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Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: Mugshot and the Online Desktop??
From: "Brian Gupta" <brian.gupta () gmail ! com>
Date: 2007-04-30 4:09:33
Message-ID: 5b5090780704292109q4b5c0615o1ea9d7e4e707cacf () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 4/30/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta@gmail.com > wrote:
>
> Features of Mugshot, that are implementation specific: (All three would
> need to be customized for Solaris).
>
> Package management
> Most popular application reporting (Most popular packages)
> Desktop client.
>
> -Brian
>
> On 4/28/07, MC < rac@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> >
> > From: http://log.ometer.com/2007-04.html#3
> >
> > It boils down to central online storage for all your data, and programs
> > on your client to interact with the data. Which is, in some form or
> > another, the way things will eventually be.
> >
> > I think the key thing is less about building the PC applications, and
> > more about who stores the data and how they do it. Even though Gnome vs KDE
> > gives me little hope for humanity, building menus isn't really a big
> > deal. They're just a tiny window into a big world which, in this guy's
> > case, uses his (or Red Hat's?) Mugshot.org web app.
> >
> > As a side note, ideally every programmed solution would have an open and
> > standard API so that every component along the chain of users and providers
> > could interact well. In that utopia we'd be able to worry about how we use
> > services (back to Gnome vs KDE), rather than how different services interact
> > (do my Ubuntu and Windows desktops access my Facebook friend emails the same
> > way, and do they both share the same list of most frequently used
> > applications, and do those applications include web and client apps, and how
> > does my handheld device access all this, and is it safe to store my
> > documents on service X when service Y can't access it, and...). Since only
> > half the population gets along with themselves at any given time, it takes
> > some special magic to get good standards set and used. So the usual
> > solution to the above problem is dictatorship, which presents its own
> > problem in the form of inter-dictatorship-operability.
> >
> >
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Forgot to attach audio presentation of Mugshot:<br><br>Audio for streaming and \
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target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.archive.org/details/NYLUG_2007_04_18_General_Meeting</a><br><br><br><div><span \
class="gmail_quote">On 4/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Gupta</b> <<a \
href="mailto:brian.gupta@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return \
top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> brian.gupta@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid \
rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Features of \
Mugshot, that are implementation specific: (All three would need to be customized for \
Solaris). <br><br>Package management<br>Most popular application reporting (Most \
popular packages)<br>Desktop client.<br><span><br>
-Brian</span><div><span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/28/07, <b \
class="gmail_sendername">MC</b> <<a href="mailto:rac@eastlink.ca" target="_blank" \
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> rac@eastlink.ca</a>> \
wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, \
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
From: <a href="http://log.ometer.com/2007-04.html#3" target="_blank" onclick="return \
top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://log.ometer.com/2007-04.html#3</a><br><br>It \
boils down to central online storage for all your data, and programs on your client \
to interact with the data. Which is, in some form or another, the way \
things will eventually be. <br><br>I think the key thing is less about building the \
PC applications, and more about who stores the data and how they do \
it. Even though Gnome vs KDE gives me little hope for humanity, building \
menus isn't really a big deal. They're just a tiny window into a \
big world which, in this guy's case, uses his (or Red Hat's?) <a \
href="http://Mugshot.org" target="_blank" onclick="return \
top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Mugshot.org</a> web app.<br><br>As a side \
note, ideally every programmed solution would have an open and standard API so that \
every component along the chain of users and providers could interact \
well. In that utopia we'd be able to worry about how we use services \
(back to Gnome vs KDE), rather than how different services interact (do my Ubuntu and \
Windows desktops access my Facebook friend emails the same way, and do they both \
share the same list of most frequently used applications, and do those applications \
include web and client apps, and how does my handheld device access all this, and is \
it safe to store my documents on service X when service Y can't access it, \
and...). Since only half the population gets along with themselves at any \
given time, it takes some special magic to get good standards set and \
used. So the usual solution to the above problem is dictatorship, which \
presents its own problem in the form of inter-dictatorship-operability. \
<br><br><br>This message posted from <a href="http://opensolaris.org" target="_blank" \
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">opensolaris.org</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>desktop-discuss \
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