My Wishlist

Sometimes I come up with ideas that would be cool to implement, but I'm very often way too lazy or busy to do it myself. This page aims to list some of the ideas, so other people can implement them for me :-).

Feel free to mail me if you know of an implementation for some of my ideas.

Btw, the idea for a wishlist is itself an idea from my friend Peter Åstrand and his projects-page.

Software

[2002-01-02] A X window system application that syncs with Strip. That would make life much easier since you could copy-and-paste passwords but still have them with you when you're mobile.
Syncing with coldsync or gpilotd would suit me best.

Web sites

[2002-01-03] A place where people could enter their wishlists and collaborate in finding/creating suitable software.
Things you probably want:
- Categories or keywords for easy browsing
- Search possibilites, of course.
- Vote possibilities too indicate which idea would get most users if implemented.
- Possibility to mark an idea as a duplicate of another.
- Possibility to mark an idea as similar to another.
- Possibility to link to implementations.

Local stuff

[2002-01-28] A schedule collision finder for the schedule database here at Linköpings tekniska högskola.
It would be really neat if it got the coursecodes out of the LDAP database, and the schedules out of the schedule server based on the studentmail addresses of two or more people.

Wishes Fulfilled

[2002-01-23] The free backup software application.
A good backup software has a lot of features. For example:
- Streaming of several hosts data down to one tape at once.
- Streaming of one hosts data down to several tapes at once.
- Tape size should not limit the size of backed up partitions.
- Staging.
- Support for many platforms.
- Backup over the network, without using special ports - passing firewalls should be possible.
- Support for tape robots via an intelligent API.
- A fast index.
- Several ways of scrolling the index. Commandline, GUI and perhaps webbased?
- Ability to verify data written to tape.
- Possibility for users to read back their data.
- Good disaster recovery (i.e. only the tapes survived the fire..)
[2002-01-02] A filesystem, mountable from Linux, that uses the SFTP subsystem to speak to a SSH2-capable host, presenting the remote files just the way NFS and similar systems do.
This would enable remote filesystem access without much fuzz on the server side, and use the strong encryption/authentication of SSH.
However, it's probably not a good idea for enterprise solutions that need file-locking and concurrency protection.
Update: Check out sshfs of LUFS, it's exactly what I asked for

Update: Check out Bacula, since it fulfills most of the demands above.