Re: SEUL: Seeking maintainer for monitor and modem databases

[Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net>]

On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Erik Walthinsen wrote:

> 
> OK, since I'm at it, any takers for maintaining this monitor database?  As 
> Mike mentions, getting one started is an almost trivial matter of writing a 
> perl script (or finding a friend or someone on this list to write it for you)
> to convert what Windoze comes with.
> 
I'll volunteer, only thing is I know very little perl...  Oh well, next
time I'm in Barnes And Nobles I'll pick up a good book on it.  Ideally,
you could extract the data with perl and put it into a PostgreSQL db.

> Er, there be dragons, however.  What kind of license do those .inf files fall 
> under?  
>
With the monitor companies, you ask them and they'll be happy to tell ya.
It's just that MS asked them.  We should be fine using MS's numbers.

> The next stage is to put together a couple pages for this effort, including a 
> simple web form for people to enter their monitor vendor and monitor, with 
> the appropriate frequency information, and whatever else (like supported 
> resolutions @ what frequencies).  Post a simple announce to a few places, and 
> I think we'll have a decent database built up pretty quickly.
> 
You could have it e-mail the data to an address on my computer, that'd put the
mail through a perl script which could automatically add the the data to
the PostgreSQL db.

> 
> Anyway, is there anyone out there willing to gather the information and 
> maintain it in a database on the web site?  I'm working on the database part 
> of it, so all you'd have to do is gather the info and keep it up to date.
> 
Should the database be on your site or mine?  You can access my computer
at http://www.commet.dyn.ml.org, but it only works when I'm online. 

> Let's start getting some things done!!  :-)
> 
Finally!  TTYL!


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