[Lancaster] Re: the kitchen network.

[Andy Baxter]

On Thursday 22 July 2004 22:50, Andy Baxter wrote:
> i'm just trying it out - it looks really neat. i got it working by
> setting /usr/local/bin/j2re..../javaws/javaws as the application for
> application/x-java-jnlp-file files. (having already downloaded the j2re
> runtime environment).
>
> do you know roughly how much CPU it takes to burn a CD at maybe 8x? i.e.
> what kind of machine would we need for this, and could it do anything else
> as well?

answering my own question - i'm just writing an iso to CD/RW on a DVD drive. 
it's writing at 4x, and using about 0.6% CPU on a 1.4GHz machine. So I guess 
one of the old pentiums we already have would do fine.

> On Thursday 22 July 2004 09:37, Martyn Welch wrote:
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> > 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
> >
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> > 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.
> >
> > - --
> > Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)
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Thanks, andy.