Device to reset power...

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Jun 28 10:45:01 2003

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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