Not sure what protocol that uses but it could be specific to that cable so it almost certainly wouldn't masqueraded as a keyboard.
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Stephen J. Gowdy wrote: > > > I don't think you'll find an off the shelf cable for doing > > that. Most of them look like network devices to each of > > the computers. > > I couldn't really tell. I saw this > > http://www.sewelld.com/UsbCable.asp > > and assumed it was the USB equivalent of a null modem cable. > Maybe it's just ethernet over USB - it _is_ called a bridge. > > > Can't the teacher just take a floppy or a cd, or a USB > > Storage device? > > You'd think so. I've been dealing with this school for 5 yrs > and whatever I ask they say no. Now I just try to fit in > with their rules and don't think of normal ways of doing > things. The computers are setup according to rules set by > the administration and there's no changing anything, except > by them and then at no notice. The rules say you can use an > AlphaSmart and that's it. However it's worth trying again. > They can only say no. > > One year the science teacher and I tried to follow the path > of the sun through the sky for a year at noon (the path is > an analemma) by marking the end of the shadow of a flagpole > on the blacktop of the playground (with a dot of > spraypaint). The kids would see this on the playground and > start asking questions about the earth's orbit, the seasons > etc. The school said "You're not allowed to desecrate school > property and if we'd wanted this in the curriculum we would > have had one painted for you already." We did it > surruptitiously last year, with black marker pen, which > looked like oil smudges. No-one noticed (including the kids) > but if you joined all the dots, you could see the analemma. > However during the summer, they re-blacked the blacktop > covering over a year's work. I'm doing it again this year in > a playing field, pushing golf tees into the ground under the > grass. No-one's noticed yet. > > Joe > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
