To spice up the networking discussion, let me announce a new version of my networking experiment, the socketstream library. The home-page is here: http://socketstream.sourceforge.net/ It's not up to date yet, but the doxygen documentation is nearly current. The SourceForge page is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/socketstream/ The Subversion repository is here: https://mndfck.org/svn/sockestream/ In particular, here are some example client projects of the library: https://mndfck.org/svn/socketstream/trunk/example/ The bug pointed out in this list in the time server was corrected. ;) Two new examples were added last time I mentioned this library here, an extremely simple http client, and a very simple irc client library with it's own example application. The irc client library makes use of the boost::signals library, and soon I'll have a reworked version of the irc::message class that uses boost::spirit to parse messages from istreambuf_iterator's. There are some weird bugs yet to solve, but it works enough to play around. I'm planning to eventually make a "boost" version of the library as an excuse to study the Boost.Build system. -- Pedro Lamarão