OK! That might be a more rewarding project! At least ILUG-CAL members can
chat or xchg online messages as I suspect , a majority login after 11 PM
and we can do this from Win9x only for the time being. However, since I know
C best, I might have to code it in C first , and later in java so that we
can make it run anywhere. Any Java experts out there?
Shanker
----- Original Message -----
From: Indranil Das Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] ATTACK on Linux- ZDNN The Linux myth
> Shankar,
>
> Please run a query with the string "IRC Servers" at freshmeat.net...you
> will come up with quite a bit of info on what is there already....I think
> it would be more interesting to work on the Instant Messaging Server and
> client idea we discussed on the phone....I will try to see if I can cook
up
> some specs for this...you do the same and then we can compare notes.
>
> --Indra.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Shanker R Swaminathan wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 19:59:39 +0530
> > From: Shanker R Swaminathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] ATTACK on Linux- ZDNN The Linux myth
> >
> > I Agree that the article is an uninformed bit of junk as far as
benchmarking
> > is concerned as even sketchy statistics have not been given making
t( the
> > article) worthless in it's present form. However , I draw the line at
> > reputable guys like ZDNET , the publishers of PC Magazine pasting Linux
as
> > a myth on their front page .
> > Perhaps I was hasty before as I just saw red! However, does Linux have
any
> > IRC Server ?Russell, can You point me to the appropriate docs ,if one
does
> > not exist.At least I shall start work on making one, albeit a simple one
> > under GPL. To my mind , that would be a constructive way of replying to
> > criticism.
> > Shanker
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Indranil Das Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 2:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] ATTACK on Linux- ZDNN The Linux myth
> >
> >
> > > Don't get worked up.... the article is a brilliant piece of uninformed
> > > writing... never before have I come across someone benchmarking an OS
> > > based on what OS runs IRC servers...the "article" looked more like
> > > troll to me .... I would suggest that you take it easy...its not worth
> > > the effort.
> > >
> > > --Indra.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Shanker R Swaminathan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:58:31 +0530
> > > > From: Shanker R Swaminathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: Linux User Group India Calcutta Chapter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > Subject: [ilug-cal] ATTACK on Linux- ZDNN The Linux myth
> > > >
> > > > Any responses for this article? How about posting them to this site
> > itself
> > > > ? Does Linux really have the weaknesses as outlined here ? If so
what
> > are
> > > > the fixes?
> > > > Shanker
> > > >
> > > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2338326,00.html
> > > >
> > >
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