[jhb] ADS Viewer
- From: "Fossil" <fossil@xxxxxxx>
- To: "JHB Private Email" <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Tim Benson" <bison@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 16:01:39 +0100
Steve has released an update to ADSViewer. It doesn't add a lot other than
show the Lat/Long of the mouse cursor up in the window header.
The new file can be found at http://code.google.com/p/adstools/ - just
download the ADSViewer 1.21 jar file. Mike - you will also need the new
ADSCast 1.2 file too as the old server file doesn't work with the new
viewer.
In the end I had seven people test ADSV and all received data perfectly
other than Frank. The two biggest headaches were adjusting firewalls to let
the port data through and the annoying matter of dynamic IP Addresses. Not
only do some ISP's give you different IP addresses each time you log in but
Windows defaults to allocating dynamic IP addresses for your network
machines too. One day the data can be going to the correct PC but the next
day it could be routed to your printer!
Allocating a static IP address for your individual computers, printers and
the like is quite easy but it is harder sorting out the problem of a dynamic
IP from your ISP. It can be done by using a service like DynDNS where you
setup a web server to do the work for you. This is why I can send data to
Gerry on 83.218.30.232 (fixed IP address) but for Steve the data is sent to
k5okc.homeip.net because his ISP used dynamic addresses.
I am still firing off data when I remember to active the server here but the
only live recipients are Gerry, Mike and Tim for now.
bones
bones@xxxxxxx
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