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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: Top 50 Killers (12/7/92-19/7/92)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.181920.17926@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Sender: usenet@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Nets)
- Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
- References: <CKD.92Jul21121951@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Jul22.063803.19673@alf.uib.no> <CKD.92Jul22110054@loiosh.eff.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:19:20 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <CKD.92Jul22110054@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- >Ove> == Ove Ruben R Olsen <buboo@alf.uib.no>
- >
- > Ove> Is this client using select () ; or fork () ; ?
- >
- >select(). The problems were in the screen interface handling code; on
- >one occasion, the word-wrap module went insane and started sending
- >output to the terminal as fast as it could. Since it was on a local
- >xterm process rather than a "real terminal", that was pretty fast.
- >(Unfortunately so fast that the window manager was getting cycle-starved
- >from all the updates the X server was trying to deal with.)
- >
- >Note to implementors: be very careful how you do word-wrap :)
- >
- >--
- >Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
- > ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the
- > point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
- > to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
-
- I have been reading this newsgroup for some time now, and in fact tried
- IRC only after I saw this newsgroup! But articles like the one stated
- above continue to befuddle me. I am still learning (and would like to
- learn more)...... There seems to be an elite group of hackers (IRC ops?)
- who know the very inner details of the workings of IRC (like ping times,
- routing, hubs, and stuff like in the article above). Could any of you
- "gurus" please enlighten me, and perhaps suggest a book where I could
- learn more of IRC, routers, etc. I can program in C, Pascal, etc.
-
- Thank You!
-
-