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

2010-09-09 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: (Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than PMP? I keep reading android pimps, and it just... doesn't sit right...) PIMEED.[1] --

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

2010-09-09 Thread David Rysdam
An agent or agents purporting to be Tom Buskey said: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: (Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than PMP? I keep reading android

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

2010-09-09 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:00 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: I'm not sure I'll ever buy a $400 tablet. I agree with that sentiment for myself. We have an iPad here on loan to make sure the web sites we support display nicely. The iPad is a great device for those folks who have trouble with regular

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

2010-09-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:10 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:  I just call them tiny computers or portable computers. If I'm being serious, I call them handhelds. (I kind of liked palmtop (by analogy with desktop and laptop) but it never took off and so sounds funny.) I would usually

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

2010-09-09 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: We expect to see iPads getting used by patients in hospital settings filling out forms (multiple choice - little or no typing).  Earlier attempts with other tablets (running Windows) proved unworkable. I'm curious; what makes

Re: Android PMPs

2010-09-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: (Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than PMP? I keep reading android pimps, and it just...

Re: Android PMPs

2010-09-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: An agent or agents purporting to be Tom Buskey said: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: (Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than PMP? I keep reading android pimps, and it just... doesn't sit

Re: Android PMPs

2010-09-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: We expect to see iPads getting used by patients in hospital settings filling out forms (multiple choice - little or no typing).  Earlier attempts with other tablets (running

Using Python to encode cassette recordings (David Beazely)

2010-09-09 Thread Bill Sconce
From the Sometimes-We-Didn't-Even-Have-1s Dept., a tour de force on David Beazely's blog about encoding Kansas City Standard audio using Python and Matplotlib. To drive a Superbooard II...you remember them, don't you? On many old machines, cassette output is encoded using something called

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

2010-09-09 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:00 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: I'm not sure I'll ever buy a $400 tablet. I agree with that sentiment for myself. We have an iPad here on loan to make sure the web sites we support display nicely. The

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

2010-09-09 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Lloyd Kvam lk...@venix.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 10:08 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: We expect to see iPads getting used by patients in hospital settings filling out forms (multiple

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

2010-09-09 Thread Ryan Lee Stanyan
On Thursday, September 09, 2010 12:59:40 pm Tom Buskey wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:00 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: I'm not sure I'll ever buy a $400 tablet. I agree with that sentiment for myself. We have an iPad here

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

2010-09-09 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: It works very well for him. The tablets we tried could be mastered with a little practice, but they were frustrating when simply handed out to Grandpa. An interviewer was required to drive the tablet. The iPad seems to just work for anyone.

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-09 Thread Michael ODonnell
I 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? ...and got these responses: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html Sounded very appealing to me (partly because it'd serve as

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-09 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:07:04 -0400 Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: 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

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

2010-09-09 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Ryan Lee Stanyan ryan.stan...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday, September 09, 2010 12:59:40 pm Tom Buskey wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:00 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: I'm not sure I'll ever buy

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-09 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:50 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html Sounded very appealing to me (partly because it'd serve as another excuse to learn more Python) I'm not sure what went wrong for you.

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-09 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 17:28 -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:50 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html Sounded very appealing to me (partly because it'd serve as another excuse to learn more Python) I'm not

Broadcom to (finally!) make their wireless drivers FOSS?

2010-09-09 Thread Michael ODonnell
Just got wind of this via osnews.com: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Broadcom to (finally!) make their wireless drivers FOSS?

2010-09-09 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Just got wind of this via osnews.com:   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/55418 No question about it, the code is already merged in the linux-next staging tree by Greg