Device to reset power...

There are quite a few HOWTOs out here like this one: http://www.linuxhq.com/ldp/howto/mini/Home-Electrical-Control/index.html which basically drives a relay switch off of the parallel port of a Linux box. I built one of these and they work really nice. After building it, I had it hooked up to the ||port of my webserver in my apartment. I then had my Christmas lights plugged into it. A Perl CGI script on my webserver allowed surfers to go and switch the lights on and off on demand. Since I had a live webcam on the room as well, they could watch the room light up and go dark. Went pretty well and was fairly entertaining until some jerk went and programmed a script to sit there and turn it on and off as fast as possible. That put an end to that. Even if you're not a whiz with a soldering iron, it's easy to make. Let me know if you need schematics and I'll try to dig my device out and write them down. Tarsi -- ---------------------------- http://tarsi.binhost.com http://www.foreverbeyond.org http://www.binhost.com ----------------------------