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(...) Excellent point, Benton Jackson e-mailed me with the following: (...) Good idea using a external sensor to seed some sort of random number generator function. However, the codebase for PGP is pretty darned large and after looking at the source (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The key word is a "good" generator. Random() is way too predictable to use in a crypto application. (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Remote control and lejos: You can download a Java object to accept commands from the remote. Check out (URL) lejos. Roger (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | Re: NQC "No reply from RCX" Help Please
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Wow! Hey..thanks..that was it. I hadn't changed my batteries in any of my RCX since I got them. When I changed all of them a few weeks ago, I must have lost the firmware. I saw your name..and was like.."hmm where have I heard of you before" then I (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Re: NQC "No reply from RCX" Help Please
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Is the firmware still installed on the RCX? When you turn it on if it just shows a single digit, then there isn't any firmware. With firmware loaded you should see something like "00.00!1" where ! is the LCD icon of a person. If firmware is not (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) If you mean wiping the firmware, press ON and Prgm at the same time. If you want to delete individual programs, I've cooked up a little C code (on the PC side) to do that. It requires liblnp and lnpd. If you want, I'll post it or e-mail it to (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I had a similar problem with the "sort" program apparently not functioning and then someone kindly looked at my error output and pointed out that I should make sure that the CYGWIN bin path was added to the FRONT of my path as declared in my (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Even if it needed FP, legOS supports that. (...) Well, maybe. Maybe not. legOS has a random() function, right? Once the TCP/IP patch is stable, why not use an RCX as an echo server with built in en/decryption? You could just telnet to it, type (...) (23 years ago, 9-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) First, you are doing a great job! The support for pbForth is a good idea. And there is only one thing to make BricxCC better, if someone port it to Linux. Best Regards Joerg (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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 | | Re: Attention cygwin and windows users
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Quoting Ed Manlove (emanlove@ieee.org): (...) If we actually get to the point of doing another release (and thus finding a maintainer for the project, etc) maybe this is something we should consider integrating? Anyone else building on Cygwin and (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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For those using the cygwin tools under a windows OS as described in the article "LegOS 0.2.4 - Instructions for installing on NT/Win9x with Cygwin" you could be experiencing a conflict with dos and cygwin tools. In particular is you are following (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Zhengrong, I know this is an old post but what was your setup for this build (OS,cygwin?, etc)? Ed (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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For clarity I am running under Win98 using CYGWIN tools as outlined by the instructions "LegOS0.2.4 - Instructions for installing on NT/Win9x with Cygwin". I was looking for help on the sort command using $sort --help but I was getting a similar (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I see one reason for that: 1x1 Square Plates tend to turn and don't stay aligned. You don't have this problem with round pieces... Philo www.philohome.com (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Quoting Ed Manlove (emanlove@ieee.org): (...) I can't speak for absolute certain about this, not being familiar with that part of the code, but sort -u is used to unique a list of strings. That is, if you pipe a file: spam spam spam eggs through (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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What is the sort command doing in the command to create *.map files within the Makefile.kernal? # how to make map files %.map: %.coff $(NM) $*.coff | sort -u > $*.map Doing my build I get the following error and the resulting map file has size zero. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi. I just received a Ultimate Builders Set today and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I have however a pair of questions that maybe someone could explain me. 1. There are four 'Technic Liftarm 1 x 9 (7 x 3)' (572) included (in very funny colors) (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Ahhh..can someone please help me out here. I'm at my last straw with this problem. I'm Using: Bricxcc 3.3 NQC 2.4 a4 Windows 98 USB Tower from RIS 2.0 This has all worked about a month ago.. I haven't made any hardware changes to my system recently, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks a lot! Now I at least know WHAT I have... too bad I can't use it. I have 2 sets, if anybody's interested, drop me a line at javanree@vanree.net and I'm sure we can work something out :) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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(...) Jan This comes from the original LEGO TC Logo materials (1980s) and was used as a counting wheel. You could use it as a rotation sensor by counting the number of seperations between black and white. It could also be used as an angle sensor. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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