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Drugs That May Cause Depression
The following drugs have been reported to cause depression in some patients. Elderly people are particularly at risk.
- Accutane: This drug treats severe acne.
- Alcohol
- Antabuse: This medicine is used to treat alcoholism.
- Anticonvulsants: Anticonvulsants are used to control epileptic seizures, examples include Celontin and Zarontin.
- Barbiturates: These are a group of central nervous system depressants that slow down brain function. These medicines have been used to treat anxiety and to prevent epileptic seizures. They are commonly abused; examples are phenobarbital and secobarbital.
- Benzodiazepines: This group of central nervous system depressants is often used to treat anxiety and insomnia and to relax muscles; examples include Ativan, Dalmane, Halcion, Klonopin, Librium, Valium, and Xanax.
- Beta-adrenergic blockers -- Also known as beta-blockers, these medicines are used in the treatment of various heart problems, including high blood pressure, heart failure, chest pain caused by angina, and certain abnormal heart rhythms. They may also be used to treat migraine headaches; examples include Lopressor, Tenormin and Coreg.
- Bromocriptine (Parlodel): This is a medicine used to treat Parkinson's disease.
- Calcium-channel blockers: This group of medicines slows the heart rate and relaxes blood vessels. Calcium channel blockers are used to treat high blood pressure, chest pain, congestive heart failure, and certain abnormal heart rhythms, examples include Calan, Cardizem, Tiazac, and Procardia.
- Estrogens: This class of female hormones is often used in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to treat menopause symptoms and to prevent or treat osteoporosis; examples include Premarin and Prempro.
- Fluoroquinolone antibiotics: Examples of these drugs include Cipro and Floxin.
- Interferon alfa: This drug is used to treat certain cancers as well as hepatitis B and C.
- Norplant: This is a medicine used for birth control.
- Opioids: This group of narcotics is used to relieve moderate to severe pain. These drugs have a high potential for abuse and addiction; examples include codeine, morphine, Demerol, Percodan, and OxyContin.
- Statins: These medicines are used to lower cholesterol, protect against damage from coronary artery disease, and prevent heart attacks; examples include Mevacor, Zocor, Pravachol, Lescol, and Lipitor.
- Zovirax: Doctors prescribe this drug to treat shingles and herpes.
Quick GuideDrug Abuse Pictures Slideshow: Commonly Abused Prescription and OTC Drugs
Report Problems to the Food and Drug Administration
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit the FDA MedWatch website or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Fourier Volume Rendering
Three years ago, I wrote a short post about volume rendering. I always meant to follow up, because I finally sorted out the problems with generating multiple, overlapping images. Here's a new video generated with the improved code:
Fourier volume rendering is less flexible than raytracing, but it does have certain computational advantages, most notably in that you can generate images in less than O(n^3) time, which is the typical bound for conventional raytracing. It also has some applications in light field refocusing applications. But overall, I still thing that raytracing has a number of advantages. Perhaps that would make a good first serious Go program? I'll ponder it more.
The Beaglebone: an $89 Time Machine…At the Maker Faire, I splurged for a little bit of computing hardware called the Beaglebone. It's an $89 ARM based computer that runs at 700Mhz, and includes a MicroSD card slot and Ethernet, as well as a USB connector. I wasn't sure what I was going to use it for, but I frankly can't resist cheap hunks of hardware, and unlike the Raspberry Pi (which frankly is more interesting, since it includes video, which the Beaglebone lacks) you can actually walk up to a counter (well, at the Maker Faire you can) and buy one. So I did. Because Tom bought one. And I wouldn't want to be left behind.
But what to do with it? Well, it boots Linux off the SD card, so I could do anything with it that I could do with a Linux machine. I've mused about my computing past before on this blog. So, I thought: "let's see if I can get simh installed on it, and simulate the PDP-10/DEC 1091 of my computing past.
It's frankly pretty trivial to do. It's got gcc and wget installed, so all you have to do is fetch the source and compile it. You might want to get the pcap library installed so you can do simulated networking, and the machine itself is pretty slow (I discovered that when it's powered from the USB, it runs at only 500Mhz, which seems really slow). But there is no trouble getting it installed. Then, all you need is some software to run on it.
In my previous excursion into the world of simh, I worked through installing TOPS-10 from scratch, but I didn't feel like stumbling through that process again, so I searched the web and found a prebuilt image suitable for use. I downloaded it, unpacked it, and ran pdp10, starting it just as documented.
And... I was again hurled back through time. BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN. 36 bit architecture. Craziness. Running on $89 worth of hardware, consuming 1W and the size of an Altoids tin.
I haven't benchmarked it, but I suspect that it runs several times as fast as the original machine. I configured it to allow one to telnet into the server to simulate serial connections. I'm sure with a little work, I could dust off the corner of my brain that held information about this stuff, and figure out how to get ADVENTURE running.
And then I thought to myself: what if I wanted to hook real serial terminals to it? A little investigation reveals that the Beaglebone has six hardware UARTs. One is dedicated for connection via USB, but four are wired to expansion pins. I dug a little more, and uncovered this awesome project: the DECbox. The author mounted a beaglebone inside of a vintage DEC VT100. He even talks about modifying the VT100 to have serial connectors on the back so you can hook in additional terminals. Since the Beaglebone can simulate a wide variety of DEC machines, you could have a PDP-8, PDP-10 or PDP-11 all inside the same space.
Very cool. I'll be keeping my eye out for a real VT100.
Addendum: in my spare time, I downloaded an image for the Gingerbread release of the Android OS. Because the Beaglebone doesn't have a display, you start a VNC server which serves as a virtual graphics device, and then connect to it via a VNC client like TightVNC (for Windows) or Chicken of the VNC (for Mac OS X). I did this more for curiousity than anything else: it's too slow to really be an adequate demo platform. But it might be of interest.
