Re: Pleasantness [was: Re: Sound effects]

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 13 Dec 2008, at 09:22, Ross Burton wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 19:08 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> > Then we can build on top of that to provide locations so you can
> > switch the usage profile, the proxy configuration, VPN settings and
> > other stuff basing on where you sit (and get bonus points for
> > detecting locations basing on stuff like current wireless network).
> > Anyway that's a whole different story and does not belong in this
> > thread.
>
> This sounds a lot like Marco Polo for MacOS, which I started cloning  
> as
> Shackleton (http://burtonini.com/bzr/shackleton/).

And FWIW, it's also what NWAM does (well, will do shortly) in  
OpenSolaris.
<http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/p1spec/Location_Spec/>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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