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.
Michael
C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University
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.
>> 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.
Thanks for the information Hamish. I'll give it a try.
Michael
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C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University
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.