Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
Hello! On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 07:06:53PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: 20 June 2008 P3. 22:13:12 Julien Cabillot wrote: Le Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:53:33 +0100, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] a C)crit : Paul Irofti wrote: Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) ncmpc is cool but, write password in clear text in arguments is not a good solution. You can set up password in environment variable. In such cases I write wrapper scripts (say, ~/bin/ncmpc.my) and, possibly, add a shell alias like ncmpc=~/bin/ncmpc.my. Writing clear text in the environment is no better than in arguments. See the -e option in ps(1) (look for -e in the manual page). Kind regards, Hannah.
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27 June 2008 c. 13:52:12 Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 07:06:53PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: 20 June 2008 P3. 22:13:12 Julien Cabillot wrote: Le Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:53:33 +0100, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] a C)crit : Paul Irofti wrote: Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) ncmpc is cool but, write password in clear text in arguments is not a good solution. You can set up password in environment variable. In such cases I write wrapper scripts (say, ~/bin/ncmpc.my) and, possibly, add a shell alias like ncmpc=~/bin/ncmpc.my. Writing clear text in the environment is no better than in arguments. See the -e option in ps(1) (look for -e in the manual page). Kind regards, Hannah. The more you live, the more you learn. :( Thanks. -- Best wishes, Vadim Zhukov
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. Write an OpenBSD bsd.rd equivalent for FreeBSD ;)
Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
Adriaan ha scritto: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. Write an OpenBSD bsd.rd equivalent for FreeBSD ;) Improve the OpenBSD kernel for xbox... ;)
Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
20 June 2008 P3. 22:13:12 Julien Cabillot wrote: Le Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:53:33 +0100, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] a C)crit : Paul Irofti wrote: Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) ncmpc is cool but, write password in clear text in arguments is not a good solution. You can set up password in environment variable. In such cases I write wrapper scripts (say, ~/bin/ncmpc.my) and, possibly, add a shell alias like ncmpc=~/bin/ncmpc.my. -- Best wishes, Vadim Zhukov
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On Friday June 20 2008 18:09, you wrote: Oh god... Into my University it's almost the opposite, so much professors using MS Word(R) and still using the IEEE .doc template to write papers. ... Personally I dont understand why it's so fuckin difficult to understand that LaTeX it's great. I once had to do an assignment for a college class wherein the assignment specified it be submitted in MS Word format. What i did was write it in LaTeX, convert that to PDF, convert the PDF to images (1 per page), and then import the images into Word. (I'm not saying that's the *best* path from LaTeX to Word, but it was the first one i thought of that i could make work.) The resulting document was astonishingly large. But it met the requirements as they were written. I turned in the monstrous Word document and got full credit for it. I also complained to the professor about requiring Word documents, and for the next semester the format requirement was changed to PDF. Dan RamaleyDial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540Des Moines IA 50311 USA
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Paul Irofti wrote: Do the CLI SIP Phone! I wanted to code that for so long, but the SIP protocol and its friends tend to go so far as time just wasn't enough. But it would be pretty cool to have that. http://www.pjsip.org/pjsua.htm ? Regards Harri
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Edd Barrett wrote: I would love a decent network filesystem, but its probably too much work for an undergrad project. Its more like a PHD. What's missing from OpenAFS? Or do you mean hammering out lumps in NFS 3/NFS 4 ? -Lars
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Something on the more funny side. Write something that you can get flash in links. This could use aa lib. No idea how hard this would be though. Cheers Didi www.cern.ch/ribalba / www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone (Work) : +41 22 7679376 Skype : ribalba Address : CERN / IT-FIO-FS / GENEVE 23/ SCHWEIZ On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. Plan 9-clone ISC licensed. Pieter Verberne
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:33:21AM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:19:00AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Paul Irofti wrote: Do the CLI SIP Phone! I wanted to code that for so long, but the SIP protocol and its friends tend to go so far as time just wasn't enough. But it would be pretty cool to have that. http://www.pjsip.org/pjsua.htm ? ports/telephony/pjsua Hey, that wasn't there a few years ago! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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Lars NoodC)n wrote: Edd Barrett wrote: I would love a decent network filesystem, but its probably too much work for an undergrad project. Its more like a PHD. What's missing from OpenAFS? Or do you mean hammering out lumps in NFS 3/NFS 4 ? I use NFSv3 because its simple, but I hate it because of the security issues. If AFS were simpler perhaps. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: Lars NoodC)n wrote: Edd Barrett wrote: I would love a decent network filesystem, but its probably too much work for an undergrad project. Its more like a PHD. What's missing from OpenAFS? Or do you mean hammering out lumps in NFS 3/NFS 4 ? I use NFSv3 because its simple, but I hate it because of the security issues. If AFS were simpler perhaps. Not to mention the server part for AFS is not in base. -- Antoine
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:48:08PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Lars NoodC)n wrote: Edd Barrett wrote: I would love a decent network filesystem, but its probably too much work for an undergrad project. Its more like a PHD. What's missing from OpenAFS? Or do you mean hammering out lumps in NFS 3/NFS 4 ? I use NFSv3 because its simple, but I hate it because of the security issues. If AFS were simpler perhaps. I think solaris has secure rpc, thus crypted NFS but it's a nasty can of worms.
