So it has an IR pick up, and a 2.4 GHz Tx for the PC. Can someone please clarify whether this wee little beastie is IR, RF or both.
Oh, and radio controlled is wireless. I might just be a little picky here, and I assume it uses both technologies, but a more clear piece of tech info there would be good.
Mac and Windows users could easily use this thing, if they wanted.
You said the software was Open Source. So all Mac and Windows users have to do is compile it for their platforms! I'm guessing the Windows C compiler has some sort of flashy GUI where you just drag-n-drop a makefile and it does the rest for you. And Macs are just Unix workstations, so they'll just use GCC.
The Windows version is a little Steve Ballmer bot which destroys some of your furniture every time you do a search on Google, and makes threatening noises any time the word "Linux" appears on a web page. Even better, fire up Visual Studio and it breaks out into a profuse sweat, spinning around on it's rump and repeating the word "developers" over and over.
Of course it's incompatible with Mac and Linux. Sheesh, do you even have to ask?
It's a two parter... The BSD Daemon having demeaning things done to him by a Jobs doll. Bastards bastardized my favorite BSD! And not in the good BOFH bastardly way.
There is a primary school up here in Boston that has one; it's programmed to greet the students and the teacher brings it to installfests so we can have it greet people and have to play with python.
After years of crying about a lack of Linux support, someone goes out and makes a product that deliberately supports only Linux? Where's the hypocrisy nazis now?
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Anonymous Coward
The ersatz felt-covered Tux is wireless #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 12:20 GMT
So its particularly difficult to control from a linux based pc then :)
Anonymous Coward
I prefer... #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 12:36 GMT
...my Linux Penguin Loo Brush Holder.
TeeCee
Put another way. #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 12:38 GMT
Gut the innards from a warehouse full of unsold Nabaztags(tm)*, stuff 'em into penguin suits and flog to sad geeks.
*'cos there aren't enough rabbit-loving drooling idiots in the world, that's why.
Edward Rose
Come again? #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 13:45 GMT
So it has an IR pick up, and a 2.4 GHz Tx for the PC. Can someone please clarify whether this wee little beastie is IR, RF or both.
Oh, and radio controlled is wireless. I might just be a little picky here, and I assume it uses both technologies, but a more clear piece of tech info there would be good.
Anton Channing
I like GNU/Linux... #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 13:45 GMT
...and this product is kinda cute(*), but seems a tad over priced for what it is if you ask me.
(*) Albeit somewhat nerdy and gimmicky at the same time.
Daniel
recoil in fear, Gates! #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 13:45 GMT
The end is nigh!
Leu
more info #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 15:27 GMT
He does have both an IR sensor (for the remote control - like a tv one) and he connects to your machine through wireless (via dongle).
Lot more information available at his site http://www.tuxisalive.com/
andy rock
RE: I like GNU/Linux... #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 15:27 GMT
"seems a tad over priced for what it is if you ask me."
give it a couple of weeks, look on ebay. ;-)
A J Stiles
Mac and Windows users #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 15:27 GMT
Mac and Windows users could easily use this thing, if they wanted.
You said the software was Open Source. So all Mac and Windows users have to do is compile it for their platforms! I'm guessing the Windows C compiler has some sort of flashy GUI where you just drag-n-drop a makefile and it does the rest for you. And Macs are just Unix workstations, so they'll just use GCC.
Edwin
At last! #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 15:52 GMT
A bit of hardware without WINDOWS support!
Tim
Windows version #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 16:42 GMT
I can just imagine the Windows version being a toy Bill Gates that spins around on it's rump.
Scary!
Maybe the Mac version is a Steve Jobs that if introduced to the Bill droid it will beat him up.
Ethan Grammatikidis
DnD Makefiles? #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 16:57 GMT
I don't think the shiny and mighty IDEs of Windows stoop so low as to use Makefiles.
I would suggest that it might be compiled with cygwin, but I suspect the dongle requires a kernel module for True Incompatibility.
Paul
Windows version #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 19:50 GMT
The Windows version is a little Steve Ballmer bot which destroys some of your furniture every time you do a search on Google, and makes threatening noises any time the word "Linux" appears on a web page. Even better, fire up Visual Studio and it breaks out into a profuse sweat, spinning around on it's rump and repeating the word "developers" over and over.
Of course it's incompatible with Mac and Linux. Sheesh, do you even have to ask?
Coat. Bloody cold out.
Anonymous Coward
Mac Version #
Posted Friday 7th December 2007 21:45 GMT
It's a two parter... The BSD Daemon having demeaning things done to him by a Jobs doll. Bastards bastardized my favorite BSD! And not in the good BOFH bastardly way.
Charlie Clark
Overpriced #
Posted Saturday 8th December 2007 00:50 GMT
€ 79 ( £55) at http://www.kysoh.com/
And it doesn't do Perl, it does Python! :-D A real geek's toy though my mate says his two-year old thinks it's ace.
Martin Owens
We have one #
Posted Saturday 8th December 2007 14:41 GMT
There is a primary school up here in Boston that has one; it's programmed to greet the students and the teacher brings it to installfests so we can have it greet people and have to play with python.
ben edwards
Oh, that's not nice #
Posted Monday 17th December 2007 03:30 GMT
After years of crying about a lack of Linux support, someone goes out and makes a product that deliberately supports only Linux? Where's the hypocrisy nazis now?