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[Unison]

I usually chat on #ga on IRC during my work hours because there's not exactly much else to do (I work at a university). I just came back from a 2 week vacation, though, and found my computer ghosted & upgraded from Win 2000 to Win XP Pro. Apparently, the IT department was trying to install a color printer on my machine when I was gone, and ended up fouling up the process so badly that they had to completely reformat my machine. :lol

This was all well & good until I tried re-installing Trillian so I could log onto IRC... Once I got up and running with all my IM programs (which still work fine), I found myself unable to connect to IRC at all. I tried connecting through the Java chat on Planetgamecube & that refused to connect as well, even though I unblocked the programs in the standard XP Firewall.

So, I tried rebooting my computer, and everything worked. I was able to get onto IRC through both Trillian & PCG's page... for a few minutes. About 3 minutes after my computer rebooted, the connection was lost again, and it wouldn't work unless I rebooted...

Any clue what kinda firewall would work this way & if there's anything I can do to get around it? It was a non-issue on Win2K, and I can't see any obvious programs running.

Grrr...

 

[Diablos]

Big Brother was watching you and firewalled your machine to death while you were on vacation. This is likely done remotely. Unless you ask them directly, there's probably not much you can do.

Either that or, they enabled the Windows XP firewall which does block IRC I believe. You can exclude certain programs I THINK (not sure because I don't use it), but, you might not have rights to.

 

[Hooker]

I reckon they upgraded your proxies as well, blocking the IRC port. Going around those is not something I'd recomment to you

 

[Ghost]

If you connect to the IMs you can connect to IRC with a bit of fiddling....thats my experience anyway.

 

[hobart]

Although I've been away for awhile..

#ga w/o Unison is like the Church w/o the Pope.

..I said it.

 

[Gattsu25]

Although I've been away for awhile..

#ga w/o Unison is like the Church w/o the Pope.

..I said it.

Are you saying you'd be glad to see him gone? Wait...use a PROPER analogy this time

 

[pollo]

i didnt make a topic about it, but im fiending for the irc chat tooo...grrr
I need to be able to get passed this fuccin firewall cock blockery.

What the hell does "Software caused connection abort" mean????

I dont understand.

 

[Rorschach]

...and #ga breathes a collective sigh of relief.

 

[Gattsu25]

i didnt make a topic about it, but im fiending for the irc chat tooo...grrr
I need to be able to get passed this fuccin firewall cock blockery.

What the hell does "Software caused connection abort" mean????

I dont understand.

software is aborting your connection

 

[pollo]

software is aborting your connection

WHY

 

[Unison]

i didnt make a topic about it, but im fiending for the irc chat tooo...grrr
I need to be able to get passed this fuccin firewall cock blockery.

What the hell does "Software caused connection abort" mean????

I dont understand.

This is my same issue. Fucking cockblockers. :lol

I wonder if i can switch back to windows 2k somehow...

The weird thing is that all forms of IM work... they must be blocking IRC traffic specifically. I assumed the java web thing would be some kinda workaround, but i guess not.

I guess i can ask one of the IT guys i'm friendly with when i see them.

 

[shuri]

they can now monitor everything, the whole "oh we had to format" thing is a cover up.

 

[DarienA]

they can now monitor everything, the whole "oh we had to format" thing is a cover up.

Man it's funny last week my boss and I were browsing through the proxy server just looking at what website people go to.... all I can say is... WTF.... we had a good laugh over alot of them because they just didn't fit the "professional face" that certain employees put on while they are here...

 

[Unison]

they can now monitor everything, the whole "oh we had to format" thing is a cover up.

We don't have any sort of network policy in place here and they're too understaffed to monitor anything. I never was presented or asked to sign anything related to computer usage like at any jobs. I can't find network employee guidelines anywhere on our IT web site or anything... I think they don't exist.

I think they just hate IRC for some reason. I remember after one of the big virus outbreaks a few years back, they asked people to uninstall any IRC clients and one or two other programs, which I did for a while before I decided to get Trillian, which I've used for the last year or so. I guess one person who stupidly downloaded a virus and infected our network ruined it for everyone.

Grrr..

 

[Escape Goat]

mIRC is crap unless you're in on the circle jerk network.

 

[Mandoric]

mIRC is crap unless you're in on the circle jerk network.

Yes, XChat is much better.

 

[SD-Ness]

What's the GA IRC server? And is there a port for locked places?

EDIT: I see a lot of people have the same problem. The 'software' thing means your provider (I think) has disabled the standard IRC port so you just need one they haven't blocked.

 

[Wario64]

apparantly my #ga days are over because someone couldn't take heat from making a stupid topic

 

[Matlock]

apparantly my #ga days are over because someone couldn't take heat from making a stupid topic

Wait, what?

 

[boredJonathan]

GAF seriously need a blog with all of the drama documented there. Too much shit happens on this board, about this board. (and by extension #ga)

 

[MrAngryFace]

#ga is all about fucking wrestling and football, there are only a few times im allowed to talk about anything else. If they arent talking about football or wrestling Orin is there insulting what I eat.

Still, its a fun place to hang out.