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Hi! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:53:49PM -0400, bofh wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). Something like the infamous googlefs? I'd be interested. Lots of difficult things still left to do. For that, I'd think a generic user space filesystem binding layer would be cool. We *do* have the hooks for the AFS client (/sys/xfs/). But are they generic enough? Would it perhaps help to have FUSE compatible interfaces? [...] Kind regards, Hannah.
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Hi! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:26:54PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Paul Irofti wrote: [...] Do the CLI SIP Phone! I wanted to code that for so long, but the SIP protocol and its friends tend to go so far as time just wasn't enough. But it would be pretty cool to have that. i would absolutely love to see this one go and it would be very useful. maybe script some ssh-ing into it to allow for easy proper call encryption? ;) SIP/RTP are UDP based, so no fun with ssh. And... There're *standards* for encrypting both SIP and RTP. Just not with (enough) widespread implementation, alas. [...] Kind regards, Hannah.
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plan 9-clone ISC licensed. I strongly second this. -- # Curt Micol
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:57:14AM -0400, Curt Micol wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plan 9-clone ISC licensed. I strongly second this. Edd asked for something conceptually new so any clones or ports probably don't fit. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
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Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:57:14AM -0400, Curt Micol wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plan 9-clone ISC licensed. I strongly second this. Edd asked for something conceptually new so any clones or ports probably don't fit. I might add that we are given 3 months including writeup. My ideas so far: - A parser generator written in a modern scripting language. - A scripting language to teach good programming practices to first year java students. - A linter of some kind - A good TeX to html convertor (extensible) - A good TeX gui - A comparison of the sun grid engine (for example) and ssh/relayd for load balancing x11 applications. - An exploration of llvm (but i can't get a sane build due to gcc bugs) -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
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On 6/20/08, Curt Micol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plan 9-clone ISC licensed. I strongly second this. Absolutely. That can't be more than a few months of work.
Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
On 6/18/08, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: Unfortunately, I think asking misc What do you want? is pretty fruitless. Everybody wants something. That said, as a learning experience, and for something new, look into parallelism. There's some neat stuff like Intel's thread building blocks, designed to be easier than threading, but it's all early stages.
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:28:30PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: My ideas so far: - A parser generator written in a modern scripting language. - A scripting language to teach good programming practices to first year java students. - A linter of some kind - A good TeX to html convertor (extensible) - A good TeX gui - A comparison of the sun grid engine (for example) and ssh/relayd for load balancing x11 applications. - An exploration of llvm (but i can't get a sane build due to gcc bugs) Any interest in Parrot or Perl 6? I bet you there are all kinds of useful projects that could be done for that. But it looks like LOLCode on parrot has already been done, so that's out. -- Mike Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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- A good TeX to html convertor (extensible) - A good TeX gui There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Many technical publishers have already made the transition. See, for example, the following link from Cambridge University Press https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/XML_workflow.asp#xml_introduction An interesting alternative project would be to create an HTML and MathML GUI, with the intent of luring mathematicians and physicists away from TeX. And then create an HTML/MathML to TeX converter, so that they can share their work with colleagues and journals that still insist on TeX.
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Matthew Szudzik wrote: - A good TeX to html convertor (extensible) - A good TeX gui There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Why say these things :( Many technical publishers have already made the transition. See, for example, the following link from Cambridge University Press https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/XML_workflow.asp#xml_introduction An interesting alternative project would be to create an HTML and MathML GUI, with the intent of luring mathematicians and physicists away from TeX. And then create an HTML/MathML to TeX converter, so that they can share their work with colleagues and journals that still insist on TeX. My hate for XML will make this difficult to motivated on. TeX isnt as dead as you think. Have you for example investigated XMLTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt or XeTeX? -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
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Here's a thought, a privilege separated mechanism for Wireshark. diana
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:01:24PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: TeX isnt as dead as you think. After studying two years at a Department of Mathematical Sciences and helping a lot of the staff with LaTeX-related stuff while there, I can certainly second that. Due to the myriad of packages people use, I think it'll be a never-ending job to create good tools to convert between LaTeX/TeX and e.g. XML. In my experience, people care _a lot_ about typography and will not settle with a mediocre conversion result. Martin
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Le Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:53:33 +0100, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] a C)crit : Paul Irofti wrote: Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) ncmpc is cool but, write password in clear text in arguments is not a good solution.
