September 2003 Entries
You've probably heard of distributed computing, but what about a distributed OS?
This is something I have been thinking about for years. Pretty much all Corporations have a LAN. Machines on those LANs are largely unused (when looking at processor time). What if you could take all that computing power and utilize it across the enterprise?
I am making a toolbar and I think to myself, Icon extraction... That would be a cool feature, should be simple to implement... 2 days later...
It never ceases to amaze me that Microsoft can leave out something so simple that they know lots of developers are going to need. Do they do this on purpose to support the aftermarket tool builder?
I always have at least one console window open, sometimes several.
cmd.exe is pretty limited in what you can do with it visually... You can't even set transparency. I recently found console.exe on sourceforge. This handy little frontend for your COMSPEC will enable some nice visual effects (including transparency) so running rolling pings or some other console app in the background seems to take less space on the desktop.
I recently discovered some really interesting shell replacements.
MobyDock and Aston also of note is geoShell
Some qualifiers... I use IMAP exclusively, I had certain odd problems with Outlook, I wanted a run everywhere solution.
I have tried several others, not to mention names, but all the top 10...
Enter Thunderbird.
Blogroll Me!
Blog Search Engine
Copyright © 2003-2004 H. Steele Price, IV -
All opinions are my own, not necessarily those of my employer, your mother, or any government agency.