[aklug] Re: aklug Digest V11 #38

From: Jim Wadell <jim.wadell@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Feb 28 2012 - 11:35:46 AKST

I saw a guy a couple of years ago who had set up a full ubuntu system on a
Shiva plug using a USB mouse, keyboard, and video card. It used about 5
watts. Pretty neat!

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> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:59:51 -0900
> From: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>
> Subject: [aklug] Re: first assembly program!
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> On 02/26/2012 10:22 AM, barsalou wrote:
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> > Chris,
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> > I love your enthusiasm for this!
> >
> > Mike B.
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> >
>
> Thanks! I guess as I get older, I find myself less attracted to high
> level languages and frameworks, and more interested in how hardware
> works and how to manipulate it. <rant>Seems like one of the saddest
> things about the modern age is that we have computer technology more
> powerful and more advanced than anything even imagined throughout most
> of history, yet most people don't even care how any of it works, let
> alone understand it. Used to be that people (like Torvalds) wrote
> their own software in assembly just so they could send an e-mail. Now
> people don't even care what their operating system is doing, so long
> as it lets them log into WoW or check their Facebook page.</rant>
>
> Sigh... Anyway, I'm especially intrigued by this micro-controller
> technology. Seems like another overlooked wonder of our age, that
> anyone can buy a general purpose computer (has memory, processes
> instructions, etc.) half the size of your thumb for $30 and use it to
> control stuff. Pretty amazing if you sit back for a moment and think
> about it.
>
> - --
> frigidcode.com
> indicium.us
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