HHHHHHHHMMMMMM WHICH NETWORK CHAT DO YOU USE FOR SENDING MESSAGES.I USE VYPRESS CHAT OR NASSI FOR SENDING MESSAGES TO THE OTHER USERS OF NETWORK. WHICH ONE DO YOU USE?

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blergh what happened to your keyboard? Does your capslock key malfunction so you can't turn off caps? no? It's very annoying to read frankly, and why should one want to message people on the lan? I'd say just use msn messenger and add the others on your contact list

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hey you said that use msn messenger and people to your contact to send messeges it will take a time to sign in and vypress chat dont take time to sign in ok
and you said that your keyboard is not good.It is fashion.
ok

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i use NET SEND (windows dos)

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Jabber http://www.jabber.org. Something like msn, but open source, and you can run your own jabber server .

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jabber wasnt built with lan in my mind , this vypress thing is cool but it aint freeware .

google for NetSendPlus it's kinda like net send but with an Interface .

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It is kind of fun to read these topics because it’s like trying to re-invent the wheel to me.
What I mean is, there is a phone on your desk that works right? So why would you want to bother with messaging where you have to type every thing you say when you could just pick up the receiver punch a few buttons and start talking? Better yet you could put a person on hold and talk to someone else, have conference calling and the likes.

So why bother with the cat thing? Or get rid of the phone.

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Now people like to chat. They like to type messages, use smilieys, send each other dirty pictures and links to dirty sites.

But yeah, I agree that this is a bit of reinventing the wheel. By which I don't mean telephones but IRC.

Actually this kind of lan chat thing makes a great network programming project/excercise. Socket programming is way easier than you might think and fun to do. Best thing is that you can tailor it to your liking. Okay it'd be reinventing the wheel but in a fun and educating way.

 

 

 

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I guess you guys should be glad you don't work here. I'm blocking all IM services on the LAN, WAN and MAN here and internet access are limited to people who need it and don't abuse it (like me ) by accessing forums etc during working hours. We control what is going on the network with a "Carnivor" spinoff called eSniff and all "known" IM ports are blocked on the firewall.

I'm using host file blocklists on computers with internet access and email is filtered. We go to the extreme because there was a period a while back when the network came to a crawl and we could not understand why (before all the controlls was in place). I setup a few packet sniffers and monitored the network for a week. At the time we found multiple employees with different IM and other messaging systems taking up up to 40% of available bandwidth during working hours.

So personally I'm against IM messaging in a work enviroment unless it's a proprietary system that can be monitored and logged and I think most places are small enough to not need IM in the work place.

Nils

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Really eh? I wanna bet that I can create a chat thingy . And with SSL and PGP you don't have to worry about packetsniffers .

Anyways, i don't work yet (i'm 17), I think it's unfair if you don't let anyone go on IM and then as admin do everything you want. That's what's going on at my school, the admins are downloading stuff as if their lives depended on it. And the users of the computers at the library are having shitty slow internet access and having all kinds of limitations on their pc's. They also use some kind of VNC-**** to monitor everything you do. Of course, IM'ing and gaming is not supposed to be done there, but then the admins shouldn't do that too. In reaction to that i wrote a lil program that disabled all the spy stuff on the pc's (A) )

If i were i boss i don't think i would mind if employees read and write some personal email or IM'ing. IF the work isn't suffering from it.

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