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maslovsky

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« Reply #60 on: June 10, 2004, 08:11:54 am »
I\'ve decided to poste here too

Anton Maslovsky, 29, Moscow, Russia
Work as a software engineer in Moscow office of US company.

Supporting and maintaining Cacko Qtopia ROM ... for fun
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« Reply #61 on: June 10, 2004, 09:40:15 am »
29 years old, from Turkey, Working in North Cyprus now, Linux System Admin. Sharing home with my gf and two cats and  two dogs.  Probably will move to Kenya in a year for volunteer IT business, and will move somewhere else after a year, (money vs life)

Very much in love with linux for a long time...

sl-5600 with oz-3.3.6-pre1,
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« Reply #62 on: June 10, 2004, 07:52:45 pm »
Felipe, 42, Math. Prof., Austin TX, USA.
I do have too many accessories, listed on my
Zaurus webpage
together with a few things I did for the Zaurus. I use the Zaurus instead of a laptop on trips.
Otherwise I enjoy playing with it. I\'m going to Japan in August and maybe I\'ll upgrade to C860.
I run Linux at work and at home, but my wife prefers OS X and my contrarian teenage daughter prefers Windows, so I have all three at home. Plus I\'m playing with BSD on an old computer I bought at a garage sale.
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« Reply #63 on: June 10, 2004, 09:59:21 pm »
Jeremy, 27, Unix System Admin, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
I have been using linux since 95...and solaris since 99..
I work for a marketing company in the internet devision as the unix expert...
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« Reply #64 on: June 11, 2004, 10:06:07 am »
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Botgeek: what kind of robotics do you do?  I love the field, and I\'m kinda messing around with it..  I can\'t wait till I get better at it.


I have like 2x all the mindstorms... it would be awesome to get the perl or python IR drivers ... or whatever... for z -- to control the bots :-]

Scott
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« Reply #65 on: June 11, 2004, 12:40:33 pm »
Keith, 19, Oregon State University. I\'m sure you can figure out my occupation. I use my zaurus for general tinkering and for road trips where it\'s a pain in the butt to lug around a whole pile of equipment... also for random wardriving. Kismet + Z5500 + D-Link DCF-660W = Bliss
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« Reply #66 on: June 11, 2004, 01:15:19 pm »
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I have like 2x all the mindstorms... it would be awesome to get the perl or python IR drivers ... or whatever... for z -- to control the bots :-]


What perl do you use?

I have been converting to ipk and using the Debian stable arm packages and the perl 5.6.1 is very complete (including perl/tk for Xqt).  There is a module libdevice-serialport-perl from Debian that should provide the interface you need to IR.  I have mindstorms too and if I recall the communication is standard serial at 4800 or 9600 bps.

If you want python http://www.vanille.de/projects/python.spy has pyserial.  I find the python for the Z here to be very complete and use it for python and pyqt apps.  You could probably make a very nice Qt Mindstorm GUI.

When I last worked with them I was using LegOS (Now brickOS).  BrickOS is a replacement embedded OS for the Mindstorm that can run 8 concurrent threads.  It is very stable IMHO and works well.  Programming is done using a gnu H8 cross compiler (any doing Z C development should feel right at home).  BrickOS/LegOS supports using the IR directly and has an API to write for code for the host end.  You could probably also port that API to use the perl serial module.

LegOS (brickOS) IMHO is the best way to go if you are hitting the limits and performance of the base OS and/or NQC.
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« Reply #67 on: June 11, 2004, 05:23:51 pm »
I\'m Senthil,32. Originally from Chennai(Madras), India. Currently working as a software consultant for a company in San Diego, US.

