[ILUG] irc clients

[Declan Moriarty]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 16:04 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 22 June 2006 13:53, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> 
> > Yes. I have spent about 10 minutes ever on irc. My boys used it (#mzx as
> > they got into megazeux) and other channels, and, like any parent,  I
> > supervised.
> 
> I know this is very square,
> but I've never understood the point of IRC.

Go back in time. The Internet was created for the day when America would
be nuked, government would have brought on the people what they
themselves deserved (probably safe in some bunker) and some other motley
crew would be running the US and dying of radiation poisoning. It's the
ultimate committee forum for _those_ circumstances. I presume the last
thing anyone would do then is _repair_ the phone line into the
government bunker.
 
> I've gone to a few chat-rooms, generally to look for answers
> to problems with some application I'm running
> (eg I was looking for advice on f-stop the other day),
> but I've never found anyone at any of these places
> who was able to help me.

If ilug had a chat room we'd have less 'desparate-help-quick stuff' here
from sysadmins, who can be a tad short at times.
> 
> It has always seemed to me a bit like going into a pub
> and asking if anyone there can solve a mathematical problem.

Never do that. For math, Ask an electronics engineer. They seem to love
giving math lectures, nearly as much as they enjoy correcting each
other.
-- 
        With Best Regards,

        Declan Moriarty.