[ale] BottleRocket

[cfowler at zfh-csg.penguinpowered.com]

I got the firecracker to work!

I did this:

cat </dev/firecracker &

Then ran the program.  For some reason you must do this.  I would
assum cat holds open the port and there are certain stty settings
when this happens.  I have not had the time 
to really look at this.  Maybe someone else will know.  I went
and bought the deluxe kit since I did get it to work.  Now cron
will control the house!  Maybe at will get a little
bit of usage too.  Like turn on a lamp when a process is finshed!
 Turn on other lamps depending on return code.
This could be fun

Chris
--- Original Message ---
"Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at rocketship.com> Wrote on 
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 20:43:10 -0400
 ------------------ 
I took advantage of their "pay for shipping and we'll get you
hooked" $6
offer recently, and experienced the same thing w/ Mandrake 6.0.
 I only
wanted to fool around with it.  As things are, the devices sit
on my desk
collecting dust right now.  Still a $6 for 3 paperweights isn't
too bad of a
deal. ;-)

----- Original Message -----
 From: <cfowler at zfh-csg.penguinpowered.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 7:40 PM
Subject: [ale] BottleRocket


>
> Anyone here use BottleRocket?  I've purchased the X10 FireCracker
> unit but have been unsucessful getting BottleRocket to work.
>  I have tried on 3 Machines. 2 RH6.0 and 1 RH5.2.  The winbloze
> program works fine.  Is there something that must be done in
> the OS to get this device to work?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Fowler
>
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