Addendum2. I was digging around to find power requirements for the board. It turns out that if you don't use the onboard USB, the current is supposed to be around 170ma, which makes the power less than 1W. But using the USB raises that a lot: the peak is almost 500ma during boot, which is about 2.5W. If you are concerned about power, ditch the USB as a power source.
Russ Cox muses about Fields and Reed-Solomon codes
I've been pretty interested in codes of all sort, both the cryptographic codes and the codes that are used to provide error detection and correction. While I've played around quite a bit with convolutional codes, I haven't really every bothered to develop more than a cursory understanding of the Reed-Solomon error correcting codes which have widely applied in many applications such as data storage (most notably for compact discs) and satellite data transmission. It's very cool technology.
Luckily, super smart guy Russ Cox has a very nice writeup on the theory and practice of Reed Solomon codes. Previously Russ had postings about fast regular expression matching which you might have read (or should have). I really like his postings: he has a very clear, pragmatic but not dumbed-down approach to both the theory and practice of programming. This series promises to go on in future postings, I'll be eagerly awaiting future installments.
A Tale of Two Gadgets: the TonidoPlug 2 and a Bus Pirate…
A few days ago, I mentioned that one of my servers had died. I spent some time thinking about how I would replace it. I like having a 24/7 hooked up to the Internet to serve as a file drop and a place where I can use SSH to connect to other devices on my home network, but the machine need not be hugely fast, and it would probably be better if it were fairly low power. My previous server drew about 30 watts, and I suspected that I could get something more compact and lower power to replace it.
So, I ordered a TonidoPlug 2. It's a cute little server based upon the Sheeva Plug computer concept, but includes space to insert a 2.5" SATA laptop drive. It has all sorts of "personal cloud" applications running on it, which I had no interest in, but doing a bit more research, I found that I could install ArchLinux on the internal hard drive, and it would boot to that automatically. Cool, think I. I ordered mine off Amazon.
It arrived yesterday. I powered it up, verified that it worked in its default configuration, then proceeded to follow the directions on the ArchLinux ARM page. Upon reboot... not good. I ended up with a flashing red LED, and the network never comes back up. So, I pulled the internal drive, and it reboots back to its default configuration.
I then start tracking through various support and Wiki links. I find that some people have had difficulty booting from the internal drives, and the Tonido support guys have been very coy, claiming that "we don't support that". Frown. Not good.
But in doing this research, I found that it was possible to access the boot loader and serial console. On the bottom side of the tonido is a nice little rubber cover, concealing 4 pins. Most people seem to make a small adapter to use an FTDI-serial adapter cable with it (the six pin ones like you would use for the Arduino), but I had a Bus Pirate sitting around, and I thought that it might work. And... it did!
In case anyone else (or me in the future) wants to know how to do this:
- The four pins are Vcc, Rx, Tx, and GND, starting from the power supply side and working toward the USB/Ethernet cable side.
- I just hooked up MOSI to RX, MISO to TX, and GND to GND
- To use the Bus Pirate with my Mac laptop, I like to use GNU screen. If you run "screen /dev/tty.usbserial-AH00MPIK 115200" (your tty device will likely be different), it makes a convenient terminal emulator. From there, you can access the Bus Pirate, configure it in UART mode with a baud rate of 115200 and sensible other defaults.
- You can then use the Bus Pirate as a UART bridge by invoking the "(1)" macro. You'll then essentially be talking directly to the Tonido via the BusPirate.
- Using screen's C-a H command, you can start a log file, which will record all the output from the serial port. Doing the command again will stop logging.
Hooking it up, I got lots of cool info from the Tonido:
__ __ _ _ | \/ | __ _ _ ____ _____| | | | |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | | | | | | (_| | | \ V / __/ | | |_| |_|\__,_|_| \_/ \___|_|_| _ _ ____ _ | | | | | __ ) ___ ___ | |_ | | | |___| _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __| | |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_ \___/ |____/ \___/ \___/ \__| ** MARVELL BOARD: DB-88F6282A-BP LE U-Boot 1.1.4 (Sep 13 2011 - 13:25:05) Marvell version: 3.4.27 USISH-SMB Ver: topkick1281p2-001-008-20110913-codelathe U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0 BSS: -> 006D0120 Soc: MV88F1155 Rev 1 (DDR2) CPU running @ 800Mhz L2 running @ 400Mhz SysClock = 400Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz DRAM unknown CAL tRP = 8 tRAS = 20 tRCD=8 DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000 size 512MB DRAM Total size 512MB 16bit width Addresses 8M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage. Mem malloc Initialization (8M - 7M): Done NAND:512 MB Flash: 0 kB CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1) Streaming disabled Write allocate disabled USB 0: host mode PEX 0: interface detected no Link. Net: egiga0 [PRIME] Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 (Re)start USB... USB: scanning bus for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found Waiting for storage device(s) to settle before scanning... 0 Storage Device(s) found ** Bad partition 1 ** ## Booting image at 00800000 ... Bad Magic Number Saving Environment to NAND... Erasing Nand...Writing to Nand... done Reset IDE: Marvell Serial ATA Adapter Integrated Sata device found [0 0 0]: Enable DMA mode (5) Device 0 @ 0 0: Model: TOSHIBA MK6465GSX Firm: GJ003M Ser#: 50OAC319T Type: Hard Disk Supports 48-bit addressing Capacity: 610480.3 MB = 596.1 GB (1250263728 x 512) ** Unable to read "/boot/uImage" from ide 0:1 ** ## Booting image at 00800000 ... Bad Magic Number Saving Environment to NAND... Erasing Nand...Writing to Nand... done NAND read: device 0 offset 0x200000, size 0x600000 6291456 bytes read: OK ## Booting image at 01200000 ... Image Name: Linux-22.214.171.124-topkick1281p2-001 Created: 2011-11-10 3:58:11 UTC Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 3121408 Bytes = 3 MB Load Address: 00008000 Entry Point: 00008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK OK Starting kernel ... Uncompressing Linux................................................................................................................................................................................................... done, booting