Why Is the Cafe Chat Always Deserted?
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Amie
Mac Convert for Life
Also, I see a few different subcategories in the Live Chat room (Genius Bar and a few others), and there's never anyone in ANY of those rooms. I find this odd 'cause usually chat rooms are jam packed. (Although ... they are usually jam packed with idiots. But this is a Mac chat room. I wouldn't expect idiots here.) 
Lt Major Burns
"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
chat rooms are packed with idiots. but this is a mac forumAmie said:Although ... they are usually jam packed with idiots. But this is a Mac chat room. I wouldn't expect idiots here.
i think i found the solution
Lt Major Burns
"Dicky" Charlteston-Burns
we aren't idiots... we're mac users
no, i think it is a good idea, but people just for some reason seem to treat it like a rabbi treats pork
no, i think it is a good idea, but people just for some reason seem to treat it like a rabbi treats pork
Amie
Mac Convert for Life
People told me that the Live Chat room is mostly a nighttime thing. Well ... it's nighttime and I just came from there. And guess what? Yep--deserted again! What is this Live Chat--a totally unused feature of this board? Or maybe it's for people who are in "invisible mode" only.
nixgeek
Mac of the SubGenius! :-)
I've been on there a bunch of times but alas, it's just been me. I was just curious as to why the mods here didn't choose to do this over IRC. It's much more supported than having to create a chat room using Flash. I can't even get on with some of my machines, and I don't want to use Windows. Linux on either x86 or PPC with firefox doesn't work. Flash just craps out on Linux/x86, and flash isn't even an option on Linux/ppc. I guess I could use Mac OS 9 on my StarMax, but then I wouldn't be able to use my multi-IM client (Gaim), so I just stick it out in LinuxPPC Land.
Would it be too much trouble to have an IRC channel for the chats?
Would it be too much trouble to have an IRC channel for the chats?
nixgeek
Mac of the SubGenius! :-)
Amie said:
There was never any doubt that it would work in OS X. I haven't tried it on OS 9 (which it would probably work in) since I'm usually logged into Debian (my StarMax is dual-boot). I prefer using Firefox and Gaim and all the other apps available to me under Linux than what there would be under OS 9 (of course, this might change if I could just find a decent browser and multi-IM client for OS 9...
).As for IRC (Internet Relay Chat), it's one of the oldest chat methods available, second I believe to the BBS chatrooms of decades ago. They call it Internet Relay Chat because there are multiple servers that "relay" the chatrooms that would be available to the main IRC server. So instead of everyone in the world bringing down one server to access the available chatrooms, there are "mirrors" if you will that relay the chatrooms so that theyr don't kill the main server. Most of these relay servers are located geographically for people that are close to them, so that if you are in the US you don't go logging into a server in Russia, for instance.....you would use the US IRC server.
The only reason I mentioned IRC is because there are IRC clients available for basically every OS, where Flash is only available for a select number of operating systems.
Amie
Mac Convert for Life
nixgeek said:There was never any doubt that it would work in OS X. I haven't tried it on OS 9 (which it would probably work in) since I'm usually logged into Debian (my StarMax is dual-boot). I prefer using Firefox and Gaim and all the other apps available to me under Linux than what there would be under OS 9 (of course, this might change if I could just find a decent browser and multi-IM client for OS 9...
As for IRC (Internet Relay Chat), it's one of the oldest chat methods available, second I believe to the BBS chatrooms of decades ago. They call it Internet Relay Chat because there are multiple servers that "relay" the chatrooms that would be available to the main IRC server. So instead of everyone in the world bringing down one server to access the available chatrooms, there are "mirrors" if you will that relay the chatrooms so that theyr don't kill the main server. Most of these relay servers are located geographically for people that are close to them, so that if you are in the US you don't go logging into a server in Russia, for instance.....you would use the US IRC server.
The only reason I mentioned IRC is because there are IRC clients available for basically every OS, where Flash is only available for a select number of operating systems.
Ah ... I see! Thank you for that detailed and rather scholarly explanation! See, I'm learning something every day!
Amie
Mac Convert for Life
I'm not sure how to list my IM accounts under my profile/sig, but if you'd like to chat sometime, I'd be happy to give the information to you. Feel free to PM me and I will reply there, rather than listing it in public for people who don't give a rat's @ss to see.nixgeek said: