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Skype & MSN
Just a quick note to all that I know: if anybody is wondering why I haven't been on either Skype or MSN much the last week, it's because I'm making use of local-only ADSL to download stuff (much cheaper than full international). I can use MSN on Gaim but then I need to throw it over a socks proxy like with Google Talk to connect to the international server and every time I connect to MSN on Gaim, it crashes. I therefore use Kopete but it does not seem to have the facility to throw the connection over a socks proxy. Skype doesn't have socks proxy support either, it seems. And more than that, my Skype installation is totally buggered. But more about that later.
So if you want to catch me, you are always welcome to add me to Jabber (charlvn@jabber.obsidian.co.za) or Google Talk (charlvn@charlvn.za.net). Especially Jabber is cool because I can connect directly to the South African server jabber.obsidian.co.za while on local-only.
(Btw, I know there are other MSN-compatible clients on Linux but I just really don't have the time right now to stuff around with that. If you know of a good one, please comment, much appreciated!)
Copyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
2 Comments
Comment by
pcmiller@jabber.obsidian.co.za on Thursday, August 16, 2007 11:15:00 AM
Why don't you use the MSN gateway on the Obsidian Jabber server?
Basically you register your MSN account with the Jabber gateway service and after that you can talk to MSN users with your Jabber account. As long as you have a reliable connection to @jabber.obsidian.co.za it works quite well.
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:44:00 PM
I tried this actually but none of my contact appeared to be online. Weird...
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