Packard Bell, was: Re: Eee PC hands on?

2008-01-11 Thread Ric Werme
Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:09:07 -0500 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Packard Bell? *Packard Bell*? It is a common practice to acquire brands. Actually, the original Packard Bell manufactured radios and was acquired in the 1960s. The PC company of ill repute (well

Re: Packard Bell, was: Re: Eee PC hands on?

2008-01-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:04:42 -0500 (EST) Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I don't recall their radio days, but in 1962 they produced computers. The Packard Bell 250 used a magnetorestrictive delay line memory (basically audio pulsed running around many turns of stiff wire). If I

ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-11 Thread Lloyd Kvam
I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect data. The serial connection is 115200-n-8-1, but the device does not use the normal command sequences. The Windows software

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-11 Thread Chris
On 1/11/08, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be able to collect data from it using Linux. Unfortunately, it is using a proprietary protocol to collect data. The serial connection is 115200-n-8-1, but the device does not use

Re: ttyUSB monitoring

2008-01-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 11, 2008 7:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping someone here can kick me in the right direction. I Googled for usb sniffer and found Windows stuff. So I added linux and found this, which might be what you're looking for: http://www.linux-usb.org/tools.html -- Ben

The Economist on Linux...

2008-01-11 Thread Carl Helmers
Hi all... This is the URL of an excellent and Linux-friendly article on what to do with old (Windoze) computers -- convert them into one of several flavors of Linux as the author and his 10 year old son recently did... >From the January 11 website of the Economist...