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  16 weirdest places you'll find Linux "q.kontinuum" <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-11 21:13 +0000
    Re: 16 weirdest places you'll find Linux wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 09:12 +0000
    Re: 16 weirdest places you'll find Linux Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-22 15:45 +0000
      Re: 16 weirdest places you'll find Linux Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-02-22 17:19 -0400
        Re: 16 weirdest places you'll find Linux Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-23 21:32 +0000
      Re: 16 weirdest places you'll find Linux Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:00 -0500
        Re: 16 weirdest places you'll find Linux Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-26 19:51 +0000

#269 — 16 weirdest places you'll find Linux

This article shows the - in their opinion - weirdest places using Linux:

http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/139614/#slide1

In short, they show pictures of slow cookers, a small robot, tsunami-
sensors, Computer Engineer Barbie (ok, there is no Linux, just a picture 
suggesting she might use Linux), Airplain entertainment system, a bark-
activated door (yes, really!) and some others.

Can you beat this?

-- 
Trolling is a art!

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#300

>
> This article shows the - in their opinion - weirdest places using Linux:
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/139614/#slide1
>
> In short, they show pictures of slow cookers, a small robot, tsunami-
> sensors, Computer Engineer Barbie (ok, there is no Linux, just a picture
> suggesting she might use Linux), Airplain entertainment system, a bark-
> activated door (yes, really!) and some others.
>
> Can you beat this?
>
> --
> Trolling is a art!
>

It's not a Linux sighting, but I once saw an ancient XENIX in a small town Mississippi drugstore (I was upgrading the machine's memory and CPU). I think it was the pharmacy inventory system.

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#709

On 2014-02-11, q.kontinuum <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This article shows the - in their opinion - weirdest places using Linux:
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/139614/#slide1
>
> In short, they show pictures of slow cookers, a small robot, tsunami-
> sensors, Computer Engineer Barbie (ok, there is no Linux, just a picture 
> suggesting she might use Linux), Airplain entertainment system, a bark-
> activated door (yes, really!) and some others.
>
> Can you beat this?

When I unpacked a new Sony TV for our bedroom, a copy of the GPL fell
out. And it's not even a particularly "smart" TV - no wifi or internet
or any of that.


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#732

On 2014-02-11, q.kontinuum <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This article shows the - in their opinion - weirdest places using Linux:
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/139614/#slide1
>
> In short, they show pictures of slow cookers, a small robot, tsunami-
> sensors, Computer Engineer Barbie (ok, there is no Linux, just a picture 
> suggesting she might use Linux), Airplain entertainment system, a bark-
> activated door (yes, really!) and some others.
>
> Can you beat this?

I have a Dell desktop running Slackware 12.1 that for the moment is
dedicated to a mouse. 

We have a wild deer mouse, blind, captured when he was a "teenager",
now going on 3 years old, in a 3-decker cage with a squirrel cage
exercise wheel.  There is a super-magnet hot-glued to the wheel,
counterbalanced by a lead shot also hot glued on.  Poking through the
cage is a tooth brush handle, held in place with cable ties and a
brake cylinder grommet, to the inboard end of which is attached a
bicycle speedometer sensor (reed switch, default OFF).

The sensor is wired to the button-1 switch of a serial computer mouse
in a coffee can and the (computer) mouse is plugged into the Dell.  A
perl script runs on the Dell that watches the serial port and records
a time stamp (using Time::HiRes) every time the sensor switch goes to
ON (seen as a button-1-down event).

Massaging the data provides a bar graph of (real) mouse's
wheel-running activity as well as max speed, average speed, total
distance run in 1 day of the mouse's awake period etc. This has been
running occasionally, whenever I feel like turning it on, since
Sep. 2012.

In one of his better evenings when he was younger than he is now,
roughly between dusk and 1:30 AM:

     + Mouse max speed was 6.77 fps (4.6 mph).

         This is greatest of three outliers. The max speed that was
         attained repeatedly was 4.97 fps (3.39 mph) 

     + Average speed of hard running: 3.18 fps (2.17 mph)

         Many slow values excluded, based on visual inspection of data
         plot and and comparison with observation of how the mouse
         pauses or dawdles between hard runs.

     + Total distance run: 21359 ft. (4.05 miles)
 
Not good enough for serious science, perhaps, but it's what I was
shooting for.

BTW, welcome y'all back to Usenet.  I could never be bothered to root
through the /. web interface enough to post and the beta version is
the pits.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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#813

I once helped a buddy build his first home-built desktop computer and the
Abit motherboard came with a version of Turbolinux on board.  This must
have been back in about 1999 or 2000.  Sadly I can find no more information
on it.  Still it was pretty cool and quite useful for system recovery.

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#978

On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, Huge wrote:

> On 2014-02-11, q.kontinuum <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> This article shows the - in their opinion - weirdest places using Linux:
>>
>> http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/139614/#slide1
>>
>> In short, they show pictures of slow cookers, a small robot, tsunami-
>> sensors, Computer Engineer Barbie (ok, there is no Linux, just a picture
>> suggesting she might use Linux), Airplain entertainment system, a bark-
>> activated door (yes, really!) and some others.
>>
>> Can you beat this?
>
> When I unpacked a new Sony TV for our bedroom, a copy of the GPL fell
> out. And it's not even a particularly "smart" TV - no wifi or internet
> or any of that.
>
My $10 at a rummage sale TomTom One GPS uses Linux, my found on the 
sidewalk just needed a lense cleaning Pioneer blu-ray player uses linux,
my Best Buy LCD tv set uses linux.

   Michael

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#999

On 2014-02-26, Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2014, Huge wrote:
>
>> On 2014-02-11, q.kontinuum <achsis_of_elvis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This article shows the - in their opinion - weirdest places using Linux:
>>>
>>> http://www.networkworld.com/slideshow/139614/#slide1
>>>
>>> In short, they show pictures of slow cookers, a small robot, tsunami-
>>> sensors, Computer Engineer Barbie (ok, there is no Linux, just a picture
>>> suggesting she might use Linux), Airplain entertainment system, a bark-
>>> activated door (yes, really!) and some others.
>>>
>>> Can you beat this?
>>
>> When I unpacked a new Sony TV for our bedroom, a copy of the GPL fell
>> out. And it's not even a particularly "smart" TV - no wifi or internet
>> or any of that.
>>
> My $10 at a rummage sale TomTom One GPS uses Linux, 

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I have a TomTom One, too and as you
rightly point out, it runs Linux.

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"Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The
Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are
Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath"

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