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© I have been using twidge for a while to let a computer both send and receive messages aka tweets for controlling a home automation server. Thought about merging code from the old program Dr. Eliza (mental analyst) and other artificial routines to sort of make an internet head shrink via twitter. I may eventually set up a sight with "Status net" to be more user specific. In fact, this could go in two directions such as either an automated help desk or for some more hedonistic uses. (Patent and copyrights pending)

The best and or the fastest way to do anything is relative. Systems analysis should always be done before doing any programming. You do not need a jet to go down the street to the end of the block. A model "T" will do just fine.

get the mac address and look it up at: http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/

Worked for a finance company for a while and learned a few tricks or two. One thing that is never publicised, is that utility and phone company employees will for a small fee give out confidential information. Illegal as it may or may not be. I never did that though. The only way to disappear is to have no financial dealings, lose all contact with the past, change your appearance/lifestyle, and also change your name. To find someone, just follow the money.

ps aux and check for unneeded running programs. Update/upgrade the system. Need larger swap? Get rid of Ubuntu's phone home server software if you have not done so already. Forgotten the name of it. It's called landscape or something like that. Also updatedb. fsck?

Generally with freebasic, I do not even have to use or remember what includes are required (not that I could not), so I just write the code, compile, and go. Besides it is real easy to tell where structures begin and end, so you are not having to gauge whitespace. Not sure that python does a true compile. Freebasic does(via C). If you know of a python compiler that does, Let me know. Most of the systems I use are minimalistic in nature, so the closest I can get to compact disk usage then the better off I am. Once you compile code, it's all machine language anyway. Who cares what it is written in if it works. Elitist type elegant code does not impress me at all. Considering how bulky elitist code based gnome, mswindows, and the like are as they require insane amount of resources, they will economically bankrupt you, I will pass on them. Have done a lot of things in Basic that a lot of advanced programmers said were impossible. Do not get me wrong, One can code with whatever language they wish. I do frequently program in C among other high level languages,

Indenting is standard, but in python the tabs are used to show an end to a structure or loop. If you do not indent the code right your logic goes haywire. Hard to tell where things begin and end unless you are intimate with code. If you have done any maintenance programming you would understand why. True you can easily add includes, but I find my code is more portable between systems. I.e. between Messywindoze and linux. It is so much easier, faster, and disk efficient to use compiled binaries on multiple linux systems. You do not have to have the libraries on all the machines. Even the C language you have to watch where the includes are: (i.e. sys/io.h vs asm/io.h)

A lot of people are using the arduino to hardware interfacing and communicating with android either serially or whatever.

Python is a great and powerful language. Reminds me of modula. Unfortunately, I can not get into the the tabbing (indenting) you have to do all the time. Drives me nuts. I guess I have become spoiled with free form languages. Cobol and Fortran were column conscious way, but have veered away from the structure. To be honest, I have been using a lot of freebasic to re-purpose a lot of qbasic code, I did years ago. It is a pain to set up, but once you do have it set up right, you can do so much including gui. The one thing I like about it most is how easy it is to interface with hardware without having to load special modules such as pyparallel and pyserial. Want to get into asm some too.

A friend posted it at: it's at twitpic.com/photos/computothought p.s. For some reason this site will not let me post images.

Pricing starts at $1,650. Yeah right...... Run out and get one.

Might be a good way to help wean mswindows users off of MS.

One good use for those coffee stirrers. A friend posted it at: it's at twitpic.com/photos/computothought

Most burners of that era were serial as is this one. You probably would not want parallel.

@digip Thanks for the link. I will check it out this weekend. @all It's a eprom burner. I did make one mistake it is ode (omni delta engineering if I remember right) not oae.

Looking for a manual for an omni 28 from oae.

I contacted them, but never heard back.

Took too long and never set up. Not impressed. Just as soon set up my own server that work with real applications like what this indidivual did: http://www.instructables.com/id/Uses-for-your-own-private-cloud/

Is what you are really saying is you need to learn the syntax of a computer language? Just use a web search engine? The simplest program is a "to do" list. Coding is generally pretty easy. It's learning how to describe what you want to do that is the hard part. Write down in English what you want to do as well as describe input, output format, and storage definitions for the data you want to manipulate. Then it is just a matter of substituting programming language command or syntax in place of your English statements. Does that make any sense? http://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2006/06/7-steps-of-agile-system-analysis.html

If you want compatibility with ms, unless there is a library for it, you are talking a whole lot of work. I usually just create a text file and import it into word or the like. Not sure what you are trying to achieve.

Someone's thought's that might be considered.

Building an ltsp server with the latest ltsp on ubuntu. Clients boot fine. Now I have to build the internet side with squid, dansguardian, and etc. Spent a lot of time interfacing the parallel port. Now I am working on doing the joystick port. Built a joystick port breakout cable. Adc ports are an opportunity. sous vide and etc. Tore through my file cabinet for ideas and code to reuse. Writing more web apps for my Chumby to access. Virus killing for friend's messywindoze boxes. Goofing off. etc.

Splashtop was asked why there was no linux executable. this is there response. Since when is a promise, a solving of a problem? Sounds like a typical MS premeditated rhetoric. I am not holding my breath for a nix version to come out.

The pictures were not meant to be perfect. They were modified to just convey an idea and nothing more. You are more than welcome to do your own and make them perfect. To be honest, I did not want to waste the time to make them perfect. More important things to do.

Nevermind. (self censored)