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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
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. -- bulibuta@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
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. -- bulibuta@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Le Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:53:33 +0100, 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".
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Best wishes,
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Add secure authentication to pebrot messenger. Regards. Dmitri.- http://es.geocities.com/trichotecene/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
Hello! 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.
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Best wishes,
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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
Hi! 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 Kind regards, Hannah.
http://www.pjsip.org/pjsua.htm ? Regards Harri
-- jakemsr@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
Hey, that wasn't there a few years ago! -- bulibuta@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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: owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org] 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
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 dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com> 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-3laJJP0&feature=related
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/
Hi! 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 Kind regards, Hannah.
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
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 dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
What's missing from OpenAFS? Or do you mean hammering out lumps in NFS 3/NFS 4 ? -Lars
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
Not to mention the server part for AFS is not in base. -- Antoine
I think solaris has secure rpc, thus crypted NFS.... but it's a nasty can of worms.
Dillon is working on it for how many years now? ;-) C.
He's got a lot more than that on his plate. Dillon does some interesting stuff. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
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: ribalba@gmail.com Phone (Work) : +41 22 7679376 Skype : ribalba Address : CERN / IT-FIO-FS / GENEVE 23/ SCHWEIZ
Plan 9-clone ISC licensed. Pieter Verberne
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Pieter Verberne I strongly second this. -- # Curt Micol
Edd asked for something "conceptually new" so any clones or ports probably don't fit. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
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
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 smallm@panix.com
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_i... 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
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
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.
Hahahahahahah... Have you ever written a single mathematics formula in HTML? What about commutative graph? You probably want to be careful 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 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 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 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 ...
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! -- bulibuta@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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
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 Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA
And what software do you think they use in the typesetting stage? I'm No sane mathematican will use anything else but TeX math syntax for communicating formulas. :-) Best Martin
Here's a thought, a privilege separated mechanism for Wireshark. diana
Absolutely. That can't be more than a few months of work.
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.
Write an OpenBSD bsd.rd equivalent for FreeBSD ;)
