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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Failsafe-Mode?  [Was] Re: KDE Locking up
From:       "Gary L. Greene, Jr." <greeneg () arklinux ! org>
Date:       2004-09-11 22:35:12
Message-ID: 200409111835.22067.greeneg () arklinux ! org
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On Saturday 11 September 2004 05:22 pm, Raimundo Bilbao wrote:
> On Saturday 11 September 2004 13:12, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> [...]
>
> > End-users aren't supposed to run bleeding-edge software.
> >
> > Uwe
>
> You are right, but I don't think only on bleeding-edge software errors.
> Many things can go wrong on a normal-user workstation and, if you think
> about it, is very annoying for someone who doesn't have the skills nor know
> how to solve it, need to face this kinds of troubles.
>
> I'm really think on some kind of asistive technology to solve some kinds of
> pattern-like problems, ugh, something like : "..Konqui has discovered that
> something goes wrong with your xxx, what do you want to do? ..", nothing
> new (in fact i vaguely remember something like this on "other" SO )  but
> can be really useful to my grandma ;-)
>
> Anyway, may the weekend be with us, and back on this again later ;-)
>
> Cheers
> mundo

I've been noodling with an idea like this for a while, it's essentially and 
expert system that takes current and past "trends" of the system's hardware 
and software into account and would ask the user what they would like to do 
to solve the problem. This AI-Administrator, as I've dubbed it in the write 
ups I'm doing, would then present teh options that best fit the situation and 
carry out these tasks with the help of pam.d to allow it system access with-
out needing the superuser password. Is this what you were talking about?

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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