On 13 Dec 2008, at 09:22, Ross Burton wrote:
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 19:08 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
Then we can build on top of that to provide locations so you can
switch the usage profile, the proxy configuration, VPN settings and
other stuff basing on where you sit (and get bonus points for
detecting locations basing on stuff like current wireless network).
Anyway that's a whole different story and does not belong in this
thread.
This sounds a lot like Marco Polo for MacOS, which I started cloning
as
Shackleton (http://burtonini.com/bzr/shackleton/).
And FWIW, it's also what NWAM does (well, will do shortly) in
OpenSolaris.
<http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/p1spec/Location_Spec/>
Cheeri,
Calum.
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