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On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:55 +0000, James wrote: |
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> Hello Folks, |
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> In a previous thread I was curious about DLNA and anyone's experiences |
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> with it. DLNA is definitely a new MicroSoft Infection! |
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> As it turns out, a very bright (savant) EE friend of mine shared his recent |
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> experience with DLNA: |
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> QUOTE: |
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[interesting story] |
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> end rant. |
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> END/QUOTE |
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I just Don't Get It(TM). |
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Being an embedded programmer, it is so friggin cheap and easy to chuck |
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on a TTL-USB chip with drivers available for just about anything. Then |
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you have usb-serial (or plain old serial if you want). Plonk your own |
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version of a tiny binary protocol on it an voila! |
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Why manufacturers crap around with complicated high-level non-compliant |
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non-standards is beyond me. |
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end rant :) |
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-- |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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It's now the GNU Emacs of all terminal emulators. |
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-- Linus Torvalds, regarding the fact that Linux started off as a terminal emulator |
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