[TigersEye]

That's all Greek to me but my friend would know exactly what you're talking about. I understood that his old box was too slow and too low powered to deal with today's internet load but thousands of times more powerful than necessary to track anything you could imagine putting together for the weather station data.

Quite an age when our junk computers could out compute the machines they used to put a man on the moon.

[familyop]

That’s a good point and very true. Much can be done quickly with old and/or slow computers for controlling machines. Most of the device drivers are written in C or C++, and much of the front end software, C, C++, Python etc.

And yes, most commercial Web site owners tend to hire developers who use bloated scripts and mis-applied languages (PHP, JAVA, Flash, etc.).