I was wondering if anyone has experienced what I experience on Yahoo Chat using both Linux and Windows. My PC is Dell Dimension 4550 with a 64mb vidcard, and 60GB HDD, I have both Mandrake Linux and Windows XP Pro SP1 (Origianl SP, not SP1a) and when I chat on Yahoo using java, everything works fine, after chatting for about 10-15 minutes i notice something funny, well two things. On Linux typing this character "<" will result in you getting this ">" why I don't know, and second, the Java Chat seems to block you out. I hate it when I am chatting with someone and all of a sudden what I type doesn't show up on the screen. This seems to be a big problem with Linux and Windows using Sun's J2re 1.4.2, or the JVM in Microsoft Windows. I don't know why this happens. I thought it was the browses, the same problem happens in Opera 7.53, IE6, Mozilla FireFox, Mozilla 1.6, and Konqueror. I don't know why but I really find it annoying having to switch from MDK Linux which I enjoy using to Windows XP and chat on Chat 2.0 cause Yahoo can't get their shit working propertly.

heh..there are two things I really hate, no matter what OS people use - chats and java, especially together chats are just a dumb copy of the idea of irc, and they never work all right...I hate 'em. and java...gosh, it just eats up memory and is slow and never works correctly :P

what if you try downloading some other java kit? I mean, there are blackdown and j2re (am I correct? sorry, I'm not a java expert), and I've heard these "kits" work differentially..

sorry if I have missed something with this java-stuff, blackdown and so on..but this is my guess. correct me if I'm wrong (ie blackdown is a rabbit or something else stupid hehe)

EDIT: got to add to this one more thing...I've always had java problems (I'm using j2re) with things; some work ok, but quite many don't...what's the deal? why don't they work, if java packs are "common" and java language is "common", don't people do java things well enough? hard to believe..

Yeah I really hate java chats as well, but yahoo seems to be the only happening chats, I remember back in 99 there was att.net chat, lycos, and excite. I will try that blackdown, thanks.