RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: coffee message
| From: | HKG) | Date: | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:25:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: coffee message | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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>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.
It is fascinating to see how this group explcitly (PHP-WIN) dedicated to M$
software warms for thge OpenSource software, and exploits the bad sides of
M$. But that's life isn't it?! We don't work with what we like to work with,
but what we got paid to work with.
Anyone doesn't running Linux/FreeBSD/NetBSD/Solaris at home raise a hand,
please.