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Brynet-Inc wrote:It's clear Dex is suffering from network induced insanity

Watch what you are saying. That people think different isn't an excuse to call them insane. Actually, coming from you its not worth a penny, as you say the same of all Microsoft users.

The earth is flat, remember

Combuster wrote:The earth is flat, remember

And sits on Elephants & Tortoises.

Solidus117 wrote:

Combuster wrote:The earth is flat, remember

And sits on Elephants & Tortoises.

And here I thought a penguin named Tux held it up for all eternity.
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You learn something new everyday.

Speaking of Online Desktops, some GNOME developers are apparently pushing for the integration of web apps on the desktop.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea on their end...

I think Dex is talking about a micro-kernel, that is extremely abstracted in such a way that anything can be piped over anything... (device I/O, interrupts, memory access on the page level) over FTP/UDP/TCP/802.*, even piped back into something and back out the other side.

Something very similar to what Candy was working on at one time. Just a really, High Flex Modular Operating System.

Just as long as there is a contained mechanism to do the conversion/translation and piping of the information.

Kevin McGuire wrote:I think Dex is talking about a micro-kernel, that is extremely abstracted in such a way that anything can be piped over anything... (device I/O, interrupts, memory access on the page level) over FTP/UDP/TCP/802.*, even piped back into something and back out the other side.

Something very similar to what Candy was working on at one time. Just a really, High Flex Modular Operating System.

Just as long as there is a contained mechanism to do the conversion/translation and piping of the information.

I know, but the the topic was operating systems integrated with the web.

Kevin McGuire wrote:Something very similar to what Candy was working on at one time. Just a really, High Flex Modular Operating System.

Hey! I'm still working on it!

Seriously, what's wrong (apart from being brain damaged) in having a this client (of some sort, maybe browser) and a bunch of servers on which your files and apps are stored and you can make some heavy not-so-response-critical apps run their core classes on the server itself (maybe RMI or something) and skinny apps running at the client?

It certainly attracts people for whom a computer is just a magic machine where you can author word files/spreadsheets/presentations and browse the Internet and access e-mail.

Nominating prashant for "necromancer of the year".

Yay! prashant, way to go!

gotta hand him the magnificient golden strawberry of thread necromancy. (thx solar for that one)

Bad prashant, you shall be banished to working with nothing but a hex editor on minix and a floppy drive to do your development with!

Zap!

Troy Martin wrote:Bad prashant, you shall be banished to working with nothing but a hex editor on minix and a floppy drive to do your development with!

Zap!

Hypocrite, you yourself recently "resurrected" a thread...

Troy Martin wrote:Bad prashant, you shall be banished to working with nothing but a hex editor on minix and a floppy drive to do your development with!

Am I the only one thinking that would be a fun little exercise?

Brynet-Inc wrote:

Troy Martin wrote:Bad prashant, you shall be banished to working with nothing but a hex editor on minix and a floppy drive to do your development with!

Zap!

Hypocrite, you yourself recently "resurrected" a thread...

It was only a few months old...

I've resurrected old threads by accident when searching through the archives and seeing something and had the urge to reply.