the kernel. Linux version 126.96.36.199-topkick1281p2-001-004-20101214 (firstname.lastname@example.com) (gcc version 3.4.4 (release) (CodeSourcery ARM 2005q3-2)) #2 Thu Nov 10 11:58:07 CST 2011 CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977 CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache Machine: Feroceon-KW Using UBoot passing parameters structure Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048 Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200;version=topkick1281p2-001-006-20101103 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x180000@0(u-boot),0x20000@0x180000(u-boot-env),0x600000@0x200000(uImage),0x1f800000@0x800000(rootfs) ubi.mtd=3 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs rootdelay=10 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 512MB = 512MB total Memory: 513280KB available (5612K code, 319K data, 148K init, 0K highmem) NR_IRQS:128 Console: colour dummy device 80x30 Calibrating delay loop... 794.62 BogoMIPS (lpj=3973120) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok xor: measuring software checksum speed arm4regs : 723.200 MB/sec 8regs : 433.600 MB/sec 32regs : 600.800 MB/sec xor: using function: arm4regs (723.200 MB/sec) NET: Registered protocol family 16 Feroceon L2: Enabling L2 Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised. CPU Interface ------------- SDRAM_CS0 ....base 00000000, size 512MB SDRAM_CS1 ....disable SDRAM_CS2 ....disable SDRAM_CS3 ....disable PEX0_MEM ....base e8000000, size 128MB PEX0_IO ....base f2000000, size 1MB INTER_REGS ....base f1000000, size 1MB NFLASH_CS ....base fa000000, size 2MB SPI_CS ....base f4000000, size 16MB BOOT_ROM_CS ....no such DEV_BOOTCS ....no such CRYPT_ENG ....base f0000000, size 2MB Marvell Development Board (LSP Version KW_LSP_5.0.3)-- DB-88F6282A-BP Soc: MV88F1155 Rev 1 LE Detected Tclk 200000000 and SysClk 400000000 MV Buttons Device Load Marvell USB EHCI Host controller #0: df837740 PEX0 interface detected no Link. PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers enabled bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 SCSI subsystem initialized usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb raid6: int32x1 72 MB/s raid6: int32x2 101 MB/s raid6: int32x4 88 MB/s raid6: int32x8 80 MB/s raid6: using algorithm int32x2 (101 MB/s) cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 65536 bind 65536) TCP reno registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 rtc mv_rtc: rtc core: registered kw-rtc as rtc0 RTC registered cpufreq: Init kirkwood cpufreq driver XOR registered 4 channels XOR 2nd invalidate WA enabled mvCesaInit: sessions=640, queue=64, pSram=f0000000 Warning: TS unit is powered off. MV Buttons Driver Load JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. SGI XFS with security attributes, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled msgmni has been set to 1002 alg: No test for cipher_null (cipher_null-generic) alg: No test for ecb(cipher_null) (ecb-cipher_null) alg: No test for digest_null (digest_null-generic) alg: No test for compress_null (compress_null-generic) alg: No test for stdrng (krng) alg: No test for hmac(digest_null) (hmac(digest_null-generic)) async_tx: api initialized (sync-only) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A console [ttyS0] enabled Integrated Sata device found IRQ 21/mvSata: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs scsi0 : Marvell SCSI to SATA adapter scsi1 : Marvell SCSI to SATA adapter scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access TOSHIBA MK6465GSX GJ00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sector size 0 reported, assuming 512. sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1250263728 512-byte logical blocks: (640 GB/596 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 0-byte physical blocks sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Loading Marvell Ethernet Driver: o Cached descriptors in DRAM o DRAM SW cache-coherency o 2 Giga ports supported o Multi RX Queue support - 4 RX queues o Multi TX Queue support - 2 TX Queues o TCP segmentation offload (TSO) supported o Large Receive offload (LRO) supported o Receive checksum offload supported o Transmit checksum offload supported o Network Fast Processing (Routing) supported - (Disabled) o Network Fast Processing (NAT) supported o Driver ERROR statistics enabled o Driver INFO statistics enabled o Proc tool API enabled o SKB Reuse supported - (Disabled) o SKB Recycle supported - (Disabled) o Gateway support enabled o Using Marvell Header Mode o L2 IGMP support o Rx descripors: q0=128 q1=128 q2=128 q3=128 o Tx descripors: q0=532 q1=532 o Loading network interface(s): o register under mv88fx_eth platform sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sector size 0 reported, assuming 512. o eth0, ifindex = 2, GbE port = 0 Warning: Giga 1 is Powered Off Warning: Giga 1 is Powered Off mvFpRuleDb (df280000): 16384 entries, 65536 bytes Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.21-k3-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 1.0.2-k2 e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Intel Corporation. e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.24-k2-NAPI e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation sda: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 PPP Deflate Compression module registered PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP MPPE Compression module registered NET: Registered protocol family 24 PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V1.0 Using Hamming 1-bit ECC for NAND device NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xad, Chip ID: 0xdc (Hynix NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit) Scanning device for bad blocks Bad eraseblock 1064 at 0x000008500000 Bad eraseblock 1065 at 0x000008520000 Bad eraseblock 1884 at 0x00000eb80000 Bad eraseblock 1885 at 0x00000eba0000 Bad eraseblock 2038 at 0x00000fec0000 Bad eraseblock 2039 at 0x00000fee0000 Bad eraseblock 2580 at 0x000014280000 Bad eraseblock 2581 at 0x0000142a0000 Bad eraseblock 2606 at 0x0000145c0000 Bad eraseblock 2844 at 0x000016380000 Bad eraseblock 3269 at 0x0000198a0000 Bad eraseblock 3547 at 0x00001bb60000 4 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device nand_mtd Using command line partition definition Creating 4 MTD partitions on "nand_mtd": 0x000000000000-0x000000180000 : "u-boot" sda1 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sector size 0 reported, assuming 512. 