changeset 24244:1139bb78dcfa

*** empty log message ***

--- a/etc/tasks.texi	Mon Feb 01 15:39:28 1999 +0000
+++ b/etc/tasks.texi	Mon Feb 01 22:58:10 1999 +0000
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @setfilename tasks.info
 @settitle GNU Task List
 @c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:
-@set lastupdate January 17, 1999
+@set lastupdate February  1, 1999
 @c %**end of header
 
 @setchapternewpage off
@@ -281,6 +281,10 @@
 @item
 An implementation of CIFS, the ``Common Internet File System,'' for the
 HURD.  This protocol is an offshoot of SMB.
+
+@item
+Support (in Linux?) for dumping the non-textual contents of an SVGA
+console.
 @end itemize
 
 @node Extensions, X Windows Projects, Kernel Projects, Top
@@ -391,8 +395,16 @@
 
 @itemize @bullet
 @item
-A web-based front end for @code{mon}, so that it can do the
-job of Big Brother (which is not free software).
+A web-based front end for the system and network monitoring program 
+@code{mon}, so that it can do the job of Big Brother (which is not free 
+software).  Some other modifications to mon are probably necessary.
+@code{mon} is considered to be at least as good as Big Brother except
+for the lack of a good Web-based display to make it easy to scan the
+status at a glance.
+
+It might be good to add a few other features to @code{mon}, including
+``dialup'' hosts: systems that are monitored, but for which the lack of
+any reply is not considered a failure.
 
 @item
 A teleconferencing program which does the job of CU-SeeMe (which is,
@@ -439,6 +451,7 @@
 send them to @email{gnu@@gnu.org}.
 
 @itemize @bullet
+@ignore OpenBIOS is doing this
 @item
 A simple PC BIOS.  On most new PCs, the BIOS is stored in writable
 memory (misleadingly known as ``flash ROM'').  In order to have a wholly
@@ -451,6 +464,7 @@
 diagnostics that an ordinary BIOS does (though it would be useful to do
 some of them).  However, there may be a need to configure certain data
 in the computer in a way that is specific to each model of computer.
+@end ignore
 
 @item
 A free program that can transfer files on a serial line
@@ -519,6 +533,9 @@
 @item
 High-quality music compression software.
 (Talk with @email{phr@@netcom.com} for relevant suggestions.)
+Unfortunately we cannot implement the popular MP3 format
+due to patents, so this job includes working out some other
+non-patented format and compression method.
 
 @item
 A program to play sound distributed in ``Real Audio'' format.