28 Apr
2004
28 Apr
'04
1:56 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 08:34:37AM -0400, John Boffemmyer IV wrote:
Quite nifty Ethan. Was thinking about tossing a serial
LCD or maybe
parallel on my old P200MMX (older than 10 years now - on topic I guess)
system that I'm scrapping together to make a file server out of. It always
helps to know a contributor to something being used is just a forum post
away =)
Glad to answer questions. My personal focus on the project is drivers for
interesting hardware (non-Hitachi-compatible VFDs, the PIC-an-LCD interface
to parallel LCDs, etc.) Down here, I'm using PalmOrb and a Palm Vx for my
display (no reason to ship down two things when one will do).
I took a stab at a Solaris port of LCDProc a few years back (1998?) but at
the time, I could only get about 60% of the stats that Linux provides in
the /proc filesystem, so I abandoned the effort in favor of someone else
who was adapting, I think, libpcap.
BTW: how's the weather down there? Heard you guys
were getting smacked with
some serious winds the other day.
Not too bad (see below)... winds over 20 knots are unfun. We set some records
earlier this month. Fortunately, there's an inverse relationship between
the temp and the winds (so it's anywhere from -35F to -55F when it's that
windy. Winds are normally calm below -65F).
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 29-Apr-2004 01:50 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -80.4 F (-62.5 C) Windchill -119.9 F (-84.40 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 8.5 kts Grid 060 Barometer 679.4 mb (10647. ft)
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