Several subjects.

["Arne Chr.Jorgensen" <instel-at-online.no>]

Hi All,

1. Dan :

Sounds great if you could host some websites,  - How did you do
this ?
I will come with a few ideas a bit later.

2.  Matt:

You expressed this to me before when we were in touch about the
TDCAD programs.  You don't have to worry about the
time difference, as my brother always have said, - Arnie have
never left the american time zone :) I have made day into night,
and vice versa.   Your problem may be that your typing is a bit
slow ?
Are you too afraid of spelling errors, or what ?  If so, - don't
be. ( easy to say :)
The other thing - there should be some word recognition programs,
so you could talk to the machine ?

3.  Ray:

Yes, a lot of pictures and drawings.

4.  Dan again:

I don't know the FTP Works, - but if you use Samba, there is
another packaged called "smbfs" -  samba file system.
You have smbmount, and clients etc.  You can mount your whole
Win98 machine under your linux system, and work with
it like you wish. You  copy files to and from as you like to.  You
may know this, you may not.  I just wondered why you should use an
FTP program.

WEBSITE:
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I will just come with a few ideas.  First I like the "Drop box"
they have on  metalwor - ? forgot where, but you know what I
mean.  Does anyone know how this is done ?
You could add a lot to this kind of setup. Say you had a page with
"thumbnail" pictures, or drawing boards, - they could even
represent each one of us, - you could download another ones - let
just say they were made by Xfig. Then add some
arrows, text or insert another figure and post it on your "little
blackboard thumbnail thing " - maybe with a flashing marker that
this has just been updated. Just underneath could be a text
"thumbnail" that would give what ever you would like to say.  This
would be a conference !

Then there could be chat lines, or we could do something else.
Say the same setup as above, but when you connect to your
ISP you get a dynamic IP address.  Well,  the site will also have
an address.  If you look at at web pages, you connect to a socket
"80" on that IP address.  Email, finger, ping, etc. uses other
sockets.  Okay, then we could write a our own system
on a not used socket address.  It would just receive a
notification like ping, but say you just send this once a minute.
In this little messages you have included the dynamic IP address
you have received from your ISP.  This will turn on "who is there
" on a page on this server. By clicking on this name, you connect
your system up to the others system.  If I had
made a /home/Matt on my machine, then Matt would receive a login
from my network.  We could link up our networks like this, and use
chat, - you name it, what ever. You could work on another's
machine, like it was your own. ( some time delay )  It would even
be possible for 10 users to write on the same program together !!
- yes, you would need some lock features, and stuff, - but it is
possible.

If you have voice, CuSeeMe or what ever, you could just link up.
The thing here is, - the connection will only be up for the
time you choose it to be.  No one log into your system, or start
it, if you are not on the "air" .  I have done this, but used
another telephone line, and told what IP address I had. But the
way I tell you  here, - you send it to the site, and others can
pick it from there ( in fact this is like AOL )  - the only thing
is that we could tailor things they way we would like to have it.
There is endless of options.

As I said,  a little program sends this messages each minute. If
the web site, don't get this, your name or alias will disappear
from the site page, - telling that you have logged off.

Here is something - made just as an example:  You have just made a
drawing and have a dxf file.  Well, you don't have a
dxf-to-gcode converter, but Matt has.  So, you check if he is
online, - if he is - then you log in,  sending the dxf through his
converter and receive the output. ( a stupid example, but still )
The other thing is, - if Matt would not mind, then
he could be online 24 hours.  At the website, a little daemon will
call his modem, fire up his machine, give you a login shell,
check your password, and you are in.  But not everyone would like
to have their computer system setup like this.

But let say, - I don't care about having a machine myself.  I just
- exchange the information I need to have - say Jon - machine my
part.

All this is very obvious, - the thing is,  a lot of things like
this could be tailored to suit what we would like, - shoot that is

what Linux is for :)

//ARNE