Re: Chris Schmidt speaks at Where 2.0

2006-05-13 Thread Kjel Anderson
Thanks for posting about this. This is the sort of thing that I am working with every day, and I had no idea that there was a conference coming up. I've been doing the web gis stuff for about five years, and it really seems to be heating up at the moment. Don't know if the boss will approve this

Re: Using the serial port for GPIO.

2006-05-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 5/13/06, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that I've found that most modern PCs provide very poor voltages on the parallel port ... Heck, many modern PCs don't eve provide a parallel port. :) Anyone here know if those USB<->parallel converters can be (ab)used like the classic

Re: Using the serial port for GPIO.

2006-05-13 Thread Dave Johnson
Scott Garman writes: > Tom Buskey wrote: > > People usually use the parallel port for this kind of stuff. 8 outputs > > and at least 5 inputs. More inputs are possible w/ the newer > > bidirectional ports. > > > > parpin on sourceforge lets you work on individual pins. There's tons of > >

Linux Wireless

2006-05-13 Thread Thomas M. Albright
Can anyone recommend a good wireless card for my laptop? It's an IBM A21m running Fedora Core release 3. I'm currently using a Lucent Technologies Orinoco Gold, but it's kinda bent since my laptop fell off the table and landed on edge on the card. I'd like something I can pickup instead of mailord