Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > Routing is a good reason, but a > web-accessible coffeemaker probably isn't.
Ahh yes, we did one of those in physics lab, in maybe '95 or so. Prof. Lubin had rooms on three floors of the building and also the high-bay for the satellites. It was cold in there... Coded in C, running qnx, a DAC, and a unity gain op amp to buffer the signal, there weren't any MS web servers to befoul the soup. OS/2 was an option, but the grad students laughed at that :) But the VLB video card was a big help. All very clean... cgi back-end was a bit of a pain, though. You had to write all those text handling functions in C which still aren't there, and you had to preload Mr. Coffee. It was more fun to have somebody come over the intercom at just the right moment of frustration and say in that special voice, "fresh pot of coffee, anyone?".... Doors would be slamming all over with that unmistakable sound that's made when people crash into the exterior stairwells of a UC campus building. It makes that same sound when they run for coffee at JPL, too. :-) And man, aren't those government subsidized burgers cheap! I think I'll go have a cup right now. Anyone? ms _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
