On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Lex Spoon wrote:
Just by the way, if you have access to a graphical terminal and a cable-modem or better network connection, you can use Nebraska. That's what I do to access my mail remotely. There is a changeset floating around to add authentication to Nebraska.
I considered that. But my cable modem at home is capped at like 7K/s going out, which is painful for Nebraska. Also, even if it were zippier, going through all the work of installing Squeak (and then hunting down and filing in the authentication CS) just to find sdome old email. Even so, that isn't possible for a lot of the machines on campus.
Squeak is nice. Trying to dumb it down to a text interface or a WWW interface seems like a doomed project.
Pffft. There's a lot of that kind of attitude on this list, and I understand it. Squeak is awesome. I wish all the computers into with I came in contact ran SqueakNOS, and there were super fast connexions for running Nebraska. But it is not so. Having my information accessible via some text or www interface allows me to get what I need on any computer, not just computers fast enough, on a fast enough link, and open to disk-quota-less software configuration. I mean nothing personal against you or anyone else one here, so please don't take it as such. :)
While a WWW interface may be more generically useful for others, I think the first thing I'll create is an IRC bot for interacting with MailDB. I know what you're thinking. Should be easier to hack together than a Comanche module (I wrote a bot framework for SqIRC a while back), but still achieves my goal.
Regards, Aaron
Aaron Reichow :: UMD ACM Pres :: http://www.d.umn.edu/~reic0024/ "the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes a river crooked." :: u. utah phillips