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MonkeyView :: Info |
The MonkeyView application server (which is Copyright © 2000-2007, Rudy Rucker, Jr.) was developed on FreeBSD 3.4 operating system with a K6-2 400 Mhz chip. There was a 10 Gig IDE hard disk in the machine.
Ah, how times have changed! For new specs on the box, browse the MonkeyView history page.
The MonkeyView software is a Perl
module for Apache. The module uses DBI
to connect to a MySQL
database. The information about users and the photos they upload are
stored in the database. I really love Perl and mod_perl in the Apache
environment. The speed in which it runs beats the poop out of Java (performance)
and C (development time).
The idea for this site came about as a way to cope with the volume of photos generated from my Kodak DC290 camera. The main reason I picked that digital camera is the digita operating system on it. The DC290 is a smart camera, and you can compile an run your own C programs on the camera (the LCD screen acts as your monitor). Okay, maybe the real reason is that MAME has already been ported to digita. MAME is a multiple-arcasde-machine-emulator. In other words, I can play Bezerk and PacMan on it!
That camera long ago pooped out and I have been through several since then. Now, I have a Sony DSC-T9 that is easy to use.