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. :( -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
