Al Hoang

I’ve been looking to find something that I could use to send posts to
Manila without having to login to the Web interface. I work MUCH
faster with vi than I do with a web interface.

Here are three links to I found really handy for getting you
started if you can program Python (I listed them in preferred reading order):

Flip Page Tutorial

Addingi to a Manila Home Page

The Manila-RPC Interface

After reading these I was able to play with Python via the interactive
interpreter and figure out what I needed to call to make a post remotely
to Manila. Tres cool.

Seems AT&T Labs which was carved from Bell Labs has almost halved their
number of researchers. The parallels between this and the Xerox ParcPlace
exodus seem high. I doubt the research branch will ever recover from
losing so much talent.

However, at the same time if your bottom line sinks to the red and keeps
sinking and research hasn’t been able to keep things afloat I can see
why you would let them go.

One thing that I find interesting is that of the researchers that
split to the four winds. Some of them might become wildly successful.
How come they don’t band together to create a fund for basic science
research if it’s so important?

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