Thanks for that detailed response, Gorgonops. It confirms what I had rather less clearly surmised. What I did not know was the bit about embedding the sequence in something like an image file. I had thought maybe a plain plain ascii text file might be worth trying....
Hubs R Us on my old AppleTalk network, so we're good to go on that score.
I now think that what I am actually going to try to do in idle moments over the next little while is to get it working on a Newton. This will be probably be using NTK and associated Newton programming tools, which used to cost thousands but are now freeware. Yep. I have concocted the idea of using an eMate (I have three lying around) as a WOL appliance fronting a sort of gateway internet presence, doing what is necessary by referring on to blogspot, and perhaps some professional material hosted by my employer, and also making the home network accessible (to me) from anywhere. The Newton will be serving a basic webpage using NPDS, and the WOL script will run as an SSI. That's the plan, anyway. If successful, I'll release the script into the NPDS wild for others to use.
Since I can actally run my eMate from a small solar panel not much bigger than a couple of playing cards, AND charge the battery at the same time, this particular "Apple Server Solution" will be a good deal cheaper than running a dual G4 or possibly a dual G5 home server 24/7. This gives a whole new sense to the eMate as the Green Machine.
I know it would be trivial to do with php and Apache, but where's the fun in that?
Hubs R Us on my old AppleTalk network, so we're good to go on that score.
I now think that what I am actually going to try to do in idle moments over the next little while is to get it working on a Newton. This will be probably be using NTK and associated Newton programming tools, which used to cost thousands but are now freeware. Yep. I have concocted the idea of using an eMate (I have three lying around) as a WOL appliance fronting a sort of gateway internet presence, doing what is necessary by referring on to blogspot, and perhaps some professional material hosted by my employer, and also making the home network accessible (to me) from anywhere. The Newton will be serving a basic webpage using NPDS, and the WOL script will run as an SSI. That's the plan, anyway. If successful, I'll release the script into the NPDS wild for others to use.
Since I can actally run my eMate from a small solar panel not much bigger than a couple of playing cards, AND charge the battery at the same time, this particular "Apple Server Solution" will be a good deal cheaper than running a dual G4 or possibly a dual G5 home server 24/7. This gives a whole new sense to the eMate as the Green Machine.
I know it would be trivial to do with php and Apache, but where's the fun in that?