[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

[Ken Hough]

Martyn Welch wrote:
> Just given this a go. Looks like it is pretty much exactly what we were 
> looking for initially.
> 
> Using this we could run a totally headless system as the CD Burner.
> 
> The java client app can be run as a standalone application and is reasonably 
> configureable, as well as being very simple to use.
> 
> Martyn

Can't get away from the fact that users must go to burner box to 
load/retrieve CDs, so is there any real need to or indeed any benefit in 
making it a headless box? -- apart from not needing a VDU, etc.

Ken Hough

> 
> ------ Original message ------
> On Wednesday 21 Jul 2004 16:13, Matthew Trout wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:27:30PM +0100, Andy Baxter wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 20 July 2004 22:08, Ken Hough wrote:
>>>
>>>>Martyn Welch wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Having (almost) cracked this, how should we develop our CD burning app?
>>>>I've used Borland C++ Builder under MS Windows, but haven't yet got
>>>>around to window programming under Linux. I intend to get into
>>>>Kdevelop/QT soon.
>>>
>>>why not do it using cgi, to give a web interface? most people are
>>>familiar with this, it's easy enough to write, and perl is a good
>>>language for scripting command line tools like cdrecord.
>>
>>How about http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/ ?
>>
>>Provides a web interface -and- a command line interface; I've used the CLI
>>on a box at $ORK[-1] and it never let me down.
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>