Re: Android PMPs (was: Qi-Hardware Nanonote group purchase?)

2010-09-08 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > (Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than "PMP"? I keep reading > "android pimps", and it just... doesn't sit right...) PIMEED.[1] -- Ben [1] Portable Individual Media Experience Enablement Device. Now available with Genuine Peop

[GNHLUG] Seacoast/UNH/Durham/SLUG - Mon 13 Sept - Object orientation orientation

2010-09-08 Thread Benjamin Scott
What : Object orientation orientation Date : Mon 13 September 2010 Time : 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH This month, SLUG will be looking at object oriented programming.[1] We all know OO, right? Everything's OO these days. Old news. Okay, pop quiz, hot shot: What's

Android PMPs (was: Qi-Hardware Nanonote group purchase?)

2010-09-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > > "Shawn O'Shea" writes: > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > > wrote: > > > > > > Posted this at work also, then figured maybe someone on this list > > > would be interested: > > > > > > I'm going to buy one of these to see how well it can repl

"Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, 'early adopter's distribution of Perl 6" MIT 9/14 E51 7pm

2010-09-08 Thread Bill Ricker
"Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, 'early adopter's distribution of Perl 6" "Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated" -- Mark Twain Curious what the Perl community has been up to lately? Come see Perl 6's recent preview release. Since July, Perl Mongers groups around the world are doing demo n

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: >  I have used http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/portcontrol/portcontrol.c > when I was doing some playing, and wanted to toggle some of them. Quick search also found http://parashell.sourceforge.net/ -- -- Thomas

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:07 -0400 > "Michael ODonnell" wrote: >> Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to >> wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port? >> I'd prefer that it operate using one o

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
>http://centerclick.org/temp/lcd.tgz > >the part you want is lcdraw.c > >it'll take commands from cmdline and do all basic operations to the >parallel port. Thanks. It compiled without apparent errors and I'll take it for a test drive tomorrow. ___ g

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
> One possibility might be pyparallel. Thanks. Forgive me for appearing stoopid; the Installation instructions on that page say, "Extract files from the archive, open a shell/console in that directory and let Distutils do the rest", which sounds very nice but I'm not sure what archive they're r

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Dave Johnson
Michael ODonnell writes: > > Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to > wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port? > I'd prefer that it operate using one of the standard drivers (like > parport_pc) via ioctls rather than poking around directly in I

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:07 -0400 "Michael ODonnell" wrote: > > Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to > wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port? > I'd prefer that it operate using one of the standard drivers (like > parport_pc) via ioctls r

Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port? I'd prefer that it operate using one of the standard drivers (like parport_pc) via ioctls rather than poking around directly in I/O or memory space at hardcoded add