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Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?



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Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
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>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 06/15/08 05:46, Star Liu wrote:
>>>> <snip> except that it refuses root to use it. :)
>>> As well it should.  Why are you running as root?
>>>
>> I disagree. I agree that in 99% of cases running normal UL applications
>> as root is a bad idea, but this isn't ubuntu. If I want to play with
>> [whatever] as root, then it should damn well let me.
> 
> A certain version of SuSE would set the desktop background to red if you
> logged in as root.
> 
> And looking at your signature, I noticed IRC wasn't really mentioned in
> this thread. Not exactly instant-messaging, but a good place to get
> support (errr... or to be labeled as n00b).
> 
> I normally use xchat, which is probably also the client of choice for
> the Gnomes.  From what I understand, Konversation is the client of
> choice for the Trolls (err... KDE folks). The ChatZilla extension to
> Iceweael (or whatever) is also quite nice. Gaim/Pidgin and Kopete have
> their own IRC plugins. And there's the irssi terminal-based client.
> 
irssi + screen. it's where it's at
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