Welcome to the rather tatty Webcam experiment, running in a desultory fashion from PC Magazine UK's ostensibly ordinary offices on the south bank of the Thames. A happy gaggle of guppies, us, turning out hundreds of pages a month. And all about computers. Golly.
This isn't running on an official Ziff server -- Ziff is a big company, and commendably paranoid about letting techno-oiks have too much access to its information infrastructure -- but instead sits comfortably on web space provided by the irrepressible, incorrigable and entirely excellent fly.net. These people are dangerous. Trust them.
Enough nonsense. Here's the latest cyberotogravure from our publishing penthouse.
If it looks dark and empty, we've all gone home. If it looks light and empty, we're at lunch. We like lunch.
And welcome listeners to The Network, BBC Radio 4's wireless network wunderkind of the age. Link soon, link often.
The system is based around a Windows 95 Dan Pentium, with a Connectix QuickCam generating an image once per 30 seconds. Once every five or so minutes, System Agent kicks an FTP session off and sends an image out to fly.net. Using software supplied with OS and the QuickCam (some of which can also be found on the Net), it took approximately an hour from unpacking the camera for the first time to this site going live...
Latest update: Rupert's fictional pages
Glance at the Onomatograph instruction page
No home page yet, but here's a bit of old Rupe
