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:
>
>
>>As linuxcaffe moves from it's long dark beta phase, to v1.0 (open for
>>biz) we will need a bunch of things;
>>
>>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 ?
>
>
>>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?
>
>
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.
>
>
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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