Small Trivia last time we talked when I was working with an ISP(franchise of Mozcom) which was eons ago.
* Looking at rewriting iptraf in perl... to be portable. * He is not subscribed to this list. * When he discussed to me about iptraf from the start, told him why when when you can cobble different software to get the same functionality. Good thing he did not listen to me. :) regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Zak B. Elep <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]> > wrote: >> An old friend of mine, Gerard Java, wrote a piece of software that's >> literally in every Linux distribution - iptraf. I'm sure you've heard >> of it. >> >> Where is he now? in Canada. Because this country couldn't give him a >> comfortable-enough livelihood. So what did iptraf get him? I don't >> know. Andre Varon (andrelst) is also a friend of his. He's also in >> Canada. > > That takes me back. I used iptraf all the time, when I was maining > Debian/Ubuntu. It was very useful for tracking the rate at real time, > as opposed to other similar (Web) services like speedtest.net. Now > that I main OpenBSD, I use iftop instead, though I miss iptraf's other > features. > > I only once met Gerard, at the 2005 LinuxWorld. If I ever meet him > again, I'd buy him a beer or two for his great software. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
