Comments on: StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance

Comment on StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance by: Benj Edwards

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:39:41 +0000

By the way, Dorian, that wasn't me.. it was "Myself." Go figure.

Comment on StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance by: Dorian

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:05:59 +0000

Jim:
You can select Sports as a news feed, but it's not limited to scores. I haven't found a reliable XML/RSS feed for just sports scores. Let me know if you spot one!

Benj:

If you publish an RSS feed for your server stats I might be able to put something together. MRTG - multi router traffic grapher?

Comment on StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance by: Myself

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:18:41 +0000

Gee, I've only planned to write this myself for a decade or so Just proves that if I wait long enough, someone else will do it for me! Only my version was gonna render MRTG data in ASCII and show stats on the server in the next room, too.

Tellya what, a pair of Ricochet RF modems make handy serial extensions. Put your StarTTY terminal a half mile from its host! The latency is too variable for things like ASCII DOOM, but it works fine for most other telnet apps, and the modems would be pretty darn bored with this level of traffic.

Comment on StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance by: Benj Edwards

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:51:54 +0000

Indeed, my friend. Indeed!

Comment on StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance by: KitsuneDarkStalker

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:04:57 +0000

You should do this to your old Powerbook!

Comment on StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance by: Jim Ulrich

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:21:57 +0000

Two modules I would like to see for this:

1. Sports scores

2. Fake doomsday (or other countdown) clock. It would feel like you were in a movie from the 1960′s.