Abstract: Remotely executing programs access hardware components and upload component management information from these hardware components bypassing the operating system otherwise controlling the hardware components. A web-based browser application executes on a personal computer that is coupled to the Internet and accesses the hardware component information. Another computer that is also connected to the Internet hosts the hardware components that the web-based browser application wishes to access. The operating system of the second computer controls the operation of the hardware components. An adapter routine executing on an intermediate server, to which the hardware components are coupled and are capable of transferring component information in a predetermined format, serves as an intermediary between the web-based browser application and the hardware components.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating sewage by providing a plurality of uniquely designed thin discs that are mounted on a shaft so that the discs are immersed approximately 40% in a sewage tank. The shaft is rotated at peripheral speeds on the order of 35-75 feet per minute to alternately expose the discs to the atmosphere and the liquid containing wastewater in the tank to treat the wastewater in the tank by providing for the growth of biological slimes on the surfaces of the discs. The discs have a corrugated configuration with the corrugations of the alternate discs disposed at ninety degrees to each other to provide maximum usable surface area in a given rotating volume while having sufficient clearance to permit unobstructive sloughing of growths.