0x000000180000-0x0000001a0000 : "u-boot-env" sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk 0x000000200000-0x000000800000 : "uImage" 0x000000800000-0x000020000000 : "rootfs" UBI: attaching mtd3 to ubi0 UBI: physical eraseblock size: 131072 bytes (128 KiB) UBI: logical eraseblock size: 129024 bytes UBI: smallest flash I/O unit: 2048 UBI: sub-page size: 512 UBI: VID header offset: 512 (aligned 512) UBI: data offset: 2048 UBI: attached mtd3 to ubi0 UBI: MTD device name: "rootfs" UBI: MTD device size: 504 MiB UBI: number of good PEBs: 4020 UBI: number of bad PEBs: 12 UBI: max. allowed volumes: 128 UBI: wear-leveling threshold: 4096 UBI: number of internal volumes: 1 UBI: number of user volumes: 1 UBI: available PEBs: 75 UBI: total number of reserved PEBs: 3945 UBI: number of PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 40 UBI: max/mean erase counter: 3/1 UBI: image sequence number: 0 ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver ehci_marvell ehci_marvell.70059: Marvell Orion EHCI ehci_marvell ehci_marvell.70059: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 UBI: background thread "ubi_bgt0d" started, PID 480 ehci_marvell ehci_marvell.70059: irq 19, io base 0xf1050100 ehci_marvell ehci_marvell.70059: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-datafab usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-freecom usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-jumpshot usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr09 usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr55 usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-usbat pwrctl: dev_t_NO. = 0xdd00000, major = 221 pwrctl: request the irq power off registered. mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice i2c /dev entries driver Linux telephony interface: v1.00 md: linear personality registered for level -1 md: raid0 personality registered for level 0 md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 md: raid6 personality registered for level 6 md: raid5 personality registered for level 5 md: raid4 personality registered for level 4 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.15.0-ioctl (2009-04-01) initialised: firstname.lastname@example.com sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman mmc0: mvsdio driver initialized, lacking card detect (fall back to polling) Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20. No device for DAI CS42L51 ALSA device list: No soundcards found. nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (8192 buckets, 32768 max) mvFpNatDb (df360000): 16384 entries, 65536 bytes ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 17 NFP (fdb) init 256 entries, 1024 bytes RPC: Registered udp transport module. RPC: Registered tcp transport module. 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <email@example.com> All bugs added by David S. Miller <firstname.lastname@example.com> rtc mv_rtc: setting system clock to 2012-03-31 01:20:22 UTC (1333156822) Waiting 10sec before mounting root device... mmc0: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001 md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "rootfs" UBIFS: file system size: 501387264 bytes (489636 KiB, 478 MiB, 3886 LEBs) UBIFS: journal size: 25159680 bytes (24570 KiB, 23 MiB, 195 LEBs) UBIFS: media format: w4/r0 (latest is w4/r0) UBIFS: default compressor: lzo UBIFS: reserved for root: 4952683 bytes (4836 KiB) VFS: Mounted root (ubifs filesystem) on device 0:11. Freeing init memory: 148K Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S. Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd. Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done. Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...done. Setting parameters of disc: (none). Activating swap...done. Starting early crypto disks...done. Starting remaining crypto disks...done. Loading kernel modules...done. Cleaning up ifupdown.... Setting up networking.... Activating lvm and md swap...done. Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 done. Mounting local filesystems...done. Activating swapfile swap...done. Cleaning up temporary files.... Setting kernel variables ...done. Configuring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1 Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ eth0: started Listening on LPF/eth0/40:2c:f4:bc:8b:c9 Sending on LPF/eth0/40:2c:f4:bc:8b:c9 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. done. Cleaning up temporary files.... fuse init (API version 7.12) Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 2. Network Interface Plugging Daemon...start eth0...done. Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd. Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbdStarting periodic command scheduler: cron. . Starting system message bus: dbus. Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd. EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 TonidoPlug2 ttyS0 TonidoPlug2 login: --2012-03-30 18:21:50-- http://patch.codelathe.com/firmware/tonidoplug2/updates.list Resolving patch.codelathe.com... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address "patch.codelathe.com" Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 TonidoPlug2 ttyS0 TonidoPlug2 login: root Password: Last login: Fri Mar 30 18:16:16 PDT 2012 on ttyS0 Linux TonidoPlug2 18.104.22.168-topkick1281p2-001-004-20101214 #2 Thu Nov 10 11:58:07 CST 2011 armv5tel The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. root@TonidoPlug2:~#
I suspect I'll be able to debug it a lot better tomorrow.
The Little Engine that Could…
In my home office, I have a machine called "fishtank". I realized that I first bought it back in 2002, and since then it has been running various flavors of FreeBSD (probably beginning around 4.6 or so, currently running 7.2). At various times I've added or upgraded disk drives to it. While a power failure just two weeks ago reset it's uptime, it's had uptimes in excess of six hundred days on at least two occasions. I use it as an ssh server, file repository, and generally just a net accessible resource for generic computing tasks.
But the other day, I wanted to generate some new maps for my website using some code that I had never tried before, the Matplotlib Basemap Toolkit. There were already port files in FreeBSD, so I thought I'd try it out. So, I set it running with portmaster, and walked away.
The build failed.
Digging in, I found that it failed while building gcc (why it needed to build a new version of gcc I'm not sure, but it thinks it did). And it turns out it just flat ran out of memory.
I asked the quite natural question, "how much memory does this thing have?"
The answer: 256 megabytes. With less than 500 megabytes of swap.
I think it's time to consider an upgrade. I could put 1G of memory in it, but that seems pretty lame. I think I'll replace it with a small mini-desktop. I'm looking for an inexpensive, relatively low power and most importantly quiet server box. Anyone have any recommendations?
