[TriLUG] irc at work is dead..

[Tanner Lovelace]

You could always do what a bunch of us do and ssh to the
TriLUG machine and use irssi and screen from there.

Cheers,
Tanner

On 4/4/07, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, this is the case exactly.  I found I *CAN* ssh out, I just can't open
> outbound ports thanks to the ssh proxy.  So I think I'll give the irssi a go
> and see if I can get it installed on my OS X machine.  IRC out is not
> possible.  I'm trying to do the "ssh -D" but I get some truly funky stuff
> back that I haven't quite figured out what to do with yet.
>
>
> On 4/4/07, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a feeling that if greg was able to ssh out, or irc out from his
> > workplace he would.  irc at work was a cgi-irc page that let you get
> > around certain workplace restrictions.
> >
> > On 4/4/07, Joseph E. ODoherty <joey at odoherty.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:32:28AM -0400, Magnus wrote:
> > > > Greg Brown wrote:
> > > > >someone forgot to renew the domain.  Anyone else know of a good
> > web-based
> > > > >IRC server out there on the Internets?
> > > >
> > > > "ssh -D your.home.machine"
> > > >
> > > > Log into irc with a normal irc client, point to localhost as your
> > SOCKS
> > > > server. :)
> > >
> > > screen + irssi is also amazing for this.
> > >
> > > --
> > > pub  1024D/B663781B 2001-11-13 Joey O'Doherty <joey(at)odoherty(dot)net>
> > >      Key fingerprint = F76B 9ACA 4197 C707 6E4D  2B78 E430 101A B663
> > 781B
> > >
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> > password
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