how about adding a chat room

[jakol]

so people will stay away from off topic forum..for a change.

[offline]

See left hand side menu, under "other" click on "chat"

[jakol]

wow i didnt see that one ..Baldrick has to make the menus larger for people with bad eye like me.

yes my screen is already on 800x600 res.

[Faustus]

I never found anyone there so I stopped trying. I spend my time in another sites chat room. Non video related tho.

[tgpo]

I'm there every now and then. There usually is at least 1 person on to talk to.

[offline]

Me too. I've helped out a dozen or so people on that chat. There is
often one person at least lurking away in the background. It
is amazing how much easier it is to solve problems when
"talking" in real time. Beats the forum.. but is hard on the spelling

-edit- grammar is a dead loss

[Hardcoreruss]

I cant get it to work, what am I doing wrong. Follow all the instructions to the letter.

[thor300]

Just use mIRC or another irc client app, connect to DalNet and join #videohelp - thats all. 2-3 ops are usually there, people drop by now and then. Seen some of the regulars from this forum from time to time also. Older mIRCs dont have very updated server list for dalnet, as it is about to die after they banned all file sharing there, type /server powertech.no.eu.dal.net if your closest server dont work.

[offline]

I cant get it to work, what am I doing wrong. Follow all the instructions to the letter.

You need Java installed.

http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

[Hardcoreruss]

Yeah its installed, just says it can't connect

[offline]

and of course you have tried different servers? Are you trying
this at work?

[Hardcoreruss]

Yeah but I dont think that is the problem.

[rhegedus]

I just tried it - it takes aaaaages to connect.

Stick with it - make a brew and come back to it 5 minutes later.

[Hardcoreruss]

Right I will give it a spin now

[thor300]

Just to clarify: If you use mIRC, connect to dalnet and join #videohelp, that IS the official videohelp chatroom, same as if you use the java client in the link to the left.
mIRC still require you to use the same port as the java client, so if you are behind a corporate firewall it will not help you. A workaround for this would have to be programmed in PhP or something similar, where a user connects to the web server at port 80 and then the webserver connects to irc at for ex. port 7000. A "proxy" webpage like that would give reduced functionality, so its more work than its worth i guess. Scandinavian Online had something similar i sometimes used back in 1997, not so very good but it worked.

[Hardcoreruss]

Cheers people, got it working, just really slow and when I do get on there is nobody there or they choose not to talk to me.

[offline]

Well thats not a software or hardware problem.
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