Arduino Basic
Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and winner of the 1972 Turing Award wrote:
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
While I have respect for his great contributions to the field, in my opinion, this claim falls a bit far afield. In particular, nearly everyone who learned about computers in my generation seemed to through the path of BASIC. BASIC was the lingua franca of the microcomputer revolution, and while I now see it as rather quaint and ridiculous, it provided a step into computing for many people who found that they could indeed regenerate their brain cells in spite of their early exposure.
But does BASIC have any place in the modern world? Well, I must admit, the answer might be "maybe". Little microcontrollers like the BASIC Stamp have been overshadowed a bit by the Arduino, but I still think that having an interactive interpreter that you can use to access a small computer makes some sense. Having a small language like Tiny BASIC, augmented by a few small additions to (say) allow you to generate sounds or control I/O pins makes a great deal of sense. Thus, without further justification, take a look at this project:
The code looks pretty nice and tidy, and should be easy to extend. It allows programs of up to 1.4K to be loaded into RAM, which sounds like a trivial amount, but it's certainly enough to blink some leds, read and write some serial data, and generally exercise some of the capabilities of the chip. Neat project!
Microcontroller cheat sheet
I needed to know the pinouts for various AVR chips and the 6 pin ICSP cable they used. I found this cool little one page sheet that had that, and more. Saved for future reference:
More Wisdom on LEDs…
More important help for the budding young electronics designer:
Note: this also works in computer graphics quite well. Just specify a negative intensity for the light value.
Making some wallpaper with the sum of cosines…
I was inspired by some Haskell code written by keegan, so I had to write a version of it in C. I didn't do any animation, but I did have a lot of fun playing around with the parameters. For instance, check out the code, and how changing the value of N from 5, 7, and 19 generates interesting and cool patterns.
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> #include <assert.h> /* * quasi.c * * Some code, inspired by keegan @ * http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com/2011/10/quasicrystals-as-sums-of-waves-in-plane.html * but presented without any further explanation. */ #define N (19) #define XSIZE (1280) #define YSIZE (720) #define SCALE (0.2) double x[N], y[N], ph[N] ; double image[YSIZE][XSIZE] ; int main() { int i, j, k ; for (i=0; i<N; i++) { x[i] = cos(2.0 * M_PI * i / (double) N) ; y[i] = sin(2.0 * M_PI * i / (double) N) ; ph[i] = 0.0 ; } for (j=0; j<YSIZE; j++) { for (i=0; i<XSIZE; i++) { image[j][i] = 0. ; for (k=0; k<N; k++) { double d = (x[k] * (i - XSIZE / 2.) + y[k] * (j - YSIZE / 2.) + ph[k]) * SCALE ; image[j][i] += (1.0 + cos(d)) / 2. ; } int t = (int) floor(image[j][i]) ; assert(t >= 0.) ; double v = image[j][i] - t ; if (t % 2 == 1) v = 1. - v ; image[j][i] = v ; } } printf("P5\n%d %d\n%d\n", XSIZE, YSIZE, 255) ; for (j=0; j<YSIZE; j++) for (i=0; i<XSIZE; i++) putchar(255. * image[j][i]) ; return 0 ; }
Cool stuff!
Can we go beyond WSPR? An idea for beacon operations on amateur radio.
I was interested in WSPR and visual MEPT oeprations for quite some time. I operated both a beacon and a QRSS aggregator on 30m for a while, but I grew a bit tired of it, and it's been silent for a year or so. But I haven't stopped thinking about them. In fact, I've had an idea percolating in the back of my head since last year, when I became aware of the work of Leemon Baird and William Bahn on Jam Resistant codes.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Here are some of what I think could be improved with WSPR:
- WSPR requires accurate clocks both for receiving and transmitting. To be successfully decoded, transmissions must start within a window just a few seconds long surrounding even numbered minutes. This makes both sending and receiving systems complicated: they probably need to access an external reference (NTP, GPS or WWV) to operate reliably over an extended period.
- Fixed frequency operation can cause collisions. Each transmitter selects a fixed transmit frequency, and relies on multiplexing over time to avoid collisions. WSPR software itself provides no real help in selection of an appropriate free frequency.
- The choice of a convolutional code is somewhat odd. The payload is only 50 bits long, but we pad the results with 31 zeros to flush out the convolutional coder. Thus, we are actually getting the error correction of a rate 1/2 code, but we are only sending as much data as if we were sending a rate 1/3 code.
I had been pondering some of these issues, when I became aware of the work of Baird and Bahn. They are researchers for the Air Force Academy, and were particularly studying the problem of providing jam proof communications without the need for shared secrets. Briefly, you can imagine using spread spectrum to provide a measure of jam proofing: because the data is spread out among many frequencies over time, the spread spectrum signal has a good measure of jam proofing: the jammer needs to put energy over most of the frequency most of the time, where as the transmitter can put his full power on just one frequency at a time (other variants of spread spectrum are a bit different, but the principle holds). The only way a jammer can work efficiently is by knowing the sequence, which is usually a cryptographic secret.
This is where Baird, Bahn, and Collins' work comes in: In their paper:
Baird, Leemon C. III, Bahn, William L. & Collins, Michael D. (2007) Jam-Resistant Communication Without Shared Secrets Through the Use of Concurrent Codes, Technical Report, U. S. Air Force Academy, USAFA-TR-2007-01, Feb 14.
they show a simple technique that can be used to transmit signals with high reliability and a high degree of jam resistance, without requiring any kind of shared secret or cryptography.
The idea is somewhat subtle, but reasonably straightforward. The idea is to create take the binary message (say, the same 50 bits that we use for WSPR). This message gets padded by a series of zeros (maybe lots of them, perhaps a multiple of the original message length). You then need a hash function (some details matter, but you can think of using a standard one like MD5 or one of the SHA variants if you like). Now, for each prefix of the message (bit streams of length one, then two, then three, and so on), you compute the hash of that prefix. Let's say that you are going to transmit the message by sending short, powerful bursts of energy at particular times in particular window. (You can imagine this being the two minute window used to transmit WSPR to make it more practical). If we divide that into (say) 8192 slots, then we could take each hash, take the lower 13 bits, and use that to specify a particular time when that bit would get turned on. If we send 500 bits total (9 zero checksum bits) for every real one, we are sending about 500/8192 slots, or about 6% of the total. To mark the start and stop, let's turn on the first and last bit. That's pretty much the entire transmit side.
