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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Mago_Haydz on June 16, 2009, 06:00:57 PM
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Hi guys,
I have recently been denied access for MSN Messenger at work, and have been using Yahoo to chat to a couple of my MSN friends, but thats playing up now too. I have tried a bevy of so called "multi-chat clients" that apparently lets you use MSN, Yahoo, AOL etc to chat to contacts from any of these other IM programs, but none of them work, because I presume they are still trying to log me in with my MSN and/or Yahoo accounts, which my IT guys have stopped.... any suggestions of programs I can use? Work is so boring with no outside contact!
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Get Mobile MSN - $5 per month on 3 ! :raspberry:
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I thought thats why you're always posting on here ha ha.....
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naw.. we're blocked at work too because I was chewing up 7gb of youtube per month so they clamped all thingsa 'fun'. :cunning:
WF is one of the few sites not blocked :eyebrows:
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use ebuddy if it's unblocked. Pretty sure they'd be blocking the port number in your network so no matter what program you use it will be blocked.
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get an account on meebo.com - that's what i use. It acts as a client for MSN all you have to do is log on to the site
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thanks guys. I was kinda hoping for something less webby, but I may not have an option. If theres a downloadable one it would be sweet
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Ask your boss if there's a downloadable one..? :hmm:
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Ask your boss if there's a downloadable one..? :hmm:
FUCK WORK!
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use ebuddy if it's unblocked. Pretty sure they'd be blocking the port number in your network so no matter what program you use it will be blocked.
and yeah, thats basically what I was trying to say about it being blocked no matter what program I use.
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Ask your boss if there's a downloadable one..? :hmm:
FUCK WORK!
np: HATEWORK - Morbid Angel :headbang:
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Lap top + Mobile Internet Modem from 3 = All Internet, All the Time for $39/month.
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Lap top + Mobile Internet Modem from 3 = All Internet, All the Time for $39/month.
not very discrete though is it?
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Yeah, you'll probably need to stick with a web-based client.
I'm assuming the reason you can't get MSN or Yahoo to work is because they've blocked the ports that those clients use... unless they've IP blocked web clients, which is not likely, you can use those... MSN has it's own legit web client, webmessenger.msn.com I believe.
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Netsend FTW
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Netsend FTW
care to elaborate?
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Netsend FTW
care to elaborate?
A command line messenger service.
Basically, you open a command prompt, and type "net send [IP address or computer name] [message]" (without the quotes), and it will send a message to the specified computer in a message box.
It's not an instant messenger service (at least, not in the conventional sense) - it's only really used in the field of networking as a way of testing connectivity between computers. But hell, try it anyway ... ;)
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net send has been phased out now any way hasn't it?
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Use Fakebook chat
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Netsend is awesome, but I believe most recent versions of windows have the service disabled by default now.
In networking at TAFE, it only functioned on XP and Server 2003 when we activated the service on both the sending and the receiving computer.
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Use Fakebook chat
Erm Feltchbook is pretty much banned in any work place as is cry space & youtube
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Use Fakebook chat
Erm Feltchbook is pretty much banned in any work place as is cry space & youtube
exactly. Dont you think I would have thought of that?
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alternatively do work?
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alternatively do work?
hahahahaha.... yeah, good one man!
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dont use netsend....chances are all messages pop on the server
go check out pidgin, open source client, supports all accounts.
only problem is it doesnt have video and voice, but its a lot lighter and easier to use.
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dont use netsend....chances are all messages pop on the server
go check out pidgin, open source client, supports all accounts.
only problem is it doesnt have video and voice, but its a lot lighter and easier to use.
client is irrelevant if the port is blocked
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all comes to down to how they are doing the blocking.
If its port based you can perhaps change the IM client to use a non standard port to get around the problem.
If it is application level filtering then it doesnt matter what port you use as the filtering device recognises the packets as certain application types and blocks them no matter what port they use.
I'd be looking for a 3rd party app that lets you change the port and see if that works firstly. If not then it is web based only I would say.