I was an owner of Psion Revo previously. Right now I own a 5500, I am planning to move to C760 or C860 shortly.
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« Reply #68 on: June 11, 2004, 08:51:12 pm »
Skyline - 18 Highschool - i love girls, they are the best.

windowsME - shit
windowsXP - 2.8ghz / 1.5g ram / 5200-128mb / monitor speakers / wireless kb/mouse
redhat - laptop / kde / wireless / irda / dvd / ..firewire - shit
zaurus sl5000d - just got a week or two ago / wifi card / oz / love it (not as much as girls though)
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« Reply #69 on: June 11, 2004, 08:52:27 pm »
NH - daily.
MA - couple times a month.
NYC twice a month.
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« Reply #70 on: June 11, 2004, 08:55:25 pm »
Enjoy programming in c, perl, <cough html cough>, enjoy pen testing w/friends and for $$. Always legal though.
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« Reply #71 on: June 12, 2004, 02:38:10 am »
Tim Sawchuck, 55 years young (I\'m growing old, not up.)  Wireless phone tech for many years, burned out.

Now I sell cigars in the only \"work free smoke place\" in San Luis Obispo, California.  Working at getting the shop setup for business online for the owner and a close friend, who is as much a techno dummie as I am a techno weenie.  

My SL-5500 is my complete portable pocket computer that masquerades as a PDA with contacts, calendar (KO/Pi rocks), ogg music, a movie, shopping lists, e-books, Hancom sheet, password storage, checkbook, auto mileage, workout tracker;  war-walking fun and wi-fi e-mail / web browsing when I\'m home on the deck smoking that last cigar of the day, watching the sun set into a glass of red wine.

I also run Mandrakelinux Cooker and work with them to keep USB connectivity for the Zaurus functional.  I\'m an \"MS Free\" household.
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« Reply #72 on: June 12, 2004, 04:42:42 am »
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Botgeek: what kind of robotics do you do?  I love the field, and I\'m kinda messing around with it..  I can\'t wait till I get better at it.


I have like 2x all the mindstorms... it would be awesome to get the perl or python IR drivers ... or whatever... for z -- to control the bots :-]

Scott


Have you checked out the oopic?

www.oopic.com


John
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« Reply #73 on: June 12, 2004, 05:34:22 am »
Hi, John Waalkes here, 46, Controls Engineer for GM (Saturn).

Born in Germany, living in Tennessee (IMHO one of the most beautiful spots in the US and I have moved 33 times).

My primary job is to help out the Maintenance guys when they come up against a problem that stumps them (we can share the blame that way), but since they usually do such a fine job I tend to resemble the Maytag Repairman

Otherwise I\'ll engineer in a new feature or device for a conveyor (or whatever) and program it (I\'m a PLC programmer - visit www.plcs.net if you are interested in what sort of animal that is).

I live in an old farmhouse built in 1865 complete with 9 foot ceilings, wood floors, four fireplaces, 6 foot tall windows, and a spiral staircase. The house was built by a pair of teachers and just behind my house is the old one-room schoolhouse that they taught in (now used for storage).

Love linux, electronics, Memphis (Beale Street), and fishing

Always have a few beers in the fridge, and usually a cooler full in the front yard (I live out in the sticks so anything goes). Stop on by for a cool one


Our humble little car plant:

http://www.autointell.net/nao_companies/ge...mfg/saturn1.htm

http://www57.pair.com/lane/spctrip3.htm


Oh, and I own a C860, and just gave my venerable old 5500 away to my bartender.


John
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« Reply #74 on: June 12, 2004, 05:49:40 am »
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Bob Rashkin, 54 years old.
I currently live in Calhan, Colorado, US (35 miles from Colorado Springs), although I was born in New York and spent my teen years in Los Angeles.


Calhan? Folks, that ain\'t the end of the world (that would be Matheson), but you can see it from there.

I more or less grew up in Black Forest. My daughter lives in the Springs and is a student at UCCS (Electrical Engineering).


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I work as a software engineer for a big defense contractor, designing and building satellite control systems.


Silicon Mountain... No surprise there  Ever get up to the Air Force Academy?


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I have a 5500 with CF and SD cards but no connectivity (there\'s no WIFI points in the area and I don\'t have a cell phone).


Heck, when I lived out there, the jackrabbits would have to pack a lunch to visit Calhan

Well, except for these:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tall-tales/j.../jackalope.html


John
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