What's cool is that you can decode the message on the remote side, and if you ignore efficiency, it isn't even that hard. Let's say that you located a stretch of bits 8190 long, between two on bits. That might be a message. So, how do you decode it? Well, the first bit might be a zero or a one. You basically pretend that you are transmitting, and encode both messages. That will return a location, which you check to see is on. If it isn't, then you know that guess was wrong. If it is, then that hypothesis is good. It's possible that none could be right. That means there is probably not a message in that span. It's possible that one could be right, in which case you then add a zero, and then try adding an one, and seeing if the hypothesis still holds. There are times when both results will check out, but statistically it is unlikely. When you hit the "checksum bits", you know that there is only one possibility: a zero. If the specified hash doesn't yield a location that is turned on, you know that you are on the wrong track. (The overall algorithm reminds me somewhat of a Viterbi style decoder, although it is actually considerably simpler).
There are lots of details to make this efficient (you want a hash function which allows incremental updates as you add individual bits to the message) but it's pretty straightforward.
Anyway, I think this could be the basis for a new highly-collision resistant beaconing protocol for amateur radio. It would enable very simple transmitters (a simple microcontroller could hold the sequence in internal EEPROM, no need for highly accurate clocks) and the system would be more highly jam resistant than the current system. We could use simple CW transmissions, or adapt to slower rates with more diverse frequency usage. And, the technology has been paid for by your tax dollars, so no pesky patent/IP issues would seem to apply.
What do people think? I'm interested in hearing some feedback from digitally minded radio amateurs.
Addendum: if my descriptionw as insufficient, try reading the papers (especially Visually Understanding Jam Resistant Communication) and/or posting some questions in the comments.
Sprites mods – CP/M on an AVR
I've always been fascinated by emulation and virtual machines, as well as retro-computing: resurrecting the old machines of my past. I never owned an old CP/M machine, but there are still some neat projects where people construct there own, and simulators like SIMH and YAZE-AG are good software simulators. But what I always wondered was whether a small microcontroller like an Atmel AVR could simulate an 8080 or Z80 fast enough to simulate these older machines.
And of course, today I found a link to someone who did just that. With a remarkably simple chunk of hardware. One AVR, a dynamic RAM, and an SD card to serve as a mass storage device. The combination is good enough to run Zork. I'm suitably impressed. The design and code are all GPL.
Donald Michie, Alan Turing, Martin Gardner, and Tic Tac Toe
As anyone who reads my blog with any regularity will tell you, I like to read and learn new things. The problem with being self taught and also easily distracted means that you often learn a great deal, but don't always perceive the connections and scope of what you are learning. I found another example today while surfing.
Years ago, I remember reading one of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns (from March, 1962, in case you want to look it up) where he described an interesting machine for playing tic-tac-toe. It was made entirely out of matchboxes, each one of which had a tic tac toe position on the top. Inside was a collection of colored beads. Each color specified a possible legal move for the position on top. The idea was that you'd play a game by drawing these beads from the appropriate box, and making the appropriate move. At the end of the game, you'd remove the bead from the last box that sent you along the losing path. Eventually, all the losing moves get removed, and the machine plays perfect tic-tac-toe. Gardner showed how this same idea could be used to create a matchbox computer to play hexapawn, a simple game played with six pawns on a 3x3 board.
I really haven't given it much thought since then. Many of you have probably read this article in one of the collections of Gardner's columns.
But today, I was surfing through links and reread some of the details. I found that the machine was called MENACE (Matchbox Educable Naughts and Crosses Engine) and was invented in 1960 by a gentleman named Donald Michie. And it turns out that he's a pretty interesting guy.
He was a colleague and friend of Alan Turing, and worked with him at Bletchley Park. Apparently Michie, Turing and Jack Good were all involved in the British code breaking efforts, and in the creation of Collosus, the first digital programmable computer which was used to crack the German "Tunny" teleprinter code. (Good and Michie were apparently two of the authors of the General Report on Tunny, a report on the cracking of the code which has only in recent years become declassified). None of this work could have been known by Martin Gardner at the time of this publication. Of course, this was also true of Turing's work as well.
Turing made a huge impact in several related disciplines: in mathematical logic and computation, in his wartime efforts in code breaking, and in his role in creating some of the first digital computers. Turing also became interested in mathematics in biology, writing about the chemical foundations of morphogenesis and predicting oscillatory chemical reactions. Michie received a doctorate in biology from Oxford, but returned to have a profound and lasting influence on artificial intelligence. Oh, and that modest little paper on Tic Tac Toe? One of the first instances of reinforcement learning.
Very cool, to discover that the little bit of reading you did as a teen, which seemed like an insignificant game at the time, actually has profound threads which stretch out into lots of different areas.
Donald Michie's Home Page
Trial and Error, the paper describing MENACE
My trip down memory lane leads me back to TOPS-10 and the PDP-10
I'm going to be nostalgic for a few moments. If you are too young to have any sense of nostalgia, skip ahead to the bold text below. You were warned!
A few days ago, I mentioned that I was having a bit of flashback, thinking of my first experience with time sharing computers back in the early 1980s. I was a child of the microcomputer revolution: I remember reading the articles on the Altaire and the COSMAC ELF in Popular Electronics (I was a precocious 12 year old at the time) and would eventually buy my first computer (an Atari 400) in 1980. By 1982, I was attending the University of Oregon and got my first exposure to "big" timesharing computers: their DEC 1091 (running TOPS10) and their IBM 4341.
