I needed to have another look at IRC. Sadly it seems this is a dead end. Here are my notes this time. …
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Remote Conferencing
The “crisis” has made me review my remote communication tools, I started with Hangouts, but need to check them all; here are my notes on the others. I look at Skype, IRC, ICQ, Jabber, Teams, Netflix, Zoom and Voice only!
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Mastodon
aka mastodon.social, wikipedia says, “Mastodon is a federated social network, with similar features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of servers running open source software.” Can we build a “club” using this? Here are my notes which focused on my failed attempts in building an instance. …
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PC to SMS
There are still people who only use feature phones or even simpler. How can one use a key board to send messages via SMS. Here are my notes, Twitter, ICQ and SMS gateways at the moment. I marked this as deprecated today. The CMS states that this article was created in March 2017, but the…
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Musings on O356
So work is pushing me to Office 365; it wouldn’t surprise me if the next home system does so too. I have decided to see if W7 and a more modern hardware makes OWA easier to use. Since tese comments are contemporaneous with W7, I have marked it deprecated…
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I have been using irc://rizon.net as a chat server and they offer some identity management tools. Here is some more comprehensive instructions. ircaliasing These allow you to take ownership of a nickname and declare a virtual host. /msg nickserv register <password> <email> This causes rizon to send you a confirmation code and message. They send…
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Instant Messaging and Chat (Deprecated)
This article has not matured well. I had been planning to write a blog, which discussed the current attempts led by Google to re-enclose the chat communities. The landscape had changed, with Google, in the spring of 2013 shit-canning Google Reader its RSS reader, and crippling XMPP in Google Talk. I had meant to write something…
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Google Talk & Pidgin (deprecated)
I first attempted this in August 2008. I have successfully configured Pidgin 2.0.1 to act as a client although in one case I have two channels between me and my correspondent. One of the reasons was to have a second XMPP chat service to test my problems with Pidgin and my work’s XMPP server. See…
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Meta I have been using Pidgin as a multi-protocol client for my instant messenger services since about 2008. This page is now marked as deprecated. The contents of this page originally relate to problems I was having with pidgin on a windows system. It was written in the Autumn of 2008 and both windows and…
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Sony v600i
Basically almost back to where I was with my previous Nokia, so now its time to try and make progress.
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