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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:54:05PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> At Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:02:00AM -0400 or thereabouts, 
> suspect Jay Ashworth was observed uttering:
> > Hoo boy, do I want that.  :-)
> 
> I take it you're serious?

I have several sites for which the uptime standards are ... less strict
than Brian would like, so yeah, if the site price is low enough.

>                          I got systray information (again...found out I'd
> mis-filed it) this morning, so now the only thing I need to know is how to
> remove a task from the Alt-TAB list.  Unless putting it in the systray does
> that automatically--dunno, haven't -tried- the code yet.  Been working on
> something for a client.
> 
> But that's the last real missing piece that I -need-.

Noted.  There's actually 3 or 4 things I'd like the systray thing to
do...

> > I would make it require a simple signature on the packets, I think, so
> > it was harder to screw with.
> 
> What kind of signature?  Something protocol-specific, or something that you
> install as a string in a config file on each machine?  Or more akin to gpg
> signing, and toss it if it doesn't match the message?

The last 2 are likely good enough; it's bored people I want to protect
against; if the criminals are on the LAN, you have deeper problems.

> > Per site price point?
> 
> Off the top of my head?
> 
> $150 for up to 150 machines at a site, $0.50/machine for each machine over
> 150, in blocks of 10 machines.  Just a guess--nothing really backing that
> pricing besides the fact that $1/machine sounds reasonable.  If you have
> other suggestions, I'm open to them.

Our sites are fairly small.

> Assuming I do it and it works up to my expectations (ie., it's polished,
> has no real bugaboos or irreconcilable eccentricities, etc. that make it
> undesirable).  And the Alt-TAB listing is the last one of those of which I
> know I need to address from a design standpoint.

I'm pretty sure there's some API call to hide yourself.

As you say, though, going all systray might do it, though I've seen
programs that do both.  Gnucleus knows how to do this, and I think it's
GPL...

Cheers,
-- jra
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