From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:25:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001221182507.EF827199E3@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
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is there some spec. for icq (the protocol)? i've got some old public source code
but it looks as though they reverse engineered it, and if i were to implement it
(not that i am) i'd prefer to do it from a spec, and only then look at source
to see all the places that the spec is wrong or misleading or extended, as
befits any Internet protocol.
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From: "Alexander C. Deztroyer" <alex-sci@freenet.co.nz>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Future of Plan9
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:44:53 GMT
Message-ID: <91ra7i$54s35$1@ID-64718.news.dfncis.de>
> I am still very much at the early learning stage of understanding the
> full potential of plan9. But on a gut level, the word that comes to mind
> is "minimalism". What I mean by this is that if something is not really
> needed, why have it. Acme is cool too. I use MWM on my FreeBSD partition
and like it for
> being simple. Eventually, I would like to set up a home network
> and run it as it was designed but for now I am just getting a feel
> for the terrain. It might be fun to have something like "micq"
> but it's not necessary.
I am a 100% agree with your point. Because ppl from bell lab would rather
use e-mail rather than icq. Well, if you really want to use icq-clone, don't
be shy to write a program or port it to plan 9. It might have use for
somebody. But remember one point: Plan 9 is a system use to serve as a
distributed system, but a personal computing system. If you like the
functions provided by those fancy OSes, by all means change back to it. We
enjoy Plan 9 as it is simple, easy to use (is it really easy for beginners
:-) )
Alex
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2003-02-10 17:01 [9fans] " Jaytee
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2003-02-11 13:06 ` Jim Choate
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2003-02-12 4:31 ` Jim Choate
2003-02-12 5:12 ` Andrew
2003-02-12 10:34 ` matt
2003-02-12 11:46 ` Digby Tarvin
2003-02-12 17:17 ` Sam
2003-02-12 20:58 ` adrian Damn it !
2003-02-12 21:00 ` Matt Keeler
2003-02-11 14:35 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-02-11 16:04 ` Dan Cross
2003-02-11 17:05 ` matt
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2001-01-03 1:19 William Staniewicz
2001-01-02 22:43 ` matt heath
2001-01-08 9:54 ` Ross Evans
2000-12-24 2:11 Russ Cox
2000-12-24 2:18 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-24 15:46 ` matt heath
2000-12-25 5:47 ` Anthony Starks
2001-01-02 17:36 ` Randolph Fritz
2001-01-02 17:36 ` cLIeNUX user
2001-01-02 17:42 ` Anssi Porttikivi
2000-12-24 1:51 Russ Cox
2000-12-24 1:55 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-24 2:03 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-02 16:51 ` Dan Cross
2000-12-23 14:40 rob pike
2000-12-22 14:00 forsyth
2000-12-22 22:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-22 11:32 forsyth
2001-01-02 17:24 ` cLIeNUX user
2000-12-21 19:21 forsyth
2000-12-21 20:48 ` matt
2000-12-21 19:20 forsyth
2000-12-22 9:20 ` cLIeNUX user
2000-12-21 18:30 Russ Cox
2000-12-21 18:33 ` matt
2000-12-21 17:46 anothy
2000-12-23 13:21 ` Steve Kilbane
2000-12-24 1:21 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-01-02 17:52 ` Chris Locke
2000-12-19 10:48 forsyth
2000-12-13 10:49 [9fans] " Stephen Adam
2000-12-14 9:49 ` [9fans] " Deztroyer-a1
2000-12-14 12:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-12-19 9:57 ` Randolph Fritz
2000-12-19 16:07 ` vecera
2000-12-20 0:58 ` Steve Kilbane
2000-12-20 18:59 ` William Staniewicz
2000-12-21 9:44 ` Alexander C. Deztroyer
2000-12-21 18:27 ` Andrew Zubinski
2000-12-21 9:45 ` vecera
2000-12-22 0:04 ` Steve Kilbane
2000-12-20 9:59 ` Alexander C. Deztroyer
2000-12-20 10:00 ` Patrick R. Wade
2000-12-20 9:59 ` Alexander C. Deztroyer
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