For those who have seen the live coverage of the WWDC, please throw your two cents in.
Personally, I have mixed feelings on this keynote. In typical Jobs fashion, there was some neat things released today, such as the Mac Pro, however there were also some let down. The largest let down was the total lack "one more thing". Maybe the Paris conference next month will have something neat, but untill then just kinda put a bummer on things here.
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In other news, my one pig, Hamlet, seems to have come down with heatstroke. It doesn't seem to be really bad, but I still hope he gets better.
Google, in its never ending conquest, has now started Google Mars. Really kinda cool to be able to zoom in and see Mars like that. Also, hopefully it means that decent DEM maps are available, so Terragen users can see Mars in 3d.
In other news, someone I ordered some shit from on ebay got suspended. Only reason I found out, is because they left me a positive feed back and ebay emailed me to let me know they were removing it, because if someone gets suspended and the account is less than 90 days old, they will not let them effect any other accounts, for good or for worse. It really sucks, because I am totally clueless as to why they were suspended (102 positives, 2 neutrals, 0 negatives), and I haven't got my stuff yet.
Ok, some of you might know that lately I've been working on a LCD display so I can be easily notified when someone is trying to get a hold of me and I cannot see the item on the screen. One thing I am doing that is a bit different than some of the other methods for controlling a HD44780 based LCD is I am hooking it up directly to a centronix 36pin female connector, so that way, I can use any printer cable to connect it, or a Belkin F5U002 USB adapter, where as most people, just hook up the standard Dsub 25pin male connector directly to the LCD.
For the most part, it is no more difficult to use a Centronix connector than hooking directly up to the 25 pin connector. Pins 1 through 14 on the centronix are treated the same as Pins 1-14 on the 25pin. The changes come in after that. Pin 15, on what would be the 25pin connector, is pin 32 on the centronix adapter, pin 16 goes to pin 31 on the centronix, and pin 17 goes to pin 36 on the centronix. Pins 18-15 on the 25 pin connector are for ground, and on the centronix, the grounds are 19 through 30. Knowing that, its drop dead easy to wire up the Centronix adapter instead, and in my opinion, you end up with a nicer, more professional setup.
Holy crap. Apple has 80% of online music sales, 90% hard drive based MP3 player sales, and 49% of flash based MP3 player sales. Thats a fucking lot!
Just got a Belkin Parallel to USB adapter (F5U002 for those interested), and it works for controlling my vinyl plotter. I havent tried it under Linux or OSX yet, but thats still good results, since most newer computers do not have parallel ports.
So, I probably won't hack this one to make my LCD display, or atleast not without getting another one.
