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#245835 - 07/01/2005 15:37 WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
I'm looking to purchase two or three extra RioCar/Empeg players. Drives not needed, perfect working order not necessarily required.

If you have one for sale, or one that you'd be willing to sell to me, then please email me ASAP: mlord at pobox dot com

Thanks!

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#245836 - 07/01/2005 22:44 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
canuckInOR
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
Out of curiosity... are you planning on needing a bunch of spares all of a sudden? That sounds dangerous.

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#245837 - 07/01/2005 23:00 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: canuckInOR]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
I appreciate your sincere concern, but these would be for a more benign purpose.

I'm preparing a week-long course on embedded Linux programming, to be run a few times this year. We need an embedded platform for the programming exercises, and this just happens to be one of the more interesting ones under consideration. And hey.. if I can expand my empeg collection as a biz expense, well..

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#245838 - 08/01/2005 00:00 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
canuckInOR
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
Heh heh. I like your style of thinking. It sounds like an interesting course -- if you were local, I'd consider taking it.

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#245839 - 08/01/2005 00:01 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
rob
carpal tunnel

Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
Quote:
I'm preparing a week-long course on embedded Linux programming, to be run a few times this year

Ooo.. are the courses for a particular client, or available to anyone? At what sort of level will they be pitched?

Rob

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#245840 - 08/01/2005 02:22 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: rob]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Quote:
Ooo.. are the courses for a particular client, or available to anyone? At what sort of level will they be pitched?

Rob


A bit too advanced for someone of your background, I suspect. Especially the lab portions..

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#245841 - 08/01/2005 02:24 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: canuckInOR]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Quote:
if you were local, I'd consider taking it.


If you're still in LA, I actually am "local" there 2-3 times a year! But maybe not for much longer, 'least if I don't pay more attention to my clients there! Or, rather, in Irvine.

Cheers

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#245842 - 08/01/2005 13:30 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
rob
carpal tunnel

Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
Quote:
A bit too advanced for someone of your background, I suspect. Especially the lab portions..

It goes without saying that my entire engineering background was sucked out of me the day someone added "Manager" to my job title. Early warning systems have been installed to mobilise the population of Cambridge in the event that I should even approach a soldering iron.

Nonetheless, I remain interested on behalf of some of my staff-to-be!

Rob

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#245843 - 08/01/2005 13:52 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: rob]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Quote:
my entire engineering background was sucked out of me the day someone added "Manager" to my job title.


Heh heh.. I know that menace well. When they tried that out on me, I started hacking OS/2 and then Linux in all of my "free" hours to compensate. Eventually this enabled me to cut free from the M-word shackles, and get back to real life on my own!

This course is being developed for delivery to a specific client, twice in the next six weeks or so, but I anticipate having it made available to others after the initial runs.

Currently the content and pace are geared to match the needs of the lead customer (always a good strategy to bootstrap a new product). At the end of the week, it should leave them at a point where they could intelligently discuss embedded Linux systems with anyone from the Cambridge team.

Whether they could "make that team" or not afterward, would depend much more heavily on their individual capabilities than on anything I can show them during the week. I'm hoping they aren't quite that far along yet, so that they'll be happier with the content of the course (the hope of instructors everywhere?).

Cheers!

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#245844 - 08/01/2005 22:52 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
rob
carpal tunnel

Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
Do you think you could have your students right a bit of an open source player during each course, so eventually we have a complete application?

Rob

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#245845 - 09/01/2005 02:25 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: rob]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Heh he.. Actually, I was going to have them write a micro-FTP server, that supports PASsiVe mode, to replace the one in Hijack!

Cheers

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#245846 - 09/01/2005 11:05 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
pgrzelak
carpal tunnel

Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Just make sure you keep a very careful watch on your players that your students do not, uh, "acquire" one for themselves... After seeing what they can do, you may have a theft problem on your hands...
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#245847 - 09/01/2005 12:26 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
SonicSnoop
addict

Registered: 29/06/2002
Posts: 531
Loc: Triangle, VA
You should record the class and post it on the FAQ page so us programming newbies can take it
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#245848 - 10/01/2005 12:14 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: SonicSnoop]
stahimooney
member

Registered: 29/04/2002
Posts: 126
Loc: Virginia
I have one that boots, appears to run, you can debug it, copy files to and from, but does not have audio out... the DSP has been replaced by Stuart at Eutronix with no luck.

Would that one fit your purposes?
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#245849 - 10/01/2005 13:25 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: stahimooney]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Sounds perfect. Email me a price, please!

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#245850 - 11/01/2005 03:33 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
siberia37
old hand

Registered: 09/01/2002
Posts: 702
Loc: Tacoma,WA
Quote:
I appreciate your sincere concern, but these would be for a more benign purpose.

I'm preparing a week-long course on embedded Linux programming, to be run a few times this year. We need an embedded platform for the programming exercises, and this just happens to be one of the more interesting ones under consideration. And hey.. if I can expand my empeg collection as a biz expense, well..


If you need another embedded linux platform for your course- then you might consider a Hauppage MediaMVP.. I have one very cheap in this very forum.

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#245851 - 12/01/2005 19:27 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
canuckInOR
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
I am still here. If you ever have spare time while you're down here, feel free to look me up.

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#245852 - 14/01/2005 01:00 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: canuckInOR]
Mataglap
enthusiast

Registered: 11/06/2003
Posts: 384
I'm in SoCal as well, San Diego to be exact, but get to LA often. Is it time to try and pull together a empeg meet?

--Nathan

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#245853 - 25/01/2005 00:50 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: Mataglap]
canuckInOR
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
We certainly could. Unfortunately, I won't have time to do (or help with) the organizing for the next few months, at least. At any rate, we shouldn't hijack Mark's thread for this...

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#245854 - 25/01/2005 23:13 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: canuckInOR]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
Oh, don't worry about my thread here now! No longer want the players -- couldn't get enough of them in time.

Cheers

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#245855 - 26/01/2005 04:43 Re: WANTED: 2-3 Empeg/Rio Car players [Re: mlord]
canuckInOR
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
Too bad. What did you end up using, instead?

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