That jpeg image viewing with fP...

[Brian K. White]

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Subject: Re: That jpeg image viewing with fP...


> Only Howie would say something like:
>> |
>> | Well, I'm talking about possibly eliminating that entirely.
>> |
>> That would be great - How much. once it is done?
>
> Depends on audience size, expectations of further resales, and how long it
> takes me to get a few particulars ironed out.  Questions, several of 
> which,
> I asked the other day and for which I received no answers.
>
> If only 2-3 people want it though, I mean, I shouldn't even bother.  It'd
> take me a day or two to get it ironed out to the point I'd be satisfied it
> was stable, and for $60, that's less than one hour of working for someone
> else.  IOW, not worth the effort.
>
> The only way it might be worth it to me if there's no bigger audience is
> in the educational experience of gluing networking into a GUI.  I've done
> GUI, I've done networking.  I haven't mixed the two--yet.  I intended to
> do that with a project I was going to call Wall4Win.  That project would
> be pretty much a client on every Windows system that stays hidden until
> any of the systems it modifies receives a UDP broadcasted system message.
> Basically, 'wall' for Windows.  Why is that desirable?  I know a lot of
> systems (especially as people take everything to browser-based use) where
> nobody's logged in, and it would be nice to just get a desktop message
> rather than have to phone or walk around the office telling everyone the
> system is going down for 5-30min for whatever reason--and again when it's
> back up.  You'd just use a client to take the message and do the broadcast
> to all registered listening machines.  And the broadcasting software could
> be a CLI/GUI combo--if you supply -m message_file it would just broadcast
> that message, but if you don't specify that argument, you'd get a GUI
> text editor with a "Send" button.  I had it planned enough that I learned

It sounds potentially really useful, but,
All of our sites have had FacetWin for years, and FacetWin has that* and 
we've never actually used it once.

* including a win based gui sender as well as a unix command line sender, 
and a systray client on every pc that even reenables itself any time you use 
the terminal emulator even if a user deliberately disabled the systray 
client in msconfig startup, and a sending option that sends to all.

In samba-land, there is also winpopup which has been a built-in part of 
windows forever, that is usually disabled these days because spammers 
figured out how to send ads to it.
You can enable that on the pc's and there is a command for sending messages 
to that in both samba and visionfs (the only other smb server available on 
sco)
I don't know if there is a "send to all" option offhand, but even if there 
wasn't, it wouldn't be hard to get a list of workgroups & pc's from 
smbclient, or get a list of IP's from arp -a, and then send to each one.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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