I hope your exam went well. What are you studying?
Re IRC, I have to confess that I don't really get it. I think this is because:
1) I'm 46 years old.
2) I'm fond of talking in real time, and find chat incredibly frustrating
because of the slowness of it and the "noise", especially when many people
are in a "room" who are unknown to each other.
3) If I'm going to multiprocess I don't want one of the processes to be
live chat... I can't keep the momentum of a conversation going. And
multiprocessing is the only way I can tolerate the slowness of chat. :-)
However, I know that many people like it a lot (including some middle aged
women like me), and so I think this is just a personal preference.
Maybe you can talk about chat in your presentation...
Laura
At 6:59 PM 1/23/98, Toni Alatalo wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Laura Breeden wrote:
>
>Thank you for the quick reply and encouraging comments!
>
>> life as things go on. We very much want a different perspective than that
>> of the "founders" of the Internet! You sound as if you have thoughtful and
>
>That's definitely one fascinating aspect of isoc .. that Vint and the
>others are still around, dancing on the same floor in KL
><URL:http://www.netppl.fi/~antont/inet97/inet/vintdance.jpg> yet being so
>different from us.
>
>They build the net so that it was there already for us to use.
>They are engineers, we don't know what to be.
>
>I'm off for weekend now, still another exam on Monday but then I'll
>concentrate on this.
>
>BTW: Do you know IRC? What about it? Probably not much good .. but
>it's dominating my thoughts anyway. I think it's the Internet on the
>Internet and a true people network where things happen and get done.
>For example now that Netscape announced giving the source code away for
>free the guys on irc/linuxnet agreed in 30 seconds to register
>openscape.org and are discussing further development at the moment.
>
><|:#linux> One Microsoft executive called Netscape's
><|:#linux> move to make the Navigator source code
><|:#linux> widely available "odd." Sam Jadallah, vice
><|:#linux> president of Microsoft's Organization
><|:#linux> Customer Unit, said, "Consumers want to
><|:#linux> know what they are getting. They like one
><|:#linux> version. They want to know a McDonald's
><|:#linux> hamburger is a McDonald's hamburger
><|:#linux> wherever they go." Jadallah also noted that,
><|:#linux> "Whenever source code is out and gets
><|:#linux> distributed, things can get fragmented.
><|:#linux> That's what happened with Unix and
><|:#linux> Linux."
>*** | is now known as Sopwith
><MwC:#linux> MS to buy BT??? Surely a rumour.
><ddm:#Linux> Idiot.
>* Sopwith:#linux LOL
><Digi:#linux> Sopwith: HAHAHAHA
><mord:#linux> mwc: they'd be stupid to do that
><Digi:#linux> Give me his email address :)
><Thaddeus:#linux> that's just _sad_
><_Anarchy_:#linux> Sop: nod.. MS are playing the free == unsupported line
>as corporate policy I think
>
>Sure they are technical but also extremely social - most of the talk is
>about people and the companies they work for. I guess that kind of rumours
>are usually about satisfying social needs.
>
>+ an + ~ Toni ~ : (t . !
