Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-27 Thread Vadim Zhukov
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: > >

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-27 Thread Hannah Schroeter
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-25 Thread raven
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 O

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-25 Thread Adriaan
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 base

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-24 Thread Vadim Zhukov
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 > >

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-23 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread raven
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 no

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Diana Eichert
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 l

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Martin Schröder
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 exa

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
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:

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Predrag Punosevac
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? W

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Paul Irofti
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 Unive

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
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@

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread David T Harris
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.

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Julien Cabillot
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 :) > > ncmp

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Martin Toft
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 us

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Diana Eichert
Here's a thought, a privilege separated mechanism for Wireshark. diana

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Edd Barrett
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Matthew Szudzik
> - 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 Univers

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Michael Small
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 (e

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Ted Unangst
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 somet

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Ted Unangst
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

2008-06-20 Thread Edd Barrett
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 f

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Darrin Chandler
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Curt Micol
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Hannah Schroeter
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 a

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Hannah Schroeter
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 re

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Marc Espie
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Edd Barrett
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 becau

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Paul Irofti
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 en

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Pieter Verberne
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 bon

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Didi
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Lars Noodén
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
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.pjs

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Harald Dunkel
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
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 m

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
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: > > > >

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Jason Dixon
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
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 proj

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Edd Barrett
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 bas

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread bofh
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?

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Irofti
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 wh

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
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 bas

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Edd Barrett
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

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Irofti
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'

OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Edd Barrett
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 w