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 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.
>> 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).
>
> I would love a decent network filesystem, but its probably too much work 
> for an undergrad project. Its more like a PHD.

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. :(

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