[plug] Talk, 12th October

[Simon Newton]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Simon Newton <lists at nomis52.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Tim <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I notice you have a GuruPlug in your slides.
>> Have you found a supplier in Australia or did you get it imported?
>> What's it like working on them?
>
> I live in San Francisco so I order direct from Global Scale in LA. If
> you don't expect much (any) support they're fine. The orders usually
> take about 2 weeks to ship.

More details:

The first version I was sent (guruplug plus) would occasionally reboot
when connected to a gigabit ethernet port. They offered to swap it for
a later model but I couldn't afford the delay in sending it back to
them at the time. The second, non-plus version I have works fine. Some
people have complained about heat output but that hasn't been an issue
for me, then again my application hardly uses the cpu.

The software is a bit hack & slash - there is a script in /root that
is called on startup which configures networking & reloads the
bluetooth to avoid some race condition. I haven't encountered anything
that can't be fixed.


Simon
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> Simon
>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On 13 October 2010 19:47, Simon Newton <lists at nomis52.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Simon Newton <lists at nomis52.net> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tim <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Our next talk is on the 12th of October, again at the Futuresphere.
>>>>>
>>>>> Simon has volunteered to do a talk, which is going to be on OpenDMX.
>>>>> http://opendmx.net/index.php/OLA
>>>>>
>>>>> As some background: It's open source software that enables the control
>>>>> of equipment (typically lighting rigs) used in the entertainment
>>>>> industry. Over the last 10 years, the industry has slowly been moving
>>>>> away from serial links and towards IP based protocols . OLA implements
>>>>> half a dozen different IP control protocols as well as interfacing to
>>>>> number of hardware interfaces (the things that actually talk to the
>>>>> lights).
>>>>
>>>> I can promise colorful flashing lights, robotics, embedded linux
>>>> platforms & ajax web UIs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is a link to the slides:
>>> https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0ARQ7VaslLEVSZDloN2Q4OF8yOWRqdzVtOWQ1&hl=en
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Timothy White - Somewhere in Australia
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>>>>> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
>>>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Timothy White - Somewhere in Australia
>> _______________________________________________
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>> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
>> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
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