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Arlyn Stewart
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Initially Posted - 02/19/2004 : 12:14:50

Is there any interest in an occassional evening chat session?

Arlyn C-250 W/B #224

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 12:54:01

I'm interested.

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John G-
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 13:44:54

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 14:36:15

I like the format of the new chat board provided by SailboatOwners.com but I just tried opening a specific room and it defaulted me back to the house room. It would have been a good option if it allowed creation of a room.

IRC is an option... the nodes are free and only last as long as someone is in the room so there is no overhead or administrative hassle...but IRC requires a client program with the most popular being a shareware progam Mric. It is twenty bucks but offers a 30 day trial before buying.

http://www.mirc.com/

I'm guessing that both Yahoo and MSN have the ability to create rooms on demand but they would likely suffer banner adds and pop up screens.

IRC is simple once the client is installed but I really have no preference...

What works for Mac users...at one time that was an issue?

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Dkn420
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 15:44:29

Arlyn: Great idea! It would be great if it was a part of the forum. Might even get some expert type folks to make a guest question and answer session? Maybe Mr. Butler would give it a shot on a quarterly or monthly basis?

Dan #727

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 16:54:34

Dan,

We've had a Captains Lounge in the past, accessable from association page but it was used very little and when Spike asked if it remained important to us, we mostly said no. The problem was that the host seemed to change fairly often and it was some hassle for the administrator to deal with.

I'm not suggesting we throw that back on her and that we access whatever chat forum on our own and see how it might or might not fly.

I've set up something with little investment of time and no investment of money (read, no committement). It is an IRC location. To access, an IRC client is needed. Within it, pick freenode for the network client. It takes about 10 seconds or so for the connection to be made... at one point it seems that the connection process has failed or will be aborted because of a name issue.... have patience, and give it a 10 count. After the client network is connected to freenode, in the text window, type /join #Catalina25_250.

The client program can be configured to make that connection on start up for easy access with one click.

I will leave mine running and I think should hear a ding if any one comes into the room.

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 19:00:08

Arlyn - that's sounds great!
However, for all us older fellows who are computer semi-illiterate, would you please explain all those terms in English (or even American!

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Derek

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 21:18:20

Click on the link I posted above to mIRC

click on dowload mIRC (note where your computer downloads it to)

go to where it is downloaded and open the program to install it

fill in your name and information

Pick the freenode server

wait for a connect... it will take a few seconds

enter the channel name #catalina25_250

Your there... keep in mind, its a struggle the first time, but it can be easily set up to be completely automatic to go there each time mIRC is opened.

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 21:34:02

"Click on the link I posted above to mIRC"
I know I'm dumb and probably blind...but where is this link??
Derek

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 21:49:17

http://www.mirc.com/

It was under John G's post

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 23:10:22

Thanks Arlyn...

Derek

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 02/19/2004 : 23:49:20

Arlyn,
You asked about IRC and the Mac; we are off on a different path now. We do a very sophisticated IM using video and sound. Our app is called iChat AV. We interface with AOL IM and you currently show up in my "buddy list" because of your AOL IM id. Your image icon is you standing at the wheel of your yacht.

This is a snapshot from my iSight video camera...

I am uncertain about a traditional IRC client for the Mac. One thing I am certain of is that we do not want live video of men in their t-shirts and worse!

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 02/20/2004 : 00:13:41

I just went to versiontracker.com maybe the best web site ever, and did an OS X IRC search and came up with 43 hits.

a search for windows IRC came up with 22 hits and mIRC 6.0.3 was near the top.

I read a few reviews and downloaded SNAK as the favorite of the reviewers I read.

Edited by - Frank Hopper on 02/20/2004 00:22:58

triley
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Response Posted - 02/20/2004 : 00:47:46

Holy crumb. What does all this mean?

Tom

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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 02/20/2004 : 06:52:19

Frank,

You point out a significant advantage to the Macs... PC based machines had initial success with audio chat, video, file transfer, and other really neet features such as linked surfing, linked breadboarding etc. but most of all that went south because of hackers.

The computer ports needed to provide all those features left the PC's vulnerable so now firewalls and routers are needed for protection which close those ports.

Just one of the reasons Macs are gaining in popularity.

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