on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:40:53PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:13:03PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > > On Thursday 2004-06-24 03:47 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > > dude, i totally would, but this one is not under my control -- my > > > company uses yahoo IM to do half of our work, and i don't think > > > they're open to switching. > > > > Ouch! That's not a great situation. > > > > > i'll propose it to my boss, but people can be surprisingly > > > resistent to change ... > > > > Here's how you suggest it: "Boss, there's a great solution that we > > can use for free, and it gives us complete control over our > > messaging system. It's secure because our information never leaves > > our network unless we want it to, and we can put free encryption on > > it so that messages from salespeople out in the field can't be > > intercepted by our Internet company." -- Kirk Strauser > > yeah, the thing is, he knows about all of this. he'd like to switch, > he just can't handle helping everybody convert. > > so i took matters into my own hands. i'm having a small group of us > (10-15) download gaim and other clients, and sign up at gabfest.net > (thanks a lot, jamin!), for a proof-of-concept; we'll hopefully > migrate to our own server soon. i told him about this, and he got all > excited about involving developers in the IT side of things (we're a > smaaaaaaall company, you see) ... looks like the wheels are in motion. > > ahh, all those little lightbulb icons down my gaim buddy list make me > happy ...
Problem I've had with GAIM on WinXP Pro (pardoning the OT issues) is that the installer fails with what appears to be a Win32/16 problem in the command interpreter. I found some MSFT KB articles referencing solutions in NT, but nothing appropriate to XP. Given I have a bit more control over the computing environment, my own solution is to implement messaging on the GNU/Linux server and encourage use of remote X sessions through this. Kids are awfully like cats.... Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? With tears in our eyes, we drove off into the sunset lookin' for another place to put the garbage. - A. Guthrie
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