[ale] BottleRocket

[Matthew Brown]

Could someone tell briefly what BottleRocket and FireCracker do?

-Matthew
----- Original Message -----
 From: David Hamm <dhamm at itrepro.com>
To: <cfowler at zfh-csg.penguinpowered.com>; <jimpop at rocketship.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [ale] BottleRocket


> I got bottlerocket and it worked first try.  I did use /dev/ttyS1 instead
of
> setting up/linking to a /dev/bottlerocket.
>
>  On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, cfowler at zfh-csg.penguinpowered.com
> wrote: > 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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