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By Antero Hytönen. Friday, 9. March 2007, 21:25:26

#techies
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<Mr_X>Hello. What's new?
<Ms_Y>We have new and easy way to join the chat at #techies. I hope we get many new visitors.
<Mr_X>Mibbit is cool
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<Ms_Y>I just wish I wouldn't have to sleep, so I would manage to greet every new visitor. Plus I would have to type faster as people don't stay very long. They must be in a a hurry
<Mr_X>Sleeping is overrated







[anonymous]

Fingers tired of pressing F5 to see new messages? It's time to switch to real-time.

Follow this link: irc://irc.opera.com/techies. If your browser doesn't know what to do with the link, but you have separate IRC client, connect to irc.opera.com server and join #techie. If you don't have any client, there's ChatZilla for Firefox and if you're using something else than Opera or Firefox, you can download KVIrc.

Please have some patience though, most of us are not glued to the keyboard and even have to sleep and go to work. If you can't stay but want to be contacted later, please remember to tell your My Opera username. But leaving the window open doesn't hurt, so try that first. You can even browse the web while waiting :wink:

PS: Most likely someone is available somewhere between 18-22 GMT

Turn Off Those Quick Links!Battle for Wesnoth

Comments

XANAID 14. March 2007, 23:54

oh that bad ..wat time is it at your place ???

anzah 15. March 2007, 19:10

Problem is that most active people are from Europe (total two of us), so few from other side of the world would be good to fill the gaps.

PimpyT 15. July 2007, 17:29

I was just thinking of the same thing, but it is definitely possible to make that live chat available on a website. Google did it with the chat you have on your gmail and I am sure that if given a week or so, I can make a nice real-time chat or even a live forum... all I need is a little bit of encouragement anf some time and I can build that first real-time turbo charged forum with live answers to your questions and you can ask the pro's that are online availavble to answer and so on...

anzah 16. July 2007, 20:23

I think I still wouldn't part from my Irssi :smile:

Web chats are fine, but how easy it is to follow few of them simultaneously? With IRC, you're not confined to one channel, network or user interface. Sure, that system could be popular though. Most of the people really haven't seen realtime chat outside MSN.

And unless pros get paid by hour, answers are never fast enough.

PimpyT 17. July 2007, 06:51

Very true, but everyone has a blog or a website now and if a community like my Opera has the real-time chat, then it would really be a valuable thing to have on your blog.. i would like it

elektroniker 9. August 2007, 23:16

Hi,

greate but there are no members inside. Are there any Chat time?

By

Gerald

anzah 10. August 2007, 21:45

Must have been bad timing. I'm usually always in, but lately I have been having hardware issues. Maybe best times to visit are somewhere around 16-24GMT as people have to go to work and sleep too. Other times might be quite silent, unless you have patience to wait few hours for an answer.

THAMTU411 9. October 2007, 02:46

HI MY FAMILY

shobhitsaini 22. October 2007, 13:54

hi

anzah 22. October 2007, 20:19

This is not the chat :wink:

Anonymous 23. September 2008, 09:58

Anonymous writes:

Hello

anzah 23. September 2008, 21:01

This is still not the chat :wink:

klowry 3. October 2008, 01:30

is anyone watching the debate

Anonymous 5. December 2008, 20:20

Anonymous writes:

Plz let mem log in

anzah 5. December 2008, 21:33

It should work just by clicking the link. Do you get any error messages?

act2bmp 10. December 2008, 13:18

Hi there my chat don't chat! as for gmail in you web page ymail do it to just thought ad say. But your right it would be much better to do it all from one browser.

Id also like to find help on setting up Apache on my home PC. I installed 2.2.10 for host act2bmp.game-host.org it works at first then after a reboot I get an error saying access denied on Apache server 1.3.27? any help or direction much appreciated.

thanks

anzah 10. December 2008, 23:27

If the chat doesn't work, please provide at least some details. For example what browser or client you are using and if there's any error messages, those are very helpful too.

