From: Abigail Date: 22:14 on 26 May 2005 Subject: Peppercorn --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I do a lot of development for a small box, which doesn't have its own keyboard or monitor.=20 So I use a "management card" (whose vendor I shall not mention, because I already did so in the Subject line) - which allows you to control the box remotely. Using a web based interface, you can turn the box on and off, reset it, and, using a Java applet, it gives you a remote console as well. It gives you what's on the console, and allows you to use the keyboard (and in theory the mouse as well). Nice principle. But, it being software, there's hate. I hated the old card because the applet allowed you to type all characters, except the '-' and the '_'. To type a dash or an underscore, you had to pull down a menu and select a "soft keyboard" in some submenu. This popped up a small window consisting of a keyboard with tiny keys. In this window, you could select the dash. Hate. But now a days, I use a newer card. It doesn't have the problem I mentioned above. It has its own hate. The box I work on, I reboot a lot. And the bloody applet thinks "Hey, the box is booting, let's grab the focus". But don't think that grabbing the focus back is the end of it, oh no. Three seconds in the boot process, it grabs the focus again. And a few seconds later, it grabs it a third time. Three times. For each reboot. Which I can easily do 30 times a day. Hate. Hate. Hate. Abigail --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCljwcBOh7Ggo6rasRAv/8AJ9y1bXfyFo0+gDSq7vZ8j5e/EVNkACgsFYV a3pfc9jhjzlkyoPpQabgSI4= =qpga -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5I6of5zJg18YgZEa--
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