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On Monday 08 July 2002 14:37, you wrote:
Adrian Midgley wrote:http://freshmeat.net/projects/kpumpe/?topic_id=266%2C252 4% of penguinistas are diabeticIs this some Linux research project, or are you just guessing based on the population as a whole?
Population as a whole.
I suspect the Twinkie bars, the canned drinks, caffeine, and the long periods of physical inactivity could set them up for being above average ;)
But their average age is less than the average age of the population as a whole. BUt yes, it may be there is a variation in incidence of some diseases in programmers etc.
Hmm, the glucomodul project by the same author includes a reference driver, this is the full driver methods and structure files, just needing to be fleshed out with details specific to a known meter. Assuming the meters don't vary hugely in functionality(?) I'd think any Linux hardware hacker could knock out a new module fairly quickly if they have the hardware documentation based on the template, and a meter to play with.
That is rather what I hoped to hear.
Looks to be just getting started, the original author did his own meter. So the lack of meter drivers is probably down to how many people have heard of it, versus how many meters are in widespread use.
I think this is a useful thing to get out into more general use. I wonder if people could be worried by some FUD about computer viruses potentially injected into Windows by connection to glucose meters. Hmm, come to think of it its a realistic possibility, albeit an unlikely one to have been exploited yet. I wonder if the buffers for the Windows versions of the PC software are checked against overruns from a device that is plugged in and speaks their protocol to them with a malign accent? Since they are all closed source, who'd know? Whereas (he rehearses in paranoid fashion) an open source program ould be seen to have protections against buffer overruns and other exploits and thus is in principle assurable against attack. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.