On Monday 28 January 2002 03:07 pm, you wrote:
Anyone play with these things (and associated Perl/php tools)? I just got 4 of 'em from a local Radio Shack for free. My coworkers and I are about to attempt to setup a backup tape tracking system with them. I was wondering if anyone had any comments on them.
-Adam
I played with mine briefly. It seemed to be OK considering that it was free. If I recall correctly, there is a GNU program for creating your own barcodes, and several of those were readable by the cue cat. I found physically larger bar codes easier for the cue cat to read, but again, your mileage may vary. Mine did seem a little sensitive to the speed of swiping the barcode. I suspect that if the cue cats were hung too low on the christmas tree, that the real cats would bat them around with their paws and break them. :-) Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org