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<br></div><div><a href="http://chemicaloliver.net/electronics/sheevaplug-why-globalscale-suck/"></a>If you put "sheevaport reliability" in to a</div><div>google search you'll get an eye full. </div><div><br>
</div><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 08:34 -0500, Ben Rousch wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Bill Littlejohn <<a href="mailto:billl@mtd-inc.com">billl@mtd-inc.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> We have a series of intercoms in the shop that emit a buzz to let<br>
> >> people know when it's time to start work, go to lunch, or go home. Our<br>
> >> current time clock software sets a schedule for those buzzers and<br>
> >> stores it on the time clock. The time clock then trips a relay (or<br>
> >> something like that) at the appropriate time. The inexpensive clocks<br>
> >> do not seem to have to capability to control such a buzzer system.<br>
</div><div class="im">> I've just started looking into plug computers, like the SheevePlug. A<br>
> Linux install on a wall wart, with a USB port.<br>
> Maybe I can plug in one<br>
> of the previously-suggested USB relays and create a fairly simple<br>
> system. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug</a><br>
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</div>Everyone I've talked to who has used such devices reports a very high<br>
failure-rate [short life].<br>
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