I have thought about doing this off and on for years. I always assumed that the easiest way to do it would be to have a seperate app read the serial info and control the cursor via standard X events. There might be a problem with sending mouse clicks to other programs (cross-app events are specially marked and ignored for security reasons in some or most apps). This could be solved in a number of simple ways.
I know from past experience that too many hacker wannabees think that stealing accounts or bumping people or other pranks is cool rather than learning to program, which IS cool. Of course/./* is well into the latter category and didn't need the pre-emptive warning. Unfortunately my oldest son falls into the former category for the moment, sadly.
If you would have looked at the resume, you would have seen at least one huge addition to instant messaging that I came up with, architected and designed, skunk-worked, managed as an early project, implemented, had 25000 beta users, and ultimately watched die because of abuse fears...
I wrote the first BuddyList server for AOL several years ago. (see my resume at http://sdw.st).
I've been watching the evolution of Presence Indicators with a lot of interest, of course, and I like some of the decisions so far here. I have some ideas that I'm thinking of persuing on my own that I may be able to share with everyone soon.
(Don't ask me about AOL internals because obviously I have a strictly professional and ethical obligation to uphold non-disclosure contracts.)
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I have thought about doing this off and on for years. I always assumed that the easiest way to do it would be to have a seperate app read the serial info and control the cursor via standard X events. There might be a problem with sending mouse clicks to other programs (cross-app events are specially marked and ignored for security reasons in some or most apps). This could be solved in a number of simple ways.
sdw
I know from past experience that too many hacker wannabees think that stealing accounts or bumping people or other pranks is cool rather than learning to program, which IS cool. Of course /./* is well into the latter category and didn't need the pre-emptive warning. Unfortunately my oldest son falls into the former category for the moment, sadly.
If you would have looked at the resume, you would have seen at least one huge addition to instant messaging that I came up with, architected and designed, skunk-worked, managed as an early project, implemented, had 25000 beta users, and ultimately watched die because of abuse fears...
sdw
I wrote the first BuddyList server for AOL several years ago. (see my resume at http://sdw.st).
I've been watching the evolution of Presence Indicators with a lot of interest, of course, and I like some of the decisions so far here. I have some ideas that I'm thinking of persuing on my own that I may be able to share with everyone soon.
(Don't ask me about AOL internals because obviously I have a strictly professional and ethical obligation to uphold non-disclosure contracts.)
sdw