What would make sense to me is to have a single (X-based?) frontend that is
able to monitor/control the action of multiple Prime95-style "services".
Today, I look at my personal Primenet report to see if any of my machines
are "misbehaving" - but finding a turned-off computer using this takes days.
A screen with a few nice colors per machine would be *so* much nicer .-)
How I would implement it:
Have two processes:
- 1 like the "proxy", except different: all the mprime programs send it a
packet every time they start up (and occasionally when running). Location
configurable (can't see how to make it auto-conf, except perhaps if the
primenet server would store its location in my account info and tell the
clients when they call in for an exponent or update). Always runs.
- 1 display program, that either interrogates the "proxy" or the running
testers directly through an RPC mechanism.
Much fun. Lots of code to break.
Harald A
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
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