I feel like working on a frequency algorithm... I mean, what's the point of an agent running if there's nothing to check? The frequency of checking up on something should be somewhat proportional to the times something actually does happen. If I get e-mail just about once a week, then I'm pretty sure my e-mail checking agent should check for e-mail at some frequency a little bit less than a week (to pre-empt the event, obviously). The frequency has to shoot up when something happens in the recent past, but otherwise it should learn from event history... Cuz pinging a resource every two seconds is like futile. But I guess, for immediancy's sake (is that a word?), that will have to be it... Kinda sucks.
Oh, anyway, the thing that I wanted to make was something to synchronize bookmarks between Internet Explorer and Mozilla... I'm sure something like this exists, but I just wish all good things would come in a nice well-formed Microsoft-based package. Fuck that shoddy Visual Basic shit.
Posted by Mark Canlas at December 21, 2002 01:51 PM