So here I am trying to make a quick little sidebar gadget. Nothing fancy, I just want to be able to tell if a specific, named, firewall rule is active, and either present a button to disable it (if it’s there) or a button to enable it (if it isn’t). This can be done handily through the command line, but requires elevation. So I search around a bit. Turns out I’m the only person on the face of the Earth that actually wants a gadget to prompt for elevation. Turns out a sidebar gadget cannot do that directly. Guess I’ll have to kludge it.
I am about to write a post from mobile device plugin because nobody has written a good one yet.
I must admit that the idea of composing text that I’d share with the public on the tiny little almost-keyboard on my phone strikes me as ridiculous. I suppose somebody with a Blueberry or iPhone would feel differently, but I suppose I’m just old fashioned when it comes to text input. A major factor in the purchase of my laptop was its keyboard, which is remarkably similar to a real, honest-to-God made-for-human-fingers keyboard as opposed to those little dinky keys that were ergonomically optimized for 12-year-old girls. But I ramble…