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| If anyone would like more information on the new book "Core Lego Mindstorms Programming" check out my announcement on Lugnet: (URL) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
| | |  | | Reading exceptions
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| Hello, I've recently started working with lejOS and was having some dificulty with my code. When ever I get an exception, there is a buzz, the arrow under the 2 lights up, and a number like "0078 8" shows up. I was wondering how I read this number (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
| | |  | | Re: RCX as a PGP engine
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| (...) They don't, but they need bignums (really big integers). (...) the API is in java.math.BigInteger . (...) You could just run PPP over it I suppose, with some encryption (IPSec?) on top of it. Would be dead slow, though. The charm of the RCX (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
| | |  | | Re: LeJos threads / sleep() takes too long
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| Hi Bart, (...) if you mean LISTENER_THREAD then that sounds plausible. (...) Yes, LISTENER_THREAD has maximum priority, so it runs before any threads of lower priority, even yield doesn't help. (...) Yes, I think we'll have to fix that somehow. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
| | |  | | LeJos threads / sleep() takes too long
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| Experimenting with Lejos, two 'major' problems: memory (cleaning up platform & lang: Math.class is huge!) and... threads. I have the impression my "try { sleep(nnn) }" takes a somewhat arbitrary time. It's 'at least' nnn milisec, but often much (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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