I'm teaching a 500-level Adv. Operating Systems this spring, and have a fair amount of leeway in the material - I typically try to emphasise distributed computing - I wonder if something like this could fit in, at least as a prototype. Emphasis on portability..... seems like a bit of a bear to distribute control of vic and rat but, if we in the class worry more about getting control signals between the various machines, and someone else worries about getting them "into" the application, it just might be interesting. Robert Olson wrote:

That's precisely what I'm thinking. Audio levels & control available per-mic, aggregate outgoing, aggregate incoming, and per-site incoming; fine tuning of video, placement, etc etc.

--bob

At 05:21 PM 7/26/2001 -0600, Don Morton wrote:

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That would be a great thing if someone wanted to do it. It's not hard, just a fairly large amount of detail to cope with to get it useful & right. There are other reasons for doing just htat, including enabling hte creation of a unified control panel application.

Am I reading this correctly? Are you envisioning a single control panel for vic, rat, gentner, etc., all to maybe run on control machine? Strikes me as a wonderful thought (if that's what you were thinking) and maybe something I might want to add into my Research Experience for Undergraduates proposal (the other thing is a distributed PDF viewer so we're not restricted to Power Point in our presentations).