[Weather] Another station for sale

[William D. Knoche]

Matthew Smith wrote:

> 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.

I am just using the serial interface I originally got when I bought the 
Dallas kit now so long ago.
I had been running on a SPARC (SS20) but now on a home built Athlon64 box.
I haven't tried the USB adapter but others report it works fine.

Let me know if you need any help with Solaris.

> 
> 
>>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.

I will take a look at it.
Always looking for something new to consume all that spare time ;-)
Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> 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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