> I wish programs would actauly show you the > password the first time you are entering > it. This would have saved me hours of pain > and suffering in the past. But what about the shadow governments that are trying to steal your password!!??!?! They could be looking over our shoulders as we speak!!...

Next time before plugging it in, try to verify that its giving the right voltage. If you can get your hands on a multimeter, just check and see if its giving 5V off. I actually haven't owned one of the 5V ones myself, but I believe (please correct me on this if I'm wrong) that the 5V ones are much m...

Heyas everyone,
Thats a neat project, good demo too. Keep up the good work!

-- Owen

P.S.- Lava lamp on.... lava lamp...off... lava lamp on.... lava lamp off.... (if I made one to do this you'd never see me again)

Heyas everyone, I recently liberated a usb to serial convertor based on the PL-2303 bridge controller. I am running gentoo linux, and I appear to have it installed and configured correctly; the drivers are built into the kernel and it seems to work. However, attempting to use a perl script I wrote t...

You most definately could not just pass the serial device as a parameter, mostly because of the commands required to display text on the LCD screens. I'm trying to figure out a way for you to do this easily, with a minimum of fuss, but the only real possibility I see is creating a false device that ...

This would actually be pretty easy in java, the source for a simple implementation of a java interface for the lcd is on MO's site. As for any implementation of, say, your stock ticker, the easiest thing to do would be to get out the good old java.net.* API and do your connection manually, and parse...

Until then we have the wondrous dremel tool. It really isn't too bad to modify an aluminum bay insert, I was scared but mine turned out pretty sweet. All you want to do is mark out where the screen is going to fit (I recommend making the hole just large enough for the actual lcd screen and not the p...

Hrm, probably computer science/engineering people that count in powers of 2... So, there should be 2,4,8,16,32 etc line LCDs available, with the number of spaces on each line also being a power of 2. Ok, not quite, most of them have 20 or 40 spaces on a line, but it was a good theory while it lasted.

What version of the OS are you running? If you're running OSX there are linux apps that could easily be converted to run on OSX, actually they probably wouldn't need any conversion at all, since it is based on one of the BSDs... However MacOS 9.x is a different story.

"Dude you got a DELL"????!?!?!

MAKE THE RAMPANT COMMERCIALISM STOP!!! AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Oh, sorry, I have no idea, I haven't messed with that model yet, I'm just an innocent code monkey

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Hexidecimal is just another method of displaying integers. In C, these two statements would be equal: <CODE> int decimalInt = 32; int hexInt = 0x20; </CODE> The only difference is in how to interpret the number (the 0x specifies that it is hex), but the computer will use a third representation to re...

haha that's great

Ahh ok then, sounds good, for some reason that setup didn't occur to me... been in college too long, miss the non-theoretical efficient solution

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Ok, thats cool then. My question is the combination of file server and firewall. Usually these two are not combined because of the chance that subversion of a file server (something that is quite possible due to the nature of file servers, any type of open connection to the outside is generally view...