On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > I was sort of hoping I'd be able to start working on someone else's sources, > one advantage of open source, definitely. I mean taking a very basic demon > app, removing real functionality and replacing it with the IRC stuff. well a deamon is simply a proram that runs in the background and performs some tasks there. So an existing irc-client with a socket or network interfface doing the connection&protocol stuff would work nicely in the background.
> Are these real interrrupts or some callbacks? callbacks. > THX in advance. How do we transfer the stuff? I'll put it on the web somewhere :) > I've got VDSL 10 megabits on both directions ideally. In practise, hardly > ever over 500 kilobytes a sec even from Microsoft. morn then enough. > That could work. How early on will I be able to use SSH. Can I do all > critical stuff such as choice of partitions and packages to be installed on > my own? What's the absolute minimum before I can run an SSH server in the > setup? I suppose network setup is easy as I have a Telewell box that does > NAT translation and also PPPOE as well as dynamic DHCP, I think. AFAIK just after netwrok-install. You will be able to do everything critical to the install. > A silly question: can I get Windows-like case behaior in Linux? That is file > name case being stored but not usually significant in commands. NO you can't and you actually don't want it either :) I suggest you have a look at this howto (maybe too basic, but it'll give you some clues on the big differences) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html > PS: Hope you don't mind if I post this on the list as others may have > something to contribute. When we get mostly down to personal stuff, I'll > take it off-list then. grand. > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003
