Automatix
Automatix Inc., founded in January 1980, was the first company to market industrial robots with built-in machine vision. Its founders were Victor Scheinman, inventor of the Stanford arm; Phillippe Villers, Michael Cronin, and Arnold Reinhold of Computervision; Jake Dias and Dan Nigro of Data General; Gordon VanderBrug, of NBS, Donald L. Pieper of General Electric and Norman Wittels of Clark University.
Products
Initial product offerings included the Autovision machine vision system, the Robovision welding robot and the Cybervision electronic parts assembly system. Automatix was one of the first users of Motorola 68000 microprocessors, but because almost no software existed for the 68000 in 1980, Automatix had to develop its own operating system and a robotics scripting language, called "RAIL". Its initial machine vision offering was based on software and hardware licensed from Stanford Research Institute. In the late 1980s, Automatix replaced the proprietary 68000 computer in its vision products with an Apple Macintosh II.
Automatix (software)
Automatix is a tool designed to automate the addition of applications, codecs, fonts and libraries not provided directly by the software repositories of Debian-based distributions (specifically Debian, MEPIS and Ubuntu).
These distributions do not include certain packages or configuration settings that allow the playing of DVDs or MP3 files or the viewing of Adobe Flash content, for example. Packages that allow the playing of MP3s are available to download from official sources but cannot be included on the CD. Packages to enable the playing of DVDs include the libdvdcss algorithm. Although adding these manually is possible, it can be time consuming. This is a particular problem for distributions aimed at simplifying the desktop Linux experience.
Design
Automatix allows the menu-driven installation of 56 different "capabilities", including commercial closed source programs such as the Flash plugin, Acrobat Reader, multimedia codecs (DivX, MP3, Windows Media Audio) and fonts, and programming compilers.
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Sounds Of 77'
by: AutomatixSOUNDS OF 77
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in the golden years of punk rock
when the adverts played in my town
there was a Peel Session on the BBC
Radio 1 you could hear the sounds
there was the DAMNED-new rose
and BuZzcocks and Stiff little Fingers too !
there was the PISTOLS , the CLASH and
the Vibrators ... we knew just wot to do ....
So I bought a cheap guitar some Drums n’ a Bass
called the Chelsea boys to the Brixton Ace
we went down to the club just to drink some ale
we cause so much panic then woke up in Jail
and all across the London Town
theres a Chronic generation Goin’ round
Safety Pins n’ Razorblades... Black leather jackets
and Cool new shades
ya won’t change our minds
no you won’t change our hearts
never take advice from a boring old tart
Punk rock is the Only way in 77’
is the way it will stay
well the sounds of 77
are running in my veins
rock n roll is my drug of choice
there ain’t nothing that’s gunna change
c’mon
Well the sounds of 77
are runnin’ in my veins Cmon
rock n roll is my drug of choice
there ain’t nothing that’s gunna change
were Rebels till the day we die
were Rebels for the Cause
not some stupid cunts just a living lies
so if ya see us ya better get lost !
were guitar Gangsters not Bloody Wankers
were a 77 band, and I told you once buddy
to-a-many times but you will Never Under-stand
yeah don’t ya watch the Television , don’t ya watch the news
dont believe that punk is dead yeah ,
we’re the ones who choose .......
all across the London Town
theres a Chronic generation Goin’ round
Safety Pins n’ Razorblades... Black leather jackets
and Cool new shades
all across the London Town
theres a Chronic generation Goin’ round
Safety Pins n’ Razorblades... Black leather jackets