Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Another idea while I remember (probably mentioned this in other posts in various places).
Cell phones.
Digital Cameras.
Take one Camera, give it about 128mb to cache pics, when pics are taken, uses the cell phone part to email (nfs) the pics out, then clear from internal ram to leave space for more pics.
Later revision;
Don't save the jpg, save the raw data from the CCD, can then edit the pic later to get better piccy.
Earlier revision;
Use bluetooth/wireless to dump pics to central server. Would be good for things like sporting events where a few photographers are dumping their data to a central store. Let the photographers concentrate on doing everything they can to get a good shot, then someone offline tweak the pics for better quality from the raw data.
Cell phones.
Digital Cameras.
Take one Camera, give it about 128mb to cache pics, when pics are taken, uses the cell phone part to email (nfs) the pics out, then clear from internal ram to leave space for more pics.
Later revision;
Don't save the jpg, save the raw data from the CCD, can then edit the pic later to get better piccy.
Earlier revision;
Use bluetooth/wireless to dump pics to central server. Would be good for things like sporting events where a few photographers are dumping their data to a central store. Let the photographers concentrate on doing everything they can to get a good shot, then someone offline tweak the pics for better quality from the raw data.
Ok, now the background.
Using asp.net with c#, I had a bit of trouble getting a popupbox to display, allow input/deletion, and reflect this on the form that called the popup.
Looked around abit, found some really wierd solutions that to be honest, befuddled me somewhat and seemed overkill on what should of been a simple problem. The problem of firing an event on a different frame from a popupwindow.
So, my way of doing it;
create a HTML button, call it;
btnShowDetails
Set it to be a 'Run as Server Control', then jam in the code you want to run.
What this does, lets the button easily be called from the popup window using;
All this does is allow the button to receive the postback from the popup.
Not seen this anywhere, but seems a fair bit simpler than some other solutions I've found out there. To improve this, can have the callback javascript preregistered on the popupwindow to make it a tad easier to call (and to get round some popup blockers that might stop this calling across frames). This as is works for me, hope this is of use to someone else out there as it took a fair bit to sus this out.
Using asp.net with c#, I had a bit of trouble getting a popupbox to display, allow input/deletion, and reflect this on the form that called the popup.
Looked around abit, found some really wierd solutions that to be honest, befuddled me somewhat and seemed overkill on what should of been a simple problem. The problem of firing an event on a different frame from a popupwindow.
So, my way of doing it;
create a HTML button, call it;
btnShowDetails
Set it to be a 'Run as Server Control', then jam in the code you want to run.
What this does, lets the button easily be called from the popup window using;
Response.Write("<script language='javascript'> {window.opener.__doPostBack('btnShowDetails', '') }</script>");
All this does is allow the button to receive the postback from the popup.
Not seen this anywhere, but seems a fair bit simpler than some other solutions I've found out there. To improve this, can have the callback javascript preregistered on the popupwindow to make it a tad easier to call (and to get round some popup blockers that might stop this calling across frames). This as is works for me, hope this is of use to someone else out there as it took a fair bit to sus this out.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Too much browsing/coding/coffee.
Was flicking through a magazine when I came upon a page full of text. My mind was half-way throught CTRL-F to search for, something, not sure what. If it had worked, I'd of ended up with what I was looking for. It's the fact that I was doing it without thinking fully that freaks me out the most, as I think it was very nearly working until my concious mind told me it was just a piece of paper.
So, should I;
A) Upgrade my visual cortex to make this work faster
B) Downgrade something that tells me this isn't possible.
Was flicking through a magazine when I came upon a page full of text. My mind was half-way throught CTRL-F to search for, something, not sure what. If it had worked, I'd of ended up with what I was looking for. It's the fact that I was doing it without thinking fully that freaks me out the most, as I think it was very nearly working until my concious mind told me it was just a piece of paper.
So, should I;
A) Upgrade my visual cortex to make this work faster
B) Downgrade something that tells me this isn't possible.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
So, heatsinks.
All these fins to extract the heat, then the fan/motor to move the air over the fins to cool them down so that they can suck up more heat.
Why isn't the Fan the fins? Rather than move the air over the fins, what about moving the fins through the air? Only thing I don't know about would be the bearing needed on this, can the lubricant used inside the bearing carry the heat across? So move the Motor ABOVE the fanFins, and just keep the bearing on contact to the thermal transfer point.
Just ideas as I think of them.
All these fins to extract the heat, then the fan/motor to move the air over the fins to cool them down so that they can suck up more heat.
Why isn't the Fan the fins? Rather than move the air over the fins, what about moving the fins through the air? Only thing I don't know about would be the bearing needed on this, can the lubricant used inside the bearing carry the heat across? So move the Motor ABOVE the fanFins, and just keep the bearing on contact to the thermal transfer point.
Just ideas as I think of them.
