[Weather] Another station for sale

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth William D. Knoche at 11/30/2006 12:29 PM...
> I use the 1wire and oww on Solaris. 
Bill - what sort of 1-Wire adapter are you using, and is that a SPARC
box?  Been wondering if I can get a USB adapter working on my Blade 100
with Solaris 10, but am a bit of a Solaris newbie and only know my way
around Linux.

> Love to create a set of applets or ajax widgets to get the effect of 
> near realtime graphical displays (wind direction and speed sicne that is 
> the one that really changes quickly) in a browser.
> My restriction is that I only use unix here. I didn't want to have to 
> have a M$ box up all the time (when I did it never seemed very stable).

Restriction?  Unix a restriction? ;-)  If you want something like that,
I'd have a look at XUL, either running it with Firefox/Thunderbird or as
a stand-alone application using XULRunner.

With XUL, you can almost write a sort of bootloader script that can then
suck the rest of the application down using XMLHttpRequest.  Use
timeouts to refresh the data - been doing XUL+XMLHttpRequest for another
project[1] and it is really, really neat.

Cheers

M

1 - http://websticky.net (The really neat stuff is my development
version of the Firefox toolbar, not the one on the site ;-)


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