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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:57:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eca0bec1ac0567a99947c13e6d7af6de@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d50d7d460907230605i7db08c3cg34f276691a9bf03c@mail.gmail.com>

> Evernote, for example, would be easier to
> render to the user and mount as a filesystem than Google maps.

You are right, google maps is much more a simple transaction
based system, I cannot see how it would fit usefully into
a file system hierarchy.

It does not require a web browser however.

assuming you have signed up and put your key in /lib/gmapkey
you can see exactly where I am at with:

/n/sources/contrib/steve/rc/gmap -s eastleigh road, havant

[credit to erik for the much needed polishing of this tool]

-Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-23 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-22 22:44 Jason Catena
2009-07-22 23:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-22 23:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-07-22 23:56   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-23  0:22   ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-23  0:47   ` Jason Catena
2009-07-23  9:48     ` C H Forsyth
2009-07-23 10:16       ` [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern Richard Miller
2009-07-23 23:49         ` Fernan Bolando
2009-07-23 23:57           ` John Floren
2009-07-24  0:08           ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-07-24  0:24             ` Fernan Bolando
2009-07-24  4:12               ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-07-24 16:14           ` maht
2009-07-24 16:41             ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-24 16:42             ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-24 17:16             ` [9fans] (no subject) erik quanstrom
2009-07-23 13:05       ` [9fans] Does "as little software as possible" include a modern browser? Jason Catena
2009-07-23 13:57         ` Steve Simon [this message]
2009-07-23 14:02           ` erik quanstrom

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