Re: flash drives for mobile Linux & stuff

[Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>]

Brian Lloyd writes:

 > Well, they don't come with anything since you have to build the system
 > yourself.  If you are looking for a wearable based on COTS components, see

Of course, that the cheapest way to do it!
 
 > Well, which is more important to you, magnetic heading or magnetic course
 > (track)?  If you are going somewhere, course is probably more useful and it
 > comes out of your GPS so you don't need to mess about with flux gates.
 
I know, but unless you use DGPS it's unreliable at low velocities. At
least when you're rolling or standing still you'd see the map rotate 
unmotivatedly, which is annoying.
 
 
 > to collect the terrain info yourself.  There is already enough work to do.
 > No need to create more.
 
That's why I said it was wacko. You can purchase satellite maps with
really decent resolution as well.
 
 > BTW, does anyone know of any reasonable speech recognition software that

I could mention ears, but you said 'reasonable' ;) Speech synthesis
solutions are very well done, though.

 > runs on Linux?  I don't think that a keyboard will be too useful in the
 > cockpit.

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