Re: Nocat List

Bill Lober wrote:
> I think this is my first post in...  5 years...  And, basically, its
> to say thanks to Rob.
While I appreciate the sentiment, it's really Schuyler who you should
thank. He was the more than the lead developer for the project; we would
talk about technical solutions to the various problems over lunch (token
necklace!) and he'd have it coded the next day. The guy is a perl diva
and a brilliant coder. I just kicked him in the butt to get him started.  =)
> Still have the inbox - don't have a T-shirt (Darn!  T-shirts...  Who
> knew...!)
Ah, the t-shirts. We ran out of them ages ago, and mine are all but worn
out now.

Thanks again for the kind stories.

--Rob
> We ALMOST were able to deploy NoCat throughout the Health Sciences
> complex at the University of Washington back in the year 2002?  2003? 
> I forget, but it was a long time ago.   I think we had a version of it
> working with our campus-wide, cookie-based authentication system, and
> we gave a talk to the Campus Technology group, with that vision of a
> broad deployment.
>
> It was well received. Then, they crushed us like bugs.
>
> Still it was a great diversion from informatics research, and solved a
> real problem for us. (One year we went on the road, and set up a
> non-authenticating, anonymous, portal at a national conference, both
> to share the hotel's Internet access, and because we could...)
>
> Now, of course, central campus computing provides excellent
> authenticated wireless virtually campus-wide, including the medical
> center and health sciences.  Life goes on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
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> Bill Lober, MD
> Associate Professor
> Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health
> University of Washington
>