Hi group,

I am a second year computer science student and I will soon need to
choose my project for my final year.

As I really want to do something with UNIX rather than Windows, I was
thinking of doing a php web frontend to administer UNIX.
Do this sound like a good project or does anybody have any other
suggestions ?

Thanks in advance,
Ritchie

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ritchie wrote:
> I am a second year computer science student and I will soon need to
> choose my project for my final year.

I think you may be better off delaying this decision until after you
have gone through some upper level courses.  See what interests you
within the coursework you have taken and proceed from there.  Your
advisor/professor at that time would also be able to provide
suggestions and direction.  It is just too early to make such a
decision now.
-Scott
--
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/nightlin/www/

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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Scott Nightlinger wrote:
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> ritchie wrote: 

Oh, I didn't notice the "final year" part when I first read this.
To the OP: my final year project was to design and build a computer
(from scratch; none of this nancy-boy PC kit stuff), and write the
OS for it--in 65C02 assembler.

Yes, it works, and yes, I still have it 10 years later.  (And I
got a distinction for it.)  Later, I ended up writing a simulator
of it, in C.

PS *Real* UNIX admins don't need no steenkin' web-based front ends!

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
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Scott Nightlinger wrote:
> ritchie wrote:
> 
>
>
> I think you may be better off delaying this decision until after you
> have gone through some upper level courses.  See what interests you
> within the coursework you have taken and proceed from there.  Your
> advisor/professor at that time would also be able to provide suggestions
> and direction.  It is just too early to make such a decision now.
> -Scott

Methinks you're experiencing a cross-Atlantic impedence mismatch!

Cheers,
--ag

--
Artie Gold -- Austin, Texas

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ritchie <ritchie_s01@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I am a second year computer science student and I will soon need to
> choose my project for my final year.
>
> As I really want to do something with UNIX rather than Windows, I was
> thinking of doing a php web frontend to administer UNIX.  Do this
> sound like a good project or does anybody have any other suggestions ?

- Floating-point support in Bash
- Associative array in Bash

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution/training/migration, Thin-client

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William Park wrote:

> - Floating-point support in Bash

This would be useful :-)

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humbubba@smart.net
>Hi group,
>
>I am a second year computer science student and I will soon need to
>choose my project for my final year.
>
>As I really want to do something with UNIX rather than Windows, I was
>thinking of doing a php web frontend to administer UNIX.
>Do this sound like a good project or does anybody have any other
>suggestions ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Ritchie

See my polling station script in another thread. The same thing with
touchscreen support would be nice. Closed-source is simply unacceptable
for a polling booth.

Rick Hohensee
Precision Mojo Engineer

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humbubba@smart.net
>humbubba@smart.net 
>
>See my polling station script in another thread. The same thing with
>touchscreen support would be nice. Closed-source is simply unacceptable
>for a polling booth.

Election 2004 is a historic opportunity for open-source software.

>
>
Rick Hohensee
>Precision Mojo Engineer
>
>

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Rich Teer wrote:

> PS *Real* UNIX admins don't need no steenkin' web-based front ends!

And the others already have webmin 

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Hi,

Just wanted to say a quick thank you to all who replied.
Some really great suggestions.

Thanks again,
Ritchie

r@cLIeNUX. (cLIeNUX user) wrote in message news:<108m8ioso5l1j0f@corp.supernews.com>...[vbco
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> humbubba@smart.net 
>
> Election 2004 is a historic opportunity for open-source software.
> 
>  Rick Hohensee 

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