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Edd Barrett wrote: TeX isnt as dead as you think. I know of two people that use TeX. One is a grad student going for his PHD (and the people he works with), as well as a local author who using Lyx (a wysiwyg for LaTeX) for writing books. Hence TeX isn't really dead.
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On 2008-06-20, Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a thought, a privilege separated mechanism for Wireshark. they have it in SVN - I'm part-way through updating the old port on ports@
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:47:18PM +, Matthew Szudzik wrote: - A good TeX to html convertor (extensible) - A good TeX gui There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete. I just finished writing my paper, my presentation and what not in LaTeX for getting my University diploma. Everybody from IEEE is using it, all the professors from the Mathematics, Signal Processing et al. are using. It's as alive as it gets baby! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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Edd Barrett wrote: Matthew Szudzik wrote: - A good TeX to html convertor (extensible) - A good TeX gui There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Hahahahahahah... Have you ever written a single mathematics formula in HTML? What about commutative graph? You probably want to be careful what are you writing since this is the public mailing list. Why say these things :( Many technical publishers have already made the transition. See, for example, the following link from Cambridge University Press Many people in mathematics and physics believe that publishers like Cambridge University Press should not exist anymore. The future is in open publishing since the current pricing practices of so called publishers are preventing spread of knowledge and communication among professionals. I can bet my life that there are no more then three people left in Cambridge University Press that have a clue about calligraphy. That doesn't not prevent them of pricing over $200 the already typed and publishing ready (thanks to the TeX) books. Do not say anything about royalties and the price of printing. Royalties for book priced around $200 are no more than $5. The printing is probably a $1. Guess what. The books are sent in the electronic format to the cheapest printing presses around the world. https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/XML_workflow.asp#xml_introduction An interesting alternative project would be to create an HTML and MathML GUI, with the intent of luring mathematicians and physicists away from TeX. You are really convinced that the Mathematicians and Physicists are bunch of monkey whom you can lure with a peace of banana. There are many people in science who are very knowledgeable about calligraphy. Ask M$ and their MathType division how they are doing? And then create an HTML/MathML to TeX converter, so that they can share their work with colleagues and journals that still insist on TeX. My hate for XML will make this difficult to motivated on. TeX isnt as dead as you think. He might have heard something about Metafont. Even Metafont is fantastic idea unfortunately based on unrealistic expectations of Donald Knuth that calligraphers will learn mathematics and how to use parameters to create new fonts. Have you for example investigated XMLTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt or XeTeX? To all those who think that the TeX is dead I dare you to find me a single serious mathematics or physics journal on the world which would accept anything else except TeX. There is only one way to kill the TeX. Sit down and throughout rewrite Troff code giving it native abilities to process formulas (without pre-processor), pictures, and modernize mark up syntax. To stay on the topic of TeX. Edd you know what would be a nit idea (probably little bit challenging). Get to pure TeX code and add picture processing capabilities or try to mess with Troff code and see if it can be rewritten so that it remains small compiler (TeX is interpreter as you know) but with the mark up syntax which resembles Latex or ConTeXt Best, Predrag
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On Friday June 20 2008 11:47, you wrote: There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Many technical publishers have already made the transition. See, for example, the following link from Cambridge University Press https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/XML_w orkflow.asp#xml_introduction https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/LaTex_workflow.asp Looks like they support LaTeX just fine. From that page, it even sounds like submitting in LaTeX will result in a a faster time to actual publication: LaTeX workflows are generally speedier than the XML or conventional equivalents. I saw no evidence that LaTeX is being replaced by XML. I did note that they say the majority of books use XML, but i'm guessing more potential authors these days have a word processor that can spit out some form of XML than know how to write LaTeX. Please note that i'm a bit biased though. For what few papers i have to write these days i use my favorite text editor to write LaTeX files. I've been using it for close to a decade. In that time i've found LaTeX has some similarties to OpenBSD. In either case, i've learned to trust that someone smarter than me (at least in the areas of page layout and Unix system administration) spent some time considering everything, and i should just use the default settings unless i have a legitimate reason for wanting to change them. In other words, don't turn the knobs just for the sake of turning them. By following that simple rule, it is quite fast and easy to write something in LaTeX, and the output is good. Similarly, setting up and using an OpenBSD system is fast and easy, and it just works. Dan RamaleyDial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540Des Moines IA 50311 USA
