| i have compiled some instructions and software for the self-builder.
the soft is designed to control the toy via http-pages and to work in
parallel with a video program, netmeet for example. the simplest way to
bulid the hardware is to connect a swithching transistor to the parallel
port, which gives simple on-off control. more sophisticated versions witf a
16 step speed control are possible and have been tested. |
| Now I have to find a 98 machine somewhere to go mess up this thing. Worst
is it seems like pretty decent hardware when I purchased it. If companies
would just stop messing around with unnecessary skins and just build solid
application (not the auto reboot kind) PCs would be as stable as Linux. |
|
if somebody else turned the gathering into the mess that it is these days,
then it can be turned into something else thats better. I dont think the
gatherings will go back to what they once were, but I wish it could. I think
everyone wants to see a better gathering, but I could be wrong. The only
true unity I have felt at a gathering was whenever there was a concensus.
Every issue at the gathering has fors and againsts. I guess I have a hard
time making clear modularized thinking as it applies to service/interest
based economics and revenue sharing, coops & communities.
Last time we had a chance to talk in person was in Arizona, and
since then the internet stuff Ive been working on has changed my view that
life just keeps getting worse. I feel a sense of hope from the projects I
work on. I truly believe that it is a great alternative to working for
someone else and for creative community building. A tool for Visions of
starving artists. I just cant function in mainstream soc. |
| X -version:
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XFree86 Version 4.1.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6510)
Release Date: 2 June 2001
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.4 i686 [ELF]
Module Loader present |
| Philips audio driver:
Doesnt work in NM (no volume control so disabled recording facilities
in NM). Philips tries to help me but their e-mail support is taking a
lot of time (1 week between question and answer, etc.) I saw that NM
sp 1 solved a problem with another Philips so I thought, maybe
sp2 solves my audio problem like sp1 did for the other Philips .
Ive got a work-around though: connecting an external microphone and
using my Yamaha soundcard driver (perfect sound but I prefer to use
the build-in microphone from Philips, I paid 400 French Francs extra
for this build-in microphone, apart from the video) |
