Stage 3 time go
To #ijiatsu peoples
we can do it
Alright, since this is getting to be a bit out of hand (see below) I might as well post it here.
...my internet connection is proxy and authentication-based, meaning that most IRC clients won't work (i.e. I'm using a university proxy). The only ones that will work are
"browser-based" ones. Credits to anybody who can find one that actually works
and isn't banned by the appropriate server (*cough*).
After messing around with quite a number of IRC Clients that had proxy-authentication support but still didn't work (random freezing / crashing / timeouts; despite having the connections set up nicely), I figured the only roundabout method of doing this is to use... an IM client. However, most of those don't even work due to... unsurprisingly, more errors! This includes the latest version of MSN (lack of proxy support last time I checked), but
not the older version that I have currently installed (a 2008 build).
This more of a nuisance that I thought it would be. I've been trying on and off for
weeks. And of course (unsurprisingly) everything works fine at "home".
tl;dr currently, the only way that you can contact me is via MSN, and MSN alone. Unless you can find a working solution to the above.
(for the record, AIM doesn't work, and I haven't tried anything else yet, due to a small time constraint on my end)