irc...webbased

[tuxnewb]

Ok i know of a couple of webbased irc clients but i was wondering if anyone out there knew of one that i could use off a USB HDD. Currently i am on a box that i dont have admin on and i cant install any irc software. Im not even really sure if they have the ports open. none the less it would be awesome to find something that works :)

thanks in advance
Tuxnewb

[hard candy]

If you are at work, I would double check and make sure it is allowed to use IRC. Might be something to look in to and avoid a reprimand.
Can you use Firefox or Mozilla? An extension is available Chatzilla, you may be able to use if.

[tuxnewb]

Yeah i know but im willing to take the reprimand cause im sure im not suppose to use it :). none the less can you run mozilla from external hdd....cause if you can and you can get it to save all the cookies and web URLS to the hdd that would be awesome. Cause i use alot of different computers here and to have all my bookmarks and stuff on one hdd that i can run on any of them would be nice

[mrBen]

You can run PuTTY off a USB key - you could SSH into another box and IRC from there.

[JoeyJoeJo]

I have a similar problem, so I installed tightvnc on my computer at home and can remotely use whatever apps I want to. You don't have to install anything on your work computer. Tightvnc has a feature that you can point a browser to your computer's IP or hostname at port 5800 and it will open up a java app that you can control your computer with. But I guess that won't work if you don't have java.

[davisfactor]

Yep, PuTTY off a USB key works great. SSH into your box at home and run irssi or another console based IRC client.

If you can't SSH to your box at home, you can always find a free shell to use.

I also found a howto a while back about running Firefox from a USB key too.

It would save you from carrying around an external hard drive.

[davisfactor]

Originally posted by JoeyJoeJo
I have a similar problem, so I installed tightvnc on my computer at home and can remotely use whatever apps I want to. You don't have to install anything on your work computer. Tightvnc has a feature that you can point a browser to your computer's IP or hostname at port 5800 and it will open up a java app that you can control your computer with. But I guess that won't work if you don't have java.

Be careful with TightVNC (and all VNC's other than Ultra I think) as only the password is encrypted, none of the other data is.

From the TightVNC FAQ:

"How secure is TightVNC?

Although TightVNC encrypts VNC passwords sent over the net, the rest of the traffic is sent as is, unencrypted (for password encryption, VNC uses a DES-encrypted challenge-response scheme, where the password is limited by 8 characters, and the effective DES key length is 56 bits). So using TightVNC over the Internet can be a security risk. To solve this problem, we plan to work on built-in encryption in future versions of TightVNC.

In the mean time, if you need real security, we recommend installing OpenSSH, and using SSH tunneling for all TightVNC connections from untrusted networks. "