Re: Speaker twiddling [was: Re: Panicking in morse code]

[Ray Friess <rayfri@networld.com>]

will someone turn off the damn server or something...  I've gotten this same
message 40 times already....



Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > > I don't understand the direction this discussion is taking.
> > >
> > > Either you are trying to output the panic information with minimal
> > > hardware, and in a form a human might be able to decode, in which case
> > > the Morse option seems to me to be the best, or you are trying to
> > > panic in a machine readable format - in which case just dump the data
> > > out /dev/ttyS0 and be done with it!
> > >
> > > To my way of thinking, the idea of the Morse option is that if an oops
> > >
> > > happens when you are not expecting it, and you haven't set up any
> > > equipment to help you, you still have a shot at getting the data.
> >
> >
> > To my way of thinking, this is still 'minimal' -- it's just a different
> > minimum.
> >
> > It's the 'minimum' way to get the panic message out digitally, in such
> > a way that I might be able to recover it using a tape recorder or a
> > telephone. Actually, morse is probably that, but morse loses data and
> > doesn't have any redundancy.
>
> You don't need redundancy. You should just repeat message over and over
> and over and over and....
>
> If you don't want morse to loose data, invent new codes for different
> parenthesis etc.
>                                                                 Pavel
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