I must admit, I wasn't all that impressed at the time. I did take FORTRAN and COBOL classes though. I actually did JCL and punch cards on the IBM. I worked in the documents room at the Computing Center for a while, and I recall that I made some small modification to their software (in FORTRAN on the DEC) that kept track of check ins and check outs. It may have been the first time I was ever paid to program.
My recollection is that by late in my second year, I was obsessed with the idea of getting an account on one of the three VAX 11/750s in the computer science department, all of which ran BSD. To do that, I needed to start taking graduate level classes. So, I applied for them. I recall sitting in Professor Ginnie Lo's compiler class on the first day. She asked me if I was a graduate student, and I replied "no". She then asked me if she had given me permission to take her course. I replied (somewhat nervously, as I recall) "no". To her credit, she allowed me to stay.
I digress.
Anyway, after getting accounts on one of the department's Unix machines (and having access to another via my job in the Chemistry department) I found little reason to continue using the DEC 1091. I doubt that I used it more than a couple of times after 1985.
Which, in retrospect, is kind of too bad. The 36-bit DEC architectures were a significant part of computing history. The PDP-10 had a pretty nice architecture, with an interesting, symmetric instruction set. I didn't have any appreciation of it back then, but with the wisdom granted by experience (and no doubt a certain amount of nostalgia) I find that it is actually pretty interesting.
So... I embarked on a mini-project to recreate the environment that I dimly remember.
Luckily, you don't need a physical PDP10: there are emulators that do an excellent job of recreating a virtual PDP-10 for you to program. I am using the simh emulator which is actually a suite of programs for a wide variety of early machines. The latest version of TOPS-10 was 7.04, but in experimenting with it, I found that I had difficulty making their simulated "printer" device work properly. Besides, v7.04 was actually a bit later than when I used the DEC. So, I've instead gotten version 7.03 up and running (which dates to around 1986).
Using the online documentation from various sources, I got the installation tapes up and running, and created a simulated system with a single RP06 disk drive. The printer is emulated just as a text file: I was thinking of creating a gadget to store them in individual files which we could view from a web page. I don't recall anything of our networking with the 1091 (I suspect we had DECNET at the time) but TOPS-10 didn't support TCP/IP anyway, so networking wasn't a priority. I've installed BASIC and FORTRAN, as well as the TOPS-10 KERMIT tape. Of course you can program with MACRO-10 as well. I've got their DECMAIL system installed, but it has difficulty working without DECNET installed, and seems to require a patch. I'll try to get that working shortly.
Eventually, I'll get some games like ADVENT online. I created a single user account, but don't remember some of the finesse points of creating project defaults and SWITCH.INI files. I also seem to have forgotten the logic behind SETSRC and the like, but it will come to me. I never was a TOPS-10 operator, so most of the systems level stuff is new to me (but luckily fairly well documented). For now, I can login, run BASIC programs, edit, compile and run FORTRAN and simple MACRO-10 programs, and... well... logout.
Okay, why do this?
I'm not actually one of those guys who is overly nostalgic. I stare at my iPhone, and I am amazed. I don't want to trade it for a PDP-10. But I also think that the history of technology is fascinating, and through emulation, we can gain insight into the evolution of our modern computers by actually playing with the machines of the past.
Here's one obvious insight: this was a time sharing operating system. It seems in many ways the bulk of the system was actually designed to do accounting on the amount of various things that you did. There is all sorts of mechanism for tracking how much CPU you used, how many disk reads and writes, how many cards you punched, and how many pages of line printer output you sent. There was a well defined batch queueing system, so that you could use every bit of available CPU to maximum efficiency. It imagined that there would always be a trained operator on duty to service the machine. In that sense, it is completely the opposite of what we saw developing from the personal computer world: when CPUs became cheap enough, it was obvious that you'd just have one, which you could do as you see fit. If it sat idle, well, it was your computer. But those early personal operating systems didn't really have any support for multiprocessing or memory protection. It took quite some time for that to trickle into the personal computing world.
It's also interesting to compare it to an operating system like ITS (which you can also run in emulation), which was developed in a purely academic environment. All of the accounting stuff I mentioned above are completely absent in ITS: the ITS system was designed to basically present a virtual PDP-10 to everyone who was connected to it. There was very little to protect you from mistakes that either you or someone else could make. The command interface was just DDT: the PDP-10 machine language debugger. ITS was an important step in the evolution of computer operating systems.
You can learn about these things by reading books about them, but playing with them will undoubtedly give you some insights that you can't get by books alone.
Is anyone else interested in this stuff? I'm considering making a virtual PDP-10 available to the public for mucking around with, and maybe even typing up some short notes on how to do common tasks. I'll probably also try to get a version of ITS running in the same way.
I've thought about maybe trying to scrounge some old VT100s (maybe four of them), wire them up to a modern small computer running simh, and creating a virtual system that you could bring to appropriate conferences like the Maker Faire. Kind of a "Computing Time Machine".
I'll think about it some more. If anyone else has similar interests (or could mentor me on the ways of 36 bit computers), drop me an email or leave me a comment below.
Magnetic core memory reborn… on an Arduino????
I may have mentioned before, I'm kind of old. One measure of how old I am is the fact that I've actually programmed machines that used core memory. Real core memory. Little ferrite donuts on arrays of wires.
Some time ago, I remember running across this awesome blog post from "Wayne's Tinkering Page" which showed some experimentation in creating a driver for some surplus 1mm ferrite memory cores, effectively creating a single bit memory. I thought that was pretty darned cool. But what's even more amazing is what Ben North and Oliver Nash have done: create a 32 bit core memory shield for an Arduino.
Links to the report and board plans, bill of materials and software
And they have an excellent report on the project, which includes a reference to a different core memory technique which employed non-destructive reads.
Very cool.

