irc/usenet?

[Fairlight]

Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 02:50:20AM -0400,
John Esak blabbed on about:
> 
> I have been working on them (the server providers) building a client/plugin
> for Netscape. Currently, the betas I've tested have not worked well. It is
> not a big priority for them... I don't know why. But it will happne. It
> would be great if some of you Unix types could join in periodically.

What are they writing it in?  Is it Java or C based?  Never knew Java,
despite having an outdated copy of SunSoft's "Core Java" here.  And C...I'm
trying to cut back.  :)

I fail to see the -need- for it to be browser based.  I mean, the
mini-browser can be nice, but it's wholly unnecessary to launch it as a
plugin.  You could write it in whatever, and whenever a URL comes in,
launch whatever browser you configure it to use on $DISPLAY and *poof*,
same result.  Well, it might get a little cumbersome if someone was
sync-browsing through 20 screens, unless you can force one instance of
mozilla or netscape or whatnot to handle all the requests.  But by and
large, that part of it could be skipped for *nix, and it could be done with
an entirely different interface that needn't even be GUI.  It's handy, but
it's the least important part, IMHO.

Just a few thoughts.  Pass them on if you think they'll help.

> JP has bitten the bullet and runs an XP client... BUT, he insists on VNC'ing
> to the box from an X-term and running the room that way. :-)

That's one way to do it, but you'd have to have it -really- loud, have an
RF headset, or have both servers in the same room with local speakers,
unless I'm missing some mysterious element of the picture.

> Die hards, die hard.

Is there any other way to die?  If so, please send details--I like to plan
ahead, and my pain threshhold is pretty low.  :)

mark->
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