On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:18:06PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> 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 AOL that! A
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