As for the Apache question, please make new topic at http://my.opera.com/techie-chat/forums/forum.dml?id=3666 and provide as much details as you can.

act2bmp 12. December 2008, 03:42

thanks I use opera 9 default Ive never really used irc before now so it is new to me. I click the link and nothing or right click open in new just kinda hangs at a new page but that's about it.

If you can explain the how to connect it may help me alot. thanks for the Apache will do but just put ubuntu on from an opera users link it has irc stand alone but to configure it looks a bit more than I know at the moment. Thanks again for now john.

anzah 13. December 2008, 13:14

It's hard to say why Opera isn't working and chat really doesn't give any error messages. There's way to debug it, but that gets too complicated. It would be easier to give instructions how to use separate IRC client.

My guess would be that firewall is blocking the chat as it's not normal web traffic. ChatZilla is also as easy to configure as it also works if you just click the link.

act2bmp 13. December 2008, 14:55

Hi and thanks.

I'm running Ubuntu as I say this, theres loads of new stuff to learn if I stick with it that is! but it has IRC and if you can explain how I would use a stand a loan IRC that would be a big help to me.

And if anyone gives Ubuntu a try theres a bit of a help link at Fosswire I'll keep reading and doing for now thanks again. john :sherlock:

anzah 13. December 2008, 17:03

Here's few links that should help you getting started, so you should at least be able to connect somewhere.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XChatHowto
http://www.xchat.org/docs/start/
http://t0x.in/xchatconnect.html

act2bmp 14. December 2008, 07:45

Hey thanks man appreciate it, I shall be doing heads in live real soon :idea:

act2bmp 14. December 2008, 12:34

Hi again, I installed xchat but I need to know how I install operas irc ?

I followed all the links only I found it a bit vague. Don't get me wrong theres a lot of help and irc's setup for you but not enough to tell me how I connect to your irc #techie

I'll keep digging! it'll be me missing the obvious thanks again john :zip:

anzah 14. December 2008, 18:52

You don't have to install Operas IRC, it's builtin. There's just something wrong with your for Opera as it seems that it doesn't want to connect.

As for X-Chat, two first links are just to get you started. The last one has instructions on how to add new network in http://t0x.in/xchatconnect.html#03

What you need to do is to add irc.opera.com as server and #techie as channel (though you can also join channels later on). Then you should have OperaNet as network, so you can connect to it.

act2bmp 15. December 2008, 09:56

Thanks again, I will do that.

act2bmp 15. December 2008, 10:36

Thanks, it worked a treat.

All this is on the Ubuntu 8.10 OS.

I think I'll see how it goes but if anyone has an old PC like this one or just wants to try something new then this is it for me.

Its got a bit of slagging off from the odd one in the Op Com but its 4 free and does more than it said on the tin. And did I say it was free!

I found the link from a site on Opera. http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu

marcin75 16. December 2008, 15:08

Hi
I'm using irc for a week or two .I hav two gsm modems for internet connection two different operaters. From last sunday I can't log in to OperaNet,Europe server using one of my modems(centerel.pl)but it workes on different servers.I'd like to know why I am blocked using one operater(centertel.pl) and everthing works ok using the other(eranet.pl)? I didn't do any harassment,I was only checking available channels too many times...I'd prefer to use the modem that I'm blocked cos it works more smoothly and don't lose operater's signal.
Thank you for any reply.

anzah 17. December 2008, 21:31

I don't operate the network, so I can only guess what's happened. It could have been something you have done or somebody else using same ISP is to blame. Some people keep reconnecting to get different IP address so ban might cover whole ISP. Usually ban should be lifted sooner or later though.

I haven't had ban from the network, so I'm not sure if reason can be seen when trying to connect, but Opera wouldn't tell anyway as it hides all stuff server says.

Changing_woman 26. August 2009, 05:22

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