Re: IM blocked at work
- From: Perfect Reign <theperfectreign@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:59:41 -0700
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:21:44 GMT, someone posing as kyra pretended that
someone gave a rat's ass and spewed out:
> Larry wrote:
>> All of the sudden IM is blocked at my workplace. So what to do?
>> Believe it or not, the main thing I used it for was to talk to people
>> at work (on different floors) about work-related things! (I hate
>> talking on the phone... it always seems to take forever and also,
>> everyone hears you... cube farm, you know) So I would really like to
>> get my IM back.
>>
>> I have thought of a few solutions. Tunneling to my home PC using
>> various tools that do this.... This strikes me as "pushing the
>> envelope" a bit much... i.e. could get me in trouble if found out.
>> Another idea... installing my own IM server on my work PC (Windows).
>> That would at least let me IM to other people at work. But that
>> suffers from the same "envelope" issue.
>>
>> Is there any peer-to-peer IM solution? Or any better idea I haven't
>> thought of?
>>
> jabber?
> icq? aim?
> find out what ports are actually being blocked
> "IM" does not cover any specifica application..
Also, to answer your question, yes.
We've been using this, which compiles nicely in VC++
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/I-N/network/messaging/article.php/c5419/
You can customize it to your heart's content, since you get source.
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