its linked to their redhat - not sure what version is actually on the scanner but it comes up with linux penguin on boot
Ah ya my work (retail) does something similar. Its still running CE but connects to an external server.
the windows version was too easy to hack so they put linux on them -will see if i can get a guide written up for you
ha CE lol, (dont try this but) if you copy the registry of the scanner(easily done with usb script and an old usb typeA otg) you can go to these entries and delete them to get sys admin access
"{B6235F29-5B71-4389-A0A6-ACF2758AC1DC}"=hex:00,00,00,00
"{2EACC9DF-C9BF-428E-9074-D50B57D0D747}"=hex:2F,00,2A,00,22,00,24,00,3B,00,3C,00,73,00,52,00,07,00,1E,00,17,00,3C,00,2B,00,35,00,27,00,25,00,16,00,0A,00,3C,00,3D,00,0D,00,2F,00,3E,00,25,00,37,00,21,00,08,00,06,00,19,00,11,00,0C,00,57,00
then save them back to the gun and start removing inventory from the records - a theif's dream
(legal notice) i will not be held responsible for any action taken in light of this information, and is provided as a guide for education purposes) :)
why not something like this with voice recognition
check my other idea on the of topic /you put linux on that
Well that went right over my head! I love IT but I'm not so much in software. I do know that my workplace that uses these have them locked down.
How about a GNU/Linux embedded speech synthesizer with Fran Drescher's voice replacing the lcd? You could see how hot your coffee is AND annoy your colleagues at the same time! Your own voice, Jame's Earl Jones, or Marylynne Monroe would be cool too.
Linux powered frying pan. It automatically updates your social media so that everyone knows you are cooking pretentious shite formerly known as bacon. Truly this is what we all need in our lives. Maybe add a selfie stick for the hardcore narcissists.
Or... if you are feeling evil install Linux on a pen, add some sensors and record everything that is written. Top marks if you give it WiFi too. You could call it the Orwellian Scribe.
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I'm thinking really monotonous everyday office equipment, like maybe installing Linux on an electric stapler or a paper shredder. Or, you could make an homage to Father Ted and install Linux on a tape dispenser, and have it count how many inches of tape you've used with a little LCD on the side.
Insall Linux in a water bottle, put an accelerometer on it, and have it take a picture of you every time it detects you taking a drink of water (i.e., up-ending the bottle) and uploading it to Facebook, and then at the end of the day, it posts to all your friends how many swigs of water you've had that day.
NotNot's list of things that shouldn't have an OS.
Snes because if Nintendo wants to sell a FOSS based emulator console than FOSS should come to the Super Nintendo.
Electric Radiator, so you have to SSH into the radiator to turn it on.
A talking doll, you know like Woody reads out the terminal lines with text to speech when you pull the string "Theres a Sudo in my terminal".
A GPU. If you could get into the ARM core on an AMD or Nvidia gpu you could in theory (and an awful lot of work) have Linux OS of some description in a graphics card. So you'd whip out a beige box and say "I installed Linux on this" then open the case to find just a hacked GPU sitting by itself. There was a Hack-A-Day article describing how through debug pins a STMicroelectronics MCU was able to give commands to the Xtensa core inside an old AMD GPU and drive the video output. Its not the same CPU but one of the same family of Xtensa ARM CPU's is inside the ESP8266 wifi modules. EDIT: I should add you want to use some massive Gateway steel coffin 250 pound desktop case, lift it up and slam it down on the desk then start listing off its specs like "200mhz main processor" you'll get someone who goes "oh he didnt just install Linux on an old PC did he?"
Tap dancing shoes, youve got to tap dance in morse code to type in the terminal. If you can do lord of the dance you'll port Halo3 to native linux or something.
A plant, somehow connect the leaves of a houseplant to act as an input. Short cut to root involves digging up the soil and touching the root or maybe just a moisture sensor near the roots goes off when you water the plant.
Fridge but not the internet of shite crap fridge, when there is less beer on the top shelf your account has less permissions, ipso facto the drunker you get the less chance you GET to mess up the system, that system being something like a local server or whatever. The older the fridge the better. (mini fridge maybe)
Fan, the twist is its configured for voice commands but only voice commands spoken though the fan while its on.
Clock, a typical analogue clock. Linux OS controls some fine pitch stepper motors to set the time, you could play a prank on someone by asking them to sit in a bare room and see how long it takes for them to notice the clock seconds hand is moving forward while the minute and hours hands move one step backwards for every other step forwards.
Printer / copier, okay linux on this kind of thing has been done before but the twist is you take a dumb standard commercial printer, ideally old enough to look like its done the rounds with at least someones butt cheeks at one or more office party but integrate a camera, microphone, use it to first detect a human face capture and print an image of it then when the person says "oh what the f!" you can have the printer put out a page or two of "I know right!" the printer could be left mostly stock standard except for some tiny little computer is controlling the user interface / buttons.
Heh. I think something like this came up a few years ago when a DRM on a game was so horrible and broken that the publisher just used the hack from the internet to patch the bad DRM out of the game.
I also think something like this showed up on GoG or Steam with an older DOS title as well.
I want to put the Echo device in a room where nothing but Terratino and spy movies play continuously. It'll be F-bombs, N-bombs, and nuke bombs.
Great episode as always and once again loved getting laughs from a tech news show. Keep up the good work.
@Wendell : watching your appearance on the Lunduke Hour, I think you should put Linux into a deskmat.
It would somewhat be like roll-up computer that would also serve as a deskmat for itself. Put in some smaller USB connectors (for the mouse and keyboard and USB power in), an HDMI out connector, and maybe a bluetooth connector.
This is actually something that goes way back. Sega still uses ROM's that they pulled from random warez sites. Almost all of the 16-bit Sega Genesis/ Mega Drive collections that they have been releasing for decades now have been using pirated ROM's. I think Square-Enix also did the same thing with ROM rips for some of their older 8 and 16bit Final Fantasy re-releases. A lot of these older ROM collections do this.
There were a couple SNES games re-released on Steam via emulation and they had issues with emulators being GPL'd under multiple different licenses due to the different contributors, and this caused some disputes.
I don't think there are any good "DOSbox" equivalents for the majority of these older console emulators. By that I mean, DOSbox is under one solitary license that allows publishers to release their older DOS era software on sites like GOG or Steam using DOSbox. With console emulators, it is almost developers/ publishers have to write their own from scratch just to avoid any licensing issues. This is why we don't see many classic console collections from other publishers.
Bigger developers like Sega have their own proprietary emulators for some of their classic consoles (Genesis, Dreamcast), and Nintendo has their own Virtual console/ NES Mini emulators. But for many other publishers/ license holders who have games released on these older machines don't really have much to work with. Even the Retron 5 aftermarket console had dispute issues with the emulator software in the machine. It stole a lot of its cores and codebase from the Retro Arch development team.
But that is a whole other topic.
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Think last time you had to do something trivial, and it was annoying. Can that be automated?
Think last time a device beeped at you, annoying as crap. Be much easier if it just emailed you, or did something about it itself.
There is scope to put linux on something that might already be running linux, to push it's buttons or enhance its performance.
Just wait until Samsung builds their vape:
Could the Apple vaporizer be some kind of cooler?