WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[enismirdal]

Good news:

1. My internet works right away, so I am amongst you once again.
2. Room is OK now I've made it a bit more home-like.

Bad news:

1. Y!M does not work. And will never work. Because they blocked that port. *fumes* I still have AIM, MSN when I can actually be bothered to use it, Skype and ICQ.
2. The regulations imply they don't like us using the internet for "purely recreational use", whatever that means, so I guess when I go online I need to read papers too. LOL I'm not sure whether this is nominally or if it's actually enforced.

In other words, it could be worse but I still can hardly wait to get out of here and get a private place with a proper internet.

Comments

[melime.livejournal.com]

The regulations imply they don't like us using the internet for "purely recreational use", whatever that means, so I guess when I go online I need to read papers too.

... WHAT. That's just... ghghghg. I can understand having regulations against downloading (which my school has) and porn (which my school does but I don't think enforces, because, I mean... hello, college students).

I hope they don't enforce it. :/ I am so paranoid about the Internet Police busting up in my apartment and arresting me for looking at too much porny fanfic. XD

Actually, my apartment had their own internet provider (via ethernet) with all these rules and regulations and downloading-per-day limit, and last summer it just WENT DOWN. For the entire summer. And they gave me all these excuses: lightning strike, heat, bad connection, so finally I just gave up and, since we already had a Sprint account for the phone, added on an internet connection through the phone port. :/ Since Sprint is a giant company, I don't feel as bad about the massive amounts of downloading that I do or all the bad porny fanfic I read, and my policia paranoia is toned down a bit, although I still have this habit of saving fanfic and reading it offline because I just know someone is watching!

Wow. I digressed. I digressed a lot. D:

Anyways, it's really super lame that they tell you that you shouldn't use the internet for recreational use. I mean... are they kidding themselves? Really?

[chess]

ISTR the CUDN had a clause about using it for academic stuff and not for fun, and everyone blithely ignored that too.

[tolliel.livejournal.com]

those you have YIM version 8 can actually chat with those who have a MSN live address.... it is a new feature but one I hope works as well as I hope since I cannot use YIM at work

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Ooh! *starts investigating*

That would be wonderful!

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

Y!M is available through MSN...

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

It is? How how how? Is this something where I can't use Trillian? *will do pretty much anything for Y!M short of terminating tenancy agreement and moving out*

[erestor.livejournal.com]

RATS! :( I got your message and noted the address. Have you tried to add me on MNS by any chance? I only use YIM and won't add another messengerthingy, but we can always mail. :)

Look after yourself! *smooches*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Yes! After some other folks commented that apparently MSN and Yahoo can now be made to communicate, I went and tried to add the Yahoo IDs of all the people I talk to most often on my MSN. In theory, if you have Yahoo Messenger with Voice, version 8, you can communicate with MSN users. In practice, this seems to be rather more fiddly. But if it does work and you have the most recent version of Yahell, you wouldn't need to do anything except add my MSN ID, and we'd still be able to chat.

But if that's not going to work, mailing suits me fine.

I have no idea what they have against Yahell...

[erestor.livejournal.com]

I think I know how to do it now. Can you give me your ID? Then I'll add you and we see what will happen.:)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

ice_moon_dragon@hotmail.com

*prays*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

You don't have a computer which you can open a command prompt on with ssh, do you? (And hence forward the yahoo port from there to yahoo with putty.)

Blocking ports seems more of a problem than using different ports fixes -- it seems everyone might as well use 8080 on a different computer name, just to avoid it :)