Thanks for the explanation John. I am a little puzzled why Mark 
wanted to update every few seconds for something used to display 3 
sec dot QRSS or slower where it takes several minutes for the trace 
to disappear off the screen.... Your 5 minute update seems far more 
sensible. And you are right, doing it from a server at home on ADSL 
brings the ADSL upload speed into the equation as well, something 
many people forget. Remember that 512kbits/s (NOT Mbits...) 
corresponds to only 40kBYTES/s and that is dead slow for large 
files....

I see now that Mark has reduced his file size and display size which 
has largely solved the issue. But I am puzzled when he said the old 
file was 600kB, what I downloaded was most certainly 1.2Mb!!

Sorry to hear about your antennas John, hope you soon sort it out. I 
worked MM0XAU on 40m on your island yesterday and he didn't mention 
storms, only lousy HF conditions..

73 Dave G3YMC

On 5 Jan 2008 at 10:16, John Pumford-Green GM4SLV wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:00:17 -0000
> "Dave Sergeant" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Not sure how John GM4SLV does it, maybe you should find out.
> 
> Hi gang,
> 
> I use the old fashioned way....
> 
> Spec Lab (running on a Win98 box) saves a screenshot every 5 minutes
> into a directory on my main Linux PC (via SaMBa filesharing).
> 
> The Linux box runs a simple script every 5 minutes to upload the new
> screenshot to the web-hosting server - actually 2 different web-hosts
> at the moment as I try a new hosting company - my normal ISP's
> webspace www.sighthound.demon.co.uk/gm4slv/grabber.htm and a new
> account at www.gm4slv.org.uk/grabber.htm
> 
> 
> The script then renames the recent capturefile and moves it to a daily
> archive directory on the Linux machine.
> 
> 5 minutes later the whole thing repeats....
> 
> 
> Mark is trying to use the built-in HTTP server of speclab and serve
> the pages directly from his machine at home. I presume he has no
> external web-hosting supplier to use and wants to do it all in-house.
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 73 Dave G3YMC (still off the air on 500k)
> >
> 
> 
>  ditto....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 


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