RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: coffee message

> If you had some kind of temperature sensor on the coffee pot and this was > connected to a machine running Apache+PHP and an interace program, the php > page could use exec() to run the interface program say every 5 seconds to > retrieve the temperature and if it was above say xo it could print "Coffee > ready" in the browser window (or active desktop on Win). > If it was a unix machine, it could send a messgae to all the networked > terminals in the workgroup i.e. those associated with coffe machine 1. Actually, you bring up a good point. :) But, if he's stuck with Win2k on a CMB VIC20 he might want to consider ditching IIS5 and going with something really small, like Xitami. He can run the exec() through PHP as suggested with minimal memory/processor usage. I don't even want to consider the security aspects of a Win2K/IIS5 install on a nuclear installation, though! :0