Boredom Strikes Student Programmer

[drewmccormack at mac.com (Drew McCormack)]

I was trying to setup sendmail the other day, and majoromo to host a 
mailing list. This was all command line, and a bit of a nightmare. It 
seems to me that this is something lots of people will want, to 
accompany the apache web server that is already built into mac os x.
How about making an easy-to-use, aqua-beautiful front-end for sendmail, 
which is already included in mac os x, but not activated? And when you 
have done that, how about a majoromo or equivalent?
(If you want a good example of a front-end for an ugly unix tool, check 
out Brickhouse. It is a front end for ipfw, and is great.)

Drew McCormack

On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 08:16 AM, The Amazing Llama wrote:

> I have an internship at a company in town that only programs for 
> Windows, but normally I don't care because I do scripting work, and I 
> have classes in which I do lots of programming on my beloved PowerBook, 
> candy interface and all.
>
> This semester I'm in lots of Computer Science classes with no 
> programming: databases (Access-- ick), Hardware, and Programming 
> Languages (which should count, but doesn't, because we learn how to 
> parse lists in Prolog, which is not programming, it's dabbling).
>
> And at work, I've recently been drafted to write... COM. Double ick. 
> Today the thought struck me that recently I've been programming more 
> for Windows than Mac. Triple ick.
>
> Plus, I really want to learn Cocoa and Objective-C. I've got the 
> basics, but I won't be able to say that I actually know them until I've 
> done a big project.
>
> The only problem is, I have nothing to write. Nada. Zilch. Zippo.
>
> The search for ideas starts. I look at download.com for the top Windows 
> apps, to see if there's something that we should have on the mac that 
> isn't there. But the top five were all file-sharing clones. We have 
> enough of those.
>
> So I decided to help my community and look at sourceforge. Great idea, 
> but most of the stuff there is either UNIX ports, which I have no 
> interest in, or done, like Fire. Or yet another file-sharing clone.
>
> So I decided to ask you guys. What's the silly little shareware program 
> you always wanted, but never actually found or wrote? What would make 
> you happy to see on VersionTracker? What would you love to have to show 
> off to your Windows-using friends?
>
> Think Applications. Think amazing. Think different. :)
>
> 				-The Amazing Llama <tallama at mac dot com>
> "Life is like an exploded clown. It's really funny until you figure out 
> what just happened."
>
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