linuxcaffe; become peripheraly involved !

[David J Patrick]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:04:49PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
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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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>Oh a DSL modem with an ethernet connection on it.  Why pay $10/month
>when you can buy it for $80?  And isn't sympatico overpriced to begin
>with?
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Using Sympatico ADSL at home (for several years, but not much longer), 
and setting up ADSL with iStop, for the caffe, I'm going to buy the 
"modem" from iStop, unless I can find a suitable used thingy.

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>>I hope to have several webcams going, and use usb numeric keypads as  
>>interfaces to the security system.
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>Hmm, interesting idea.
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>>or it's CoasterCreator (tm) !
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>I have run an ASUS 40x cd writer on a pentium 75 before.  It performed
>pretty good, and the burnproof system took care of the hickups.  Much
>better than I had imagined.  My experience with a DVR-103 (2x DVD
>writer) on a pentium II 450 was much worse (close to unusable) due to a
>complete lack of any buffer underrun handling.
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good to know. You'll know doubt be hearing about it if the coaster 
quotient is too high.
As always, your input is invaluable,
djp
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