so, my school computer has blocks against opening new programs once they are installed, but, last year, someone showed me adium, and a special little thing to do that made it work, but I don't rememeber what it was. any ideas?

Fail.

here you go, glad to help

fixed your link!

yeah... I thought about that site. Usually the link I provided doesn't help unless they themselves have encountered the issue.

i thought adium was great. nice customizable interface etc.
Until i realized after a while that some msgs randomly wouldn't send and receive, which inevitably lead to confusing conversations.

So back to ugly MSN for me, but hey, at least it works.

Moved to T+T.

The forum placement could not have been more wrong, buddy.

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What i really want to say, I can't define.

But until then, all i can do is try.

If you just want to message people - open the task manager, and if you can see other users on the network, right click their name (or ID#) and send them a message.

THREAD HIJACK!!!111!!one!!!!

Is there any way to get irc to go through a different port? I've tried to use ChatZilla through PortableFirefox at school, but my school uses SonicWALL firewall, which is a major pain in the ass to circumvent. It blocks the irc ports (6666 and 6667 if I'm not mistaken).

I guess this is a relevant topic...

OP: You might need to configure Adium to use your school's proxy, if it has one. You do this in the connection/network options in Adium. For example, in order to get the internet/other apps working on my school's network I have to connect to the statewide school proxy (proxy.decs.sa.edu.au); if your school doesn't have one, then not sure what it might be--have you checked to see whether your school's firewall is blocking it?

SLice_760: Only thing I could think of would be port forwarding; but I'm unsure how you'd go about doing that with IRC off the top of my head.