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> 1) What kind of troubles these were?  The old troubles with intermittent
> service from jabber.org?  Or auto-connection troubles related to
> password protection?  Or something else, more fundamental?

Yes, I think the problem is mostly jabber.org's poor provisioning.  The
service is much more readily available than it used to be, but sometimes
goes out for very short intervals - 'flapping'.  Combined with the
display of logs on join, it gives a time-warp effect where you keep
seeing the log for the last day or so, printed over and over again.

I certainly like the idea of hosting the server at CERN rather than here
- - it saves me work. :)

> Currently, (i) the service is still open to inside-CERN only, so if you
> access it from outside of CERN, you will need to set up an ssh tunnel
> for the time being; (ii) you have to use your regular CERN account
> credentials, it does not accept any other identity for the time being.
> E.g. for Pidgin you can use the following settings:

Can pidgin's support for SOCKS proxies be used to make this tuneling
easier, do you think?

> 3) The box is run by our group, and we can set up things later according
> to what we always wanted, e.g. central chat room logging, e.g. use it
> for micro-tweeting about daily progress, etc.  Currently this is a test
> service only, so let's give it some stress testing first...

Sounds good to me.  What barrier does it have to cross for those of us
outside cern.ch to be allowed to reach it without tunelling?

Joe
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