28 Jun
2003
28 Jun
'03
3:45 a.m.
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Tarsi wrote:
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.
Ah, you learned the hard way :) You should've put controls into the
program that would require a certain interval between switches to prevent
this sort of thing.
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