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- From: avalon@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Subject: Re: Top 50 Killers (12/7/92-19/7/92)
- Message-ID: <avalon.711947810@sorokin>
- Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- References: <CKD.92Jul21121951@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Jul22.063803.19673@alf.uib.no> <CKD.92Jul22110054@loiosh.eff.org> <1992Jul23.181920.17926@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 03:16:50 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar Mukund Mirashi) writes:
-
- >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!
-
- Since the manual is rather brief, RTFS.
- Thats how to learn the inner details of the IRC programs.
- The reast of the knowledge on routing, etc, comes from being
- 'net-aware' (having maps of networks, knowing where you are
- in relation to everyone else, what is good/fast, what is slow/bad,
- etc).
-
- Both take time.
-
- avalon
-