>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. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
