The X10i peripheral board compliments any PC based platform (including Firefly 700), adding all of the control, I/O and security needed in modern amusement or gaming machines.

Key features of the Firefly X10i board include:
* Remotely mounted via USB cable
* On-board security device
* Battery backed SRAM
* Inputs for switches
* Open drain outputs for lamps, meters and reels
* Meter current sensing
* High current outputs
* Windows® XP Embedded / Linux drivers
* Additional serial I/O:
o RS232
o TTL
o ccTalk
* DIL Switches
* Stereo audio amplifier

Heber Firefly X10i Control Board

I worked recently on a design of a lightweight Internet-based payment system using SOAP, and after having done so, I learned a number of valuable lessons that I thought I'd pass on here. First I'll talk about why I chose this route, then I'll talk a little bit about recent changes in the SOAP community, including the directions that this technology appears to be moving.

ONLamp.com -- The Evolution of SOAP::LITE

Scale your perl CGI infinitely.

Apache: Practical mod_perl

How to setup gSOAP to use https/ssl to access SOAP Services. With Perl's SOAP::Simple, and this integration is a snap.

HTTPS (SSL) for SOAP in C++ with gSOAP

In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain microbes from outer space.

Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600 degrees Fahrenheit . (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250 degrees Fahrenheit .)

Kerala is where the Indian monsoon begins...

Mysterious red cells might be aliens� - Jun 2, 2006 - CNN.com

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Daily doses of antioxidants may reduce the frequency and severity of migraine headaches for patients who don't response to drug treatment, a small new study suggests.
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Eleven men and women with a long history of migraine did not respond to several type of drugs, including beta-blockers, antidepressants and anticonvulsants, had fewer and less severe headaches, on average, after taking capsules containing an extract of pine bark, vitamin C and vitamin E every day for three months, according to a report in the journal Headache.

There is evidence that damaging molecules known as free radicals, which are produced by normal metabolism, may contribute to the development of migraine, Dr. Sirichai Chayasirisobhon of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Anaheim, California notes. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals and could thus help prevent migraine from occurring.

To investigate, he treated 12 patients to 10 capsules containing 120 mg pine bark extract, 60 mg vitamin C and 30 IU vitamin E every day for three months. Study participants completed a test designed to assess the amount of disability caused by migraine, known as MIDAS, before and after the three-month treatment period. Eleven patients completed the trial.

After three months, the patients had an average 50.6-percent improvement in MIDAS scores. In the three months before the treatment, they reported an average of 44.4 days of headache, compared to 26.0 days during the three-month treatment. Before treatment, participants rated their headache severity, on average, as 7.5 out of 10; this fell to 5.5 out of 10 after treatment.

Two patients showed no reduction in disability, headache severity or headache days after treatment. When the analysis was limited to the nine responders, MIDAS scores showed a 67.9 percent reduction.

The findings suggest "that this antioxidant supplementation may mitigate some as yet unknown mechanisms involved in a migraine attack," Chayasirisobhon writes.

He concludes: "The substantial effect shown by the antioxidant formulation in the present study in lessening the impact of migraine on patients' daily activities warrants further investigation."

I'm taking a multivitamin. Sure beats barbiturates.

Antioxidant combo may prevent some migraines - Yahoo! News

● The interstates were originally designed to be able to run military equipment from coast to coast on flatbed trailers at sustained speeds of 75 mph.

● Did you know that if you're on interstate 5, you have 5% of the U.S. left to the west of you? If you are on interstate 95, you have 95% left to the west of you?

● If you are on interstate 20, you have 20% of the U.S. left to the south of you? If you are on interstate 90, you have 90% left to the south of you?

● ALL [or mostly all] interstates going east or west have EVEN numbers. ALL interstates going north or south have ODD numbers.

● If a city bypass has an even number it loops [called a LOOP] back to the same interstate. i.e. I-440 ends back up on I-40.

● If a city bypass has an odd number it does NOT loop [called a SPUR] back to the same interstate. i.e. I-540 does not come back to I-40.

Highway know-how from truckers.

-janelane

What are those dots? Good info though.

Map Facts & Highway Facts by Truckers

What is CT Scanning of the Head?

Computed tomography (CT), sometimes called CAT scan, uses special x-ray equipment to obtain many images from different angles and then join them together to show a cross-section of body tissues and organs. CT scanning provides more detailed information on head injuries, stroke, brain tumors and other brain diseases than do regular radiographs (plain x-ray films). It also can show bone, soft tissues and blood vessels in the same images. CT of the head and brain is a patient-friendly exam that involves radiation exposure.

I want to get the digital format from them and import it to 3DSMax and shoot my brain with a cartoon bullet. But they say I can only have a printout, and I have to bring it back because its hospital property. Fuckers. Its my brain.

CT Scanning of the Head (Computed Tomography or CAT Scan)

During a lumbar puncture, a needle is inserted into the spinal canal. Samples of CSF are collected and later analyzed for color, blood cell counts, protein, glucose, and other substances. A portion of the sample may be cultured to promote the growth of infectious organisms, such as bacteria or fungi, to check for infection of the CSF. The pressure of the CSF also is measured during the test.

For those of you following the Jollarian health sage: OW MY FUCKING SPINE AND HEAD. I hadda get some super migraine pills called in tonight. Thank god for tylenol/caffiene/barbiturate combos. Nothing ever hit the spot like those bastards.

Lumbar Puncture

CSPServer is a VC class which makes it relatively easy to create solid, multi-threaded client/server state-based protocol servers (SPS). Common existing standard client/server SPS systems are SMTP, POP3, FTP, NNTP and others systems which millions of people use every day on the internet.

CSPServer gives you a time-tested, well engineered framework to create your own standard protocol server or a new protocol server that suits your needs. CSPServer is used in Santronics Software's intranet hosting product, Wildcat! Interactive Net Server (http://www.santronics.com) to provide an integrated multiple protocol intranet hosting system. Proprietary virtual communications technology was removed to make a public socket-based only version of CSPServer.

This article will explain how to use the CSPServer class with working SPS examples. This is the author's first CodeProject article subsmission, so all commentators and critics are welcome.

A pretty good reference implentation of a simple state-based protocol server. Very readable C++.

CSPServer, State-based Protocol Server Class - The Code Project - Internet & Network