I can't be arsed spending 5 hours posting 600 drivels to let AtW get his 100,000th post.
I've got to be up in 5 hours!
G'night.
I've got to be up in 5 hours!
G'night.
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Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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Originally posted by BrowneIssue View PostI can't be arsed spending 5 hours posting 600 drivels to let AtW get his 100,000th post.
I've got to be up in 5 hours!
G'night.
Diver
G'night BI
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Originally posted by BrowneIssue View PostI can't be arsed spending 5 hours posting 600 drivels to let AtW get his 100,000th post.
I've got to be up in 5 hours!
G'night.
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Jus make 556 posts AtW, I'll do the rest to get to my 100,000Originally posted by AtW View Post
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Originally posted by Diver View PostJus make 556 posts AtW, I'll do the rest to get to my 100,000
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99444!
Well done AtW
I'm off to bed now.
Goodnight all
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Night Diver, night AtW - and a big shout out to the day shift.
I don't anticipate being on client site any earlier than 10.Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostSorry mate, that's UberGeekSpeak... not translatable into anything understandable by mere mortals like you & me... and Diver..."Pot, meet kettle..." "Hi kettle, how come you're black?"Originally posted by zeitghost View PostNot really.
It's just on/off modulated infra red, using a manchester encoding scheme at the standard frequency of 38kHz.
It's unusual in that the data stream is long enough to encode the entire alphanumeric character set (which is how you can get a keyboard that works with the Sky box).
I just implemented the on/off key, the sky button, and the digits 0 to 9.
It runs on an ancient 20MHz 286 compaq portable III under dos... and nothing else coz it uses timing loops to generate the 38kHz.
The infra red led is connected to one pin of the centronics parallel port.
What I've never completely sussed is how the box determines that you've kept a key pressed, I suspect it's in the repetition frequency of the data stream.
If you keep the same button pressed on the sky zapper, the box just sees the one key press.
If I do the same on my software, the box sees a succession of presses, and the only difference I can detect is the prf of the ir data... it's about 80ms for the zapper and about 120ms for my software.
Bored yet?
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It's the DJs mainly... if it can work for Johnny Vaughan (who I bumped into the other day, looking miserable as sin on the way home from his "breakfast show") then it probably works in other areas of the businessOriginally posted by zeitghost View PostTesting, testing, one, two, three, four...
I'm sure Hector didn't hear that.
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