The TOC stuff I was talking about was a problem with IMIRC:
http://www.zevils.com/programs/imirc/
witch is why they switched to OSCAR... I suppose that it could have been limited to that client... but that just illistrates the problems with TOC ( and i suppose OSCAR aswell )... all the more reason to abstract the protocall so that many could work on it...maby there needs to be a lib-OSCAR or lib-TOC or some such.
Sounds cool yes, but AOL also started limiting TOC connections to one per IP a while back making it very annoying for us NAT users.(i think they also limit some features you can use as well)... Maby more clients should write a plugin to use OSCAR or TOC and update the OSCAR plugin as (un)often as you like and let users use TOC if the have/want to. Hey, if you we're really clever you could make the plugins generic enough that you could share development with other free clinets so not everyone has to go through the same effort of circumventing the "block" every time.
No screenshot to prove it, but there was a Netware (4.1 i think) server that had ~620 day uptime untill the power went out for so long that it's poor ups gave out. Then about a month later the hard drive started misbehaving, and the machine was finaly replaced with a newer/better/faster/stronger Netware 5.0 dual box.
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The TOC stuff I was talking about was a problem with IMIRC: ... all the more reason to abstract the protocall so that many could work on it...maby there needs to be a lib-OSCAR or lib-TOC or some such.
http://www.zevils.com/programs/imirc/
witch is why they switched to OSCAR... I suppose that it could have been limited to that client... but that just illistrates the problems with TOC ( and i suppose OSCAR aswell )
Sounds cool yes, but AOL also started limiting TOC connections to one per IP a while back making it very annoying for us NAT users.(i think they also limit some features you can use as well)... Maby more clients should write a plugin to use OSCAR or TOC and update the OSCAR plugin as (un)often as you like and let users use TOC if the have/want to. Hey, if you we're really clever you could make the plugins generic enough that you could share development with other free clinets so not everyone has to go through the same effort of circumventing the "block" every time.
Or, you know... whatever.
No screenshot to prove it, but there was a Netware (4.1 i think) server that had ~620 day uptime untill the power went out for so long that it's poor ups gave out. Then about a month later the hard drive started misbehaving, and the machine was finaly replaced with a newer/better/faster/stronger Netware 5.0 dual box.