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Submission + - A Twitter Client for the Commodore 64 (vandenbrande.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Johan Van den Brande have developed a Twitter client for the Commodore 64, allowing 140 character messages to be posted directly from this TV-connected 1982 home computer. This youtube video shows how the Twitter client is — slowly! — loaded from a 5.25" floppy disk, how the latest Twitter messages are downloaded and shown on the TV screen, and how this tweet is posted. All that is needed is a C64, a TV, and a C64 Ethernet card. The Twitter client is implemented with the Contiki operating system, which otherwise is used for connecting tiny embedded systems to the Internet.
Idle

Submission + - Chelyabinsk: Giant Smiley on Google Maps (wolfspelz.de)

Submitted by
Toramir
Toramir writes: "Citizens of the russian town Chelyabinsk calculated when the satellite QuickBird would cross above their city. QuickBird takes images for Google Earth and Google Maps. They created a giant smiley face. A rock concert on the main square attracted many people and everyone got a yellow cape.

And it worked. The image is on Google Maps. It looks like someone at Google was quicker than usual to put up the new data. Maybe Google likes the idea, that an entire town works hard to get it's 15 minutes of fame on Google Maps.

The article has a screenshot of Google Maps and images taken directly at the event."
Networking

Submission + - Cisco Launches Alliance for the Internet of Things (echannelline.com)

Submitted by Yannis B.
Yannis B. writes: This week, a group of leading technology vendors that include Cisco, Sun, Ericsson, Atmel, Freescale, and embedded open source developers, founded the Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance to promote the Internet of Things, where everyday objects such as thermometers, radiators, and light switches, are given IP addresses and are connected to the Internet. Such IP-enabled "smart objects" give rise to a wide range of applications, from energy-efficient homes and offices to factory equipment maintenance and hospital patient monitoring. For Slashdot readers who are interested in the underlying technology, a white paper written by well-known embedded open source developer Adam Dunkels and IETF ROLL working group chair JP Vasseur establishes the technical basis of the alliance.
Google

Submission + - Google goofs up Firefox's anti-phishing list (google.com)

Submitted by
Stephen
Stephen writes: "While phishing is a problem, giving one company the power to block any site that it wishes at the browser level never seemed like a good idea. Today Google blocked a host of legitimate web sites by listing mine.nu. mine.nu is available as a dynamic dns domain and anybody can claim a sub domain. All sub-domains are blocked regardless of whether phishing actually occurs on the sub-domain or not. Several Linux enthusiast sites are caught up in the net including Hostfile Ad Blocking and Berry Linux Bootable CD."
Software

Submission + - IP Meets Physical Reality - Next Stop for Google? (osnews.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: When Google is clouding the borderline between web and the desktop, a much, much smaller project is blurring the border between the Internet and the physical reality: the newly released Contiki operating system version 2.2.1. Contiki runs on networked wireless sensors that are used for anything from road tunnel monitoring for fire rescue operations to collecting vital statistics from ice hockey players. These sensors typically have as little as a few kilobytes of memory and a few milliwatts of power budget — a thousandth of the resources of a typical PC computer — yet Contiki provides them with full TCP/IP connectivity. Meanwhile, San Francisco is monitoring parking spaces with wireless technology. If IP can run on anything and the Internet is about to reach out into the physical reality, what happens when Google gets involved?

Comment Re:It's the same guy... (Score 2, Interesting) 442

by adadun (#6998456) Attached to: Finally: Broadband for the Commodore 64
ah, kicked that submit button too fast...

The RR-Net Ethernet card is a re-design and logical continuation of the TFE Ethernet card, for which Contiki was originally written. The RR-Net and the TFE are built upon the same Ethernet controller chip: the CS8900a, which has an 8-bit mode and is very well suited for interfacing with 8-bit CPUs and microcontrollers.

I am actually running Contiki together with an RR-Net Ethernet card on my 10 MBit/s broadband connection myself. Of course, it isn't actually possible to saturate the connection with the C64, but at least it is possible to finally use a C64 with the Internet without having to go through a PC, which is quite satisfying :-)

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