Thanks for the information Hamish. I'll give it a try.
Michael
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On Dec 15, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Hamish wrote:
Markus wrote:
You can easily reach IRC with zero installation through this Web
client:
http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi
- select reasonable nick name
- select #osgeo
Then they can check immediately what's going on.
Eric:
A lot of irc protocols are blocked or forbidden behind corporate/
government firewalls for some of us (big brother is always
watching), so that isn't always an option.
Michael:
I second that. Overall, my university is relatively decent on this
(Skype, iChat, and other services are available). But IRC is blocked
and I cannot use it from there.
the whole point of http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi is
that
you interface with the IRC channel over a web page, not using the IRC
protocol. Therefore if the IRC protocol/port is blocked by your
service
provider you can still connect through the above webpage bypassing the
block. IRC's file transfer functions etc don't work over that AFAIK so
I think the web interface is not prone to the type of abuse that a
non-
authoritarian IT dept would be worried about.
Now if the "forbidden" policy is written as the activity not as the
protocol/port, well then you take your chances of getting caught doing
something naughty.
Otherwise try it, as long as you can access web pages it'll probably
work.
Hamish
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