gardening on IRC real-time chat

[dstvns]

Hello,

Just an occasional reminder that there is real-time chat on the Undernet IRC network. You can access it with windows by using the program mIRC, available at

then using any available Undernet server. Once connected to the server type

/join #gardening

There aren't many people except during the evening hours of north america, but hopefully that will change. Hope to see you soon!

Dan

[paghat]

I do, now that I live somewhere where they're not painted shut.

-paghat the ratgirl

[Salty Thumb]

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote in news:phaedrine [e-mail]:

I imagine there are IRC client for Power Macs. If not you could probably use one for Unix, assuming you have MacOS 10 or so.

-- Salty

[dstvns]

BitchX for unix -

macIRC for MAC -

Dan

[Noydb]

That's okay, Phaedrine. I'm sure he meant well. He just doesn't 'get it'. Just use KSIRC or XChat or even the Bourne Again IRC client (commandline IRC ... woo hoo! Geekicity!)

to Seimens, Linux will have 20% market share on the desktop by

2008. Apache (also open source software) already enjoys a steady 60+% share of web servers. Somewhere in the mix, people will stop simply 'assuming' Winders. It's not a safe assumption anymore.

Freshmeat shows 569 listings for IRC servers, bots, relays and clients. There are plenty to choose from and, generally speaking, they all work just fine. mIRC is okay software ... but it isn't "the only show in town".

Bill

[Noydb]

Salty, What makes you think she's using a Mac? There are more Linux desktop s than there are Macs. Ask my wife ... she loves it! Linux is #2 on the d esktop now ... and growing nicely, thank you.

Bill

[Salty Thumb]

Noydb wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Just a guess from this line in the header: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC)

- Salty

[Phaedrine Stonebridge]

Har har har. :)

[Phaedrine Stonebridge]

I have an IRC client (Athena). But he said you needed Windows.

[Phaedrine Stonebridge]

Well he could tell by my news client (in the headers). But you're right, there are a lot of Linux users out there now too.

[Phaedrine Stonebridge]

Yes of course he did. :) People just assume everyone else uses what they use. I did not realize you could just use normal IRC. I have Athena so I can use that. Thanks :)

[Phaedrine Stonebridge]

See above where Dan said you could access his Garden Chat with Windows.

[Jim W]

Oop missed that anyway.. It's IRC besides!.. not some MicroShaft crap.. LOL!!-) // Jim

[Art Sackett]

Or perhaps irssi.

It's my favorite. But then, I'm a perl programmer by trade, so it makes sense that I'd use an IRC client that's extensible with perl.