or it's CoasterCreator (tm) !

>I like my old hardware (even if some of it is currently collecting dust
>(until I finish painting the house and such)) and I doubt it would be
>very interesting to most other people.  A few 68k and mips3000 machines
>are just too odd for most people, although most of them run Debian just
>fine.
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I'm guessing the 68k refers to Macintoshy  CPUs, but the mips draws a 
blank.
Yup, that's odd, alright !
djp
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