Hacker tea (was Re: Late Nights and Caffeine)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Aug 17 10:53:21 1999

So . . . Linux will use the parallel port to turn on the coffee maker, but
who'll fetch, measure, mix, and grind the beans? When does it clean out the
coffee pot and put the old coffee in the house-plants? What about the
filter? Hmmmm?

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: Hacker tea (was Re: Late Nights and Caffeine)


>At 11:05 PM 8/16/99 -0400, LordTyran wrote:
>>
>>As stupid/crazy/cool as it seems, there is a Linux-Coffeemaker-HOWTO.
>>Tells you how to use an SCR or a relay to hook up your coffee makes to
>>your parallel port, add a /dev/coffeemaker entry (basically a ln to
>>/dev/parX) and add a cron daemon entry to make your coffee each morning.
>
>X-10 stuff is more flexible and probably less expensive. I jumped
>for the $6 promo news-ertised on Slashdot a few weeks ago, and have
>been sorely tempted to buy more, so I guess the plan worked. The
>offer is still up there.
>
>What? No one's going to stand up and defend the ice-cold can of
>Diet Mountain Dew?
>
>- John
>
Received on Tue Aug 17 1999 - 10:53:21 BST