On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, B. Bogart wrote:
I will not be in the lab on that day, and somhow I think only You, Miller and I would have access to it... Patrick Pagano wrote:
how about on the access grid instead?
Right. The Access Grid is not particularly accessible. It's a high-tech high-cost solution reserved to some universities and some research centres.
IRC, on the other hand, is a low-bandwidth protocol invented in 1988, standardized by IETF, and supported by hundreds of programs on many OSes and which can run on a 9600 bps modem if that's all one has.
Text-based meetings also have several advantages over audio-based meetings, such that several conversations can happen at once and so it's easy to take your time saying something without disturbing anyone. With text, no-one is fighting for the microphone.
Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montréal QC Canada