This is what GNOME and everythign else should be about. Working on a stable, complete, well done environment, and working on allowing component expandability and inclusion.
Folks are whining a lot "well, isn't this what Microsoft has?" - yes, of course it is, and it's one of the thigns that makes Windows such a strong platform. Does that mean we shouldn't use it? Christ no. Can we do it better? Maybe.:)
The more I work with KDE, the more impressed I am at the technical expertise and UI skill going into the product, and the less enthralled I am with GNOME.
Go go gadget KDE.
s, about to redo his machine to go KDE2 full time.
Try Gale. IRC is NOT the platform to build on.
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I've been involved in the IRC community for the last 10 years or so, both from a user and admin perspective (anyone remember pilot.njin.net on EFnet?). I've come to the following inescapable conclusions:
IRCII in its current form is not fault tolerant (single path between any 2 clients, if that path breaks, the entire network splits)
The current politics of running IRC (specifically EF net, but any IRC network that grows to a certain size suffers this) make it impossible to improve the infrastructure.
IRCII's protocol makes you 'think' in a certain model. Nicknames. user@hosts. channels. Ops. This is an IRC mindset, not a communications mindset. FOlks comparing IRC to other systems need to remember that "/mode +o hax0rz" is not required in all systems, or there may be different approaches to things.
Having said all that, I've been working a lot with Gale lately. It's encrypted end to end. It is NOT 'hard linked / single path' - in fact, the servers are loosely coupled. The concept of 'nicknames' doesn't exist. Everyone is a user@galeserverhost. The only way you can connect to a gale server is if the owner of that server signs your key, and the owner of that server has to have his server key signed by the Gale authority before they can connect to the rest of the network.
The entire system has been running for a year or two now, and we're in the process of taking the next step in the protocol. There are several clients available, and the active community on the network is communicative, intelligent, and always contributing.
Tired of IRC? Try gale. http://www.gale.org/
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And before you chastise folks for not knowing the facts, you should check your facts as well. The term 'number of users' is very specific in the Keystone license. It means the number of -technicians- that will be working in the system. Not the number of employees, or the number of people who may be checking the system for the status on a ticket they entered. It is strictly the number of technicians (or managers) using the system.
Yes, I wrote that license, Yes, it is not free. The point being that if you have more than 10 techs using the system to run the IT department, your company is profiting enormously from the system. Kicking $500 my way is only fair - I have to pay for my computers, network connection, and cola supplements somehow.:)
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Folks are whining a lot "well, isn't this what Microsoft has?" - yes, of course it is, and it's one of the thigns that makes Windows such a strong platform. Does that mean we shouldn't use it? Christ no. Can we do it better? Maybe. :)
The more I work with KDE, the more impressed I am at the technical expertise and UI skill going into the product, and the less enthralled I am with GNOME.
Go go gadget KDE.
s, about to redo his machine to go KDE2 full time.
Having said all that, I've been working a lot with Gale lately. It's encrypted end to end. It is NOT 'hard linked / single path' - in fact, the servers are loosely coupled. The concept of 'nicknames' doesn't exist. Everyone is a user@galeserverhost. The only way you can connect to a gale server is if the owner of that server signs your key, and the owner of that server has to have his server key signed by the Gale authority before they can connect to the rest of the network.
The entire system has been running for a year or two now, and we're in the process of taking the next step in the protocol. There are several clients available, and the active community on the network is communicative, intelligent, and always contributing.
Tired of IRC? Try gale. http://www.gale.org/
Yes, I wrote that license, Yes, it is not free. The point being that if you have more than 10 techs using the system to run the IT department, your company is profiting enormously from the system. Kicking $500 my way is only fair - I have to pay for my computers, network connection, and cola supplements somehow. :)
Keystone. Stonekeep Consulting. Yes, I wrote it, so I'm biased. :)