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2008/6/20 Matthew Szudzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Many technical publishers No. There is simply no other comparable batch typesetter. have already made the transition. See, for example, the following link from Cambridge University Press https://authornet.cambridge.org/information/productionguide/stm/XML_workflow.asp#xml_introduction And what software do you think they use in the typesetting stage? I'm pretty sure it's TeX. :-p An interesting alternative project would be to create an HTML and MathML GUI, with the intent of luring mathematicians and physicists away from TeX. And then create an HTML/MathML to TeX converter, so that they can No sane mathematican will use anything else but TeX math syntax for communicating formulas. :-) Best Martin
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-06-20, Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a thought, a privilege separated mechanism for Wireshark. they have it in SVN - I'm part-way through updating the old port on ports@ Oh, cool. I've been capturing with tcpdump then load the capture file into Wireshark. guess I'll have to come up with another idea for edd diana
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Paul Irofti ha scritto: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:47:18PM +, Matthew Szudzik wrote: - A good TeX to html convertor (extensible) - A good TeX gui There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete. I just finished writing my paper, my presentation and what not in LaTeX for getting my University diploma. Everybody from IEEE is using it, all the professors from the Mathematics, Signal Processing et al. are using. It's as alive as it gets baby! Oh god... Into my University it's almost the opposite, so much professors using MS Word(R) and still using the IEEE .doc template to write papers... As result, you can see bad formatted math formulas, LTI sistems that sucks. Personally I dont understand why it's so fuckin difficult to understand that LaTeX it's great. You just have to write and to choice your document class with some packages... It's more simple than MSWord. If someone want to see some examples, tell me for links of this obscenity :) Francesco
OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. Do the CLI SIP Phone! I wanted to code that for so long, but the SIP protocol and its friends tend to go so far as time just wasn't enough. But it would be pretty cool to have that. Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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Paul Irofti wrote: Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
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Shell commands for accessing web based search engines. I would like to do it myself, but am expecting that what seems like a simple idea on the surface quickly becomes non trivial. Anathae Townsend -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edd Barrett Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:16 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Cc: William French Subject: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
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Paul Irofti wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. Do the CLI SIP Phone! I wanted to code that for so long, but the SIP protocol and its friends tend to go so far as time just wasn't enough. But it would be pretty cool to have that. i would absolutely love to see this one go and it would be very useful. maybe script some ssh-ing into it to allow for easy proper call encryption? ;) i have some further feature suggestions that could push it into the 'conceptually new' category. not for public consumption cheers, jake
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:53:33PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Paul Irofti wrote: Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) I know them, I use them. But what about external media like DVDs and CDs? Or even memory sticks. Once removed, they'll be foobared by the next C-S-U. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). Something like the infamous googlefs? I'd be interested. Lots of difficult things still left to do. Dom0 xen would be interesting. zfs in openbsd would be interesting - zfs still have lots of things that are unsolved, so would be good fodder. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity. -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted. -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0feature=related
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Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). I would love a decent network filesystem, but its probably too much work for an undergrad project. Its more like a PHD. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:54:12AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). I would love a decent network filesystem, but its probably too much work for an undergrad project. Its more like a PHD. Yeah, it's too big of a project for that. It's been on my someday list for a while, but it gets hairy pretty quick if you're going to do it right. Ok, so how about figuring out a general method to bring the usefulness of commandline pipes | to GUI? Maybe another doctoral thesis idea. :( -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:53:49PM -0400, bofh wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). Something like the infamous googlefs? I'd be interested. Lots of difficult things still left to do. Dom0 xen would be interesting. zfs in openbsd would be interesting - zfs still have lots of things that are unsolved, so would be good fodder. Better yet, Dtrace. John Birrell has finished the kernel bits using a shim layer to overcome the licensing incompatibilities (according to him). ZFS, while very cool, is still under heavy development. Dtrace is extremely useful for profiling system behavior, and really has no equal. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/
Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
On 19/06/2008, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a write up. How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). Dillon is working on it for how many years now? ;-) C.
Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:08:06PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). Dillon is working on it for how many years now? ;-) He's got a lot more than that on his plate. Dillon does some interesting stuff. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
