Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 11:14:55 AM, you wrote: MB> Usually the way it actually works out is that lots of people ask for certain MB> things, and then one person gets some free time and produces something MB> either for altruistic reasons, or boredom. I suspect this time will be no MB> different.
Very well said. I'd add that if somebody was interested in doing consulting, this would be a great product to sell as an add-on. It seems that a lot of people are interested in configuring SA remotely, and nobody really wants to develop the code necessary just for free. I'll personally never do it for free simply because I don't need it, and it's way too much work: I just term-serv into my box whenever I need to make administrative changes. Even worse, when somebody *does* build it, it won't be a particularly easy thing to install. For example, I know how I'd build it: I'd have a server-side piece that runs Telnet, basically, and whenever somebody makes a config change on the web page, it would call the server-side piece, which would log into SA via Telnet, make the changes, log out, and report back on its success. That's not the kind of thing you can just slap into an ASP page for free and hand it out to others - I looked into the cost of Telnet components in .NET a while back, and I was scared off enough that I wouldn't do it out of charity. :-D Brent -- BrentO Mongo don't know; Mongo but little chip in big computer game. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