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We are looking to travel to Buenas Aries, Iguazzu Falls, Ushuala, El Calafate
Saw tour company Buenas Aires-Tours ititerary. Anyone use them? Looking for references or any suggestiions.
We want to start in Buenas Aires, Iguazzu falls, pengguuins and Icebergs.
Is this the best trip?
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We are looking to travel to Buenas Aries, Iguazzu Falls, Ushuala, El Calafate
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Well, it also depends when are you planning your trip.
Between May/June you will have moderate temperatures, low precipitation but with the greenery and water flow at a peak from the rainy season which ends around April time.
Buenos Aires is a year round destination with rainfall fairly light and steady throughout the year.
In Iguassu, the falls are spectacular at any time of the year. It is cooler and drier from May to September. August being the clearest and driest month but if you want the most water then rainfall is at its highest in April and December so May and January will see the biggest flows of water.
Concerning Patagonia and its marvelous wildlife, the ideal time for this holiday is October to catch the whales and Elephant seals on the Valdes Peninsula as well as reasonable weather further south. If you travel in February or March, the weather in the far south will be (in theory) at its best and you will hit the best time of year for Killer Whales in Valdes. The proximity of the Andes mean that it quickly gets cold at night. Be prepared for rainfall.
To see penguins you will need to go in southern Patagonia. Stella Australis is one of the best way to discover stunning glaciers and come across colonies of penguins but also sea lions, elephant seals, cormorans and southern dolphins.
Aside from that, I would suggest you to discover Salta. Ask an Argentinian where to visit in their country and the most common answer is: Salta! Largely undiscovered by tourists, it's a stunning region. You can visit it year round. Winter runs from May through September - this is the driest time of year.
The provinces of Salta and Jujuy were the first areas to be colonised by the Spanish as they came down from Bolivia, but the indigenous cultures of the region are still very much alive today. In fact, Salta is a world away from the more European city of Buenos Aires. In the northwest of Argentina you really know that you are in South America: the welcoming locals, the pretty village churches, the grand colonial city architecture and the mystical pre-Inca ruins all leave you in no doubt!
However, it is the scenery of this remarkable region that is the real star of the show. Expect beautiful and varied landscapes, from the vineyards of Cafayate to the lunar landscapes of the Purmamarca salt flats.
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It is very easy to travel in Argentina by plane and bus. You don't need a tour, you need some good guidebooks.
What country do you live in? That will affect the answer to your question about insurance.
Please stop shouting (lose the caps).
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Thanks for info. We are looking to traveling in eaely to mid February. We thought a tour would be best since we are limited in time (2 weeks max) to travel by plane and road.
Any help is appreciated.
We live in Florida .
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Then for insurance see insuremytrip.com. But first check to see whether your medical insurance will cover you abroad. If so, you will still need evacuation/repatriation insurance. Your choice whether you get cancellation insurance - I never bother.
Only you can decide what you want to see - start with the picture guidebooks - Insight, DK, See It etc. You can fly from BA to Iguassu and on to either Valdez Peninsula or Patagonia. You can travel in Patagonia by bus.
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Comfort Inn & Suites Convention Center
7495 Canada Avenue, FL 32819 Orlando Show map
The Comfort Inn & Suites Universal - Convention Center in Orlando, Florida is near several popular attractions, including Universal Studios and SeaWorld. This Orlando, FL hotel also offers easy access to Disney World and Epcot Center, and is 2 miles from Orlando International Premium Outlets.
Guests of this hotel will appreciate the interior corridors for easy and safe room access. The outdoor pool is a great place to relax, and guest laundry service is always available. Business travelers will want to use the on-site business center with copy and fax services.
Other amenities available at this non-smoking hotel include free wireless high-speed Internet access and free weekday newspapers.
Your Morning Breakfast is full of hot and delicious options, making breakfast at the Comfort Inn & Suites Universal - Convention Center the perfect way to start your day. Enjoy a free hot breakfast featuring eggs, meat, yogurt, fresh fruit, cereal and more, including your choice of hot waffle flavors!
All guest rooms include a flat-screen TV with cable, desk, microwave, refrigerator, coffee maker, hairdryer, iron and ironing board. Some rooms feature a sofa sleeper.
Rooms: 200
Hotel Chain: Comfort Inn
When would you like to stay?
Facilities of Comfort Inn & Suites Convention Center
- WiFi Available in All Areas
Food & Drink
- Snack Bar
- Vending Machine (drinks)
- Vending Machine (snacks)
Pool and Spa
- Fitness Center
- Outdoor Pool (all year)
- Shuttle Service (free)
Front Desk Services
- 24-Hour Front Desk
- Newspapers
- Express Check-in/Check-out
- Safe
- Ticket Service
- Baggage Storage
- ATM on site
- Concierge Service
Cleaning Services
- Laundry
- Dry Cleaning
- Daily Housekeeping
Business Facilities
- Meeting/Banquet Facilities
- Business Center
- Fax/Photocopying
- Convenience Store (on site)
- Non-smoking Rooms
- Facilities for Disabled Guests
- Family Rooms
- Elevator
- Heating
- All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)
- Air Conditioning
- Designated Smoking Area
WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge.
Free public parking is available on site (reservation is not needed).
Policies of Comfort Inn & Suites Convention Center
These are general hotel policies for Comfort Inn & Suites Convention Center. As they may vary per room type, please also check the room conditions.
From 15:00 hours
Until 11:00 hours
Children and Extra Beds
There is no capacity for extra beds in the room.
Pets are not allowed.
Accepted credit cards
- American Express
- Visa
- Euro/Mastercard
- Diners Club
- Discover
- Carte Blanche
The hotel reserves the right to pre-authorize credit cards prior to arrival.
Important Information
You must show a valid photo ID and credit card upon check-in.
Guests must be 18 years of age or older to check in with a major credit card and without a parent or official guardian.
Guests must be 21 years of age or older to check in with a debit card or cash and without a parent or official guardian.


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