VNC Server for Toasters and Light-Switches

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 30, 2002 @08:28AM from the everything-needs-a-web-page dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "How about using VNC to configure your toaster, microwave oven, or even your light-switches? Thanks to Adam Dunkels' micro-VNC server it is now possible to run a VNC server even on really small embedded 8-bit microcontrollers commonly found in such devices. The idea is that even low-cost devices that don't have a screen or graphics hardware could have a GUI, accessible over the network. To show that the server can run with very small amounts of memory, there is a demo server running on a Commodore 64. But the real question is: how would want to 'configure' their toasters using a GUI?"

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Re: VNC by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-30 09:26 · Score: -1, Troll

I honestly hope that nobody is capable of taking this tripe seriously. I suppose if it is a troll, I am susceptible to being provoked by it; I am a conservative Christian. So I will try to avoid being trolled and simply say this:

Please exercise a little restraint and show a little respect. Thist post could've been completely funny without the gratuitous assocation between Christianity and what really are silly, backwards attitudes.

One does not check one's mind at the door when becoming either a Christian or a conservative.