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Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Well Casios are better than TI calculators. My current favorite calculator is Casio ES-115 PLUS2 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... I like it because when you enter sin(pi/12) you get (sqrt(3)-1)/(2*sqrt(2)) in mathematical notation, which is really nice for a $16 calculator. Here I'm going to hurt TI: If you need a TI-84 or TI-89 for school, the place to get them cheap is shopgoodwill.co…

> Well Casios are better than TI calculators.

For scientific calculators, I would agree. For graphing calculators they might be better on technical merit or cost, but everyone is going to write programs for the TI so you might as well get that one.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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post #54

Well Casios are better than TI calculators. My current favorite calculator is Casio ES-115 PLUS2 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... I like it because when you enter sin(pi/12) you get (sqrt(3)-1)/(2*sqrt(2)) in mathematical notation, which is really nice for a $16 calculator. Here I'm going to hurt TI: If you need a TI-84 or TI-89 for school, the place to get them cheap is shopgoodwill.co…

Cleaned url: https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... Thank you so much for pointing out fx-115ES PLUS2! I looked for a good hour yesterday trying to find an alternative to the fx-115ES PLUS (first edition) with the same features, after Casio discontinued the original. I'm honestly embarrassed that I had overlooked this... I do absolutely agree that Casio calculators are just wholly better than…

I really don't understand why Casio keeps changing the entire design of their calculators, though.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#153

Last year I bought I used TI for my daughter who needed it for school. I got her the oldest version, the one which takes AAA batteries and communicates with the outside world through a serial link. A project like this brings to mind the possibility of stuffing a Raspberry Pi Zero in the battery compartment, hooking it up to the school WiFi, using a terminal app on the calculator to communicate with the Pi and in that…

I found it a lot of fun to interface with the TI calculators directly using the wonderful ArTICL Arduino library[0]. You can cobble together a link cable to imitate another calculator and hook it up to your microcontroller of choice.

I enjoyed making a QWERTY keyboard and news app over WiFi using the tiny ESP-01 (as, coincidentally, @shakna suggested in this thread).

0: https://github.com/KermMartian/ArTICL

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#154

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In case it completely dies there are archives now available: http://web.archive.org/web/20210712193555/http://fxip.as2034... https://archive.is/5a44i Or the whole thing is small enough to fit in a comment: > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: fxip.as203478.net > User-Agent: curl/7.76.1 > Accept: */* > * Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse * HTTP 1.0, assume close after body Casio fx-9750GII Webserver * { margin: 0; padding: 0…

*:focus { outline: none; } *::-moz-focus-inner { border: 0; } Wow, the equivalent of having a building with existing wheelchair ramps and ripping them out because they're "unsightly". I guess it's a valid decision decision, but pretty crappy for anyone who needs them.

is that to imply that focus outline is meant for accessibility purposes?

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#155

Notice: this is written in fairly nicely-written C, not ASM with demoscene level micro-optimizations, like you might expect. Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by writing code sensibly in a native language (and native libs/tools, of course).

C isn't in my mind close to the metal but potentially lets you be more sympathetic to the metal. Thanks for your drawing attention to this, I'm looking forward to reading.

Well, at the very least it's close in that it's native compiled (and not in a very abstracted way like JIT languages mostly are).

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Back in my day it was a Beowulf cluster running on hot grits serving Natalie Portman pictures

Oh man, Beowulf clusters, I forgot all about those. How come we never hear about them anymore?

Because now they're just clusters. Lots of people make hobby ones out of rpi's to tinker with

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#157
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In case it completely dies there are archives now available: http://web.archive.org/web/20210712193555/http://fxip.as2034... https://archive.is/5a44i Or the whole thing is small enough to fit in a comment: > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: fxip.as203478.net > User-Agent: curl/7.76.1 > Accept: */* > * Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse * HTTP 1.0, assume close after body Casio fx-9750GII Webserver * { margin: 0; padding: 0…

So most of the content (images, font) is hosted elsewhere ...

of course just like with most places using content providers :) . It would take forever (relatively)to pull those off the casio vs the html text for the page.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

#158

Well Casios are better than TI calculators. My current favorite calculator is Casio ES-115 PLUS2 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... I like it because when you enter sin(pi/12) you get (sqrt(3)-1)/(2*sqrt(2)) in mathematical notation, which is really nice for a $16 calculator. Here I'm going to hurt TI: If you need a TI-84 or TI-89 for school, the place to get them cheap is shopgoodwill.co…

TI is pretty clearly just coasting on being the one mandated by a lot of schools; there's no way you can justify them still costing like $100 and having the same capabilities as when I was in high school.

Oppositely here in Japan (where Casio locates), high school students usually don't use calculators on math/physics classes.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Oh, interesting -- I assumed you had to have a membership to the RIR directly (APNIC in my case, which would have been upwards of 1000AUD/month). Hmm... Thanks!

APNICs info seems to show AUD 1180/year, not per month? Includes one ASN, one /24 on v4 and a /48 on v6. It's still significant, but not crazy.

Oh, you're right. 1180AUD / year + 500AUD sign-up fee.. Still a bit expensive. If I had a business use case for it I'd be able to justify it, but it's too much for a hobby, unfortunately.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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post #137

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APNICs info seems to show AUD 1180/year, not per month? Includes one ASN, one /24 on v4 and a /48 on v6. It's still significant, but not crazy.

Oh, you're right. 1180AUD / year + 500AUD sign-up fee.. Still a bit expensive. If I had a business use case for it I'd be able to justify it, but it's too much for a hobby, unfortunately.

This actually doesn't seem that bad for a hobby (I'd be using this almost as a fee to help me learn more about networking).

Does APNIC give out ASes for hobbyist and experimental use?

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