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Serial port problem part-way resolved
Blog Having put the 4 port serial card back into boron, the onboard port now works again, so I’ll probably continue with developing the software. The expansion card still doesn’t work though, so I’ve ordered a cheap 2-port card from eBay in the hope...
[June 19, 2008, 10:03]
Serial port problem solved
Blog Thanks to the chip manufacturer of the cheap serial port card, I’ve managed to get some extra serial ports working. If you can’t figure out how to get additional serial ports working, I recommend this guide [ZIP, 792KB] available from the Moschip...
[June 19, 2008, 10:03]
Parallel computing and serial stupidity
Blog Just back from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), where I had a most interesting conversation with some of the people behind the Maxwell experimental high performance computer. That's based on FPGAs - Field Programmable Gate Arrays...
[May 1, 2007, 1:59]
SFF PCs
Blog The audio system that I’m building requires 2 low-power computers: 1 for the touchscreen controller (not using an iPod Touch for the moment) and 1 to act as a webserver and serial-console server. These are the specs: magnesium (the black one) o 800...
[July 11, 2008, 9:17]
The VAMS-0808 matrix switcher and determining its protocol - part 2
Blog I rummaged around for a serial cable to connect the switcher to boron, the Ubuntu file server and found something that I thought would do the job. Sadly the switcher has a male connector, whereas for a standard serial cable it should be a male...
[March 19, 2008, 9:03]
Leaving Windows behind
Blog This entailed typing in the 25 character serial number, connecting to the authentication service, writing down a 54 digit number (because the wireless phone doesn't work propertly downstairs), and then writing down a 42 digit response number.
[June 8, 2009, 8:53]
Hitch with the audio system
Blog A while ago I bought a 4 port RS232 serial card to go into boron, because the motherboard only has 1 onboard port which isn’t enough for the UPS, the matrix switcher and probably some other things such as connections to network switches.
[May 13, 2008, 10:43]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I've been playing around with serial communications on PCs now for more than ten years, and still can't find what's wrong with this one: the thought surfaces, as it often does, "what chance have the punters got?
[April 4, 1997, 18:57]
0.1 terabit/s Ethernet...
Blog That says that adding parallel channels starts cheap but gets expensive, while speeding up a serial channel starts expensive but gets cheap. Thus, innovation in communications starts with a serial channel that goes as fast as it can, with extra...
[November 15, 2006, 22:07]
The Dongle - a case study in evolution
Blog The most common early usage for dongle was as a software protection plug-in, usually on an RS-232 serial port. The idea was clever but a practical failure, as users disliked tyng up a serial port this way.
[May 11, 2008, 13:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fortunately, the box has a serial port and can accept an update from a PC -- so I arrived equipped with the firmware and the appropriate updating software. Unfortunately, Nokia decided to make the serial port male, just like the one on a PC...
[October 1, 2004, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Serial ATA 3? And then it's on to more prosaic devices, like Serial-ATA RAID arrays, benchmarking tests, reliability evaluation and so on. Tuesday 23/09/2004 Jetlagged and jagged, I turn up at Waterloo Station to trek down to Havant, where a chunk...
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You have to shove a serial cable inside, hook it up to a terminal program and interrupt its boot-up sequence by sending the appropriate commands, but once you've done that the whole of the modem lies at your beck and, indeed, call.
[February 6, 2004, 15:10]
Junior doctor loses confidential patient data
Blog Around a third of junior doctors currently use universal serial bus (USB) sticks as a means of saving and storing patient data, to pass on to other members of the clinical team at the end of a shift. Apparently junior doctors are toting unencrypted...
[July 25, 2007, 18:10]
Seagate launch drive with 500GB on single platter
Blog The drive has a Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gb/second interface delivers which, according to Seagate, has "a sustained data rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second".
[January 7, 2009, 11:47]
CSC scuppers iSoft sale
Blog Of course, for the press it's a vastly entertaining serial story, so hey, do carry on. CSC, the primary contractor subcontracting work on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to iSoft, has blocked iSoft's proposed sale to the Australian healthcare...
[May 30, 2007, 13:09]
Laptop Review - Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog GB Serial ATA disk display, Intel X3100 graphic controller I have been using this new laptop for about a week now, and I am very pleased with it. There have been a couple of minor irritants, as is always the case with a new computer, but overall I...
[December 27, 2007, 12:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog David is certainly guilty of serial journalism and repeated acts of geekery - the man once edited .Exe Magazine - but until now I didn't consider such things as evidence of criminal behaviour. Thursday 22/9/2005
[September 23, 2005, 18:50]
Pleasant Linux Surprises
Blog Then I booted that in the DS10, followed the on-screen instructions (on a serial console, as that poor old thing doesn't even have a graphic card), and it installed perfectly. It is still nice when I get an occasional pleasant surprise from Linux.
[January 23, 2009, 9:02]
ARC facing a cut-price sell-off
Blog Tolerable during the dot com boom, in today’s harsh economic environment, a serial money loser needs to take drastic action to save itself or risk being cut off by its banks and creditors. Chip designer ARC International once enjoyed a £1 billion...
[August 19, 2009, 17:14]
