Root Access

12:29 AM

anyone know a good in browser chat client that meets the following restrictions: no capital letters in file names, minimal chat features, and preferably a small number of files?

Journeyman Geek

>_>

IRC/qwebirc? ;p

not sure about the capital letters tho

soandos

12:54 AM

@JourneymanGeek, good call

Journeyman Geek

1:13 AM

oh, alternately iris, which is a slightly different version of the same

soandos

@JourneymanGeek, my problem is that the admin whose server this is is using the most useless administration software, and there is nothing that he willing to do to make things easier.

Journeyman Geek

hmm

soandos

things I can't do are upload files with uppercase letters

upload more than 1 file every 20 seconds

Journeyman Geek

...

soandos

hes nuts

and wants a chat server up (this is for my university)

Bob

1:21 AM

@soandos wha-

soandos

@Bob, It gets worse

Bob

@soandos Can you upload a (g)zipped/tarball file to be extracted on the server?

soandos

everything has to be done through this adminstration software

@Bob, I wish

I can only run things that this administration panel knows how to run

and that is a very small list

Bob

@soandos PHP script to extract? :P

soandos

@Bob, good idea

this whole thing is driving me nuts

Bob

1:23 AM

Cause unless you can find something very minimalistic, chances are it'll take a while to upload

soandos

yeah, and he won't budge on the upload limit

apparently, the fact that there are only 4 people that can upload anything at all is apparently not enough

Journeyman Geek

ugh

soandos

sigh how do these people become admins?

Journeyman Geek

not tested but... seriss.com/people/erco/unixtools/chatter

soandos

@JourneymanGeek, I'll take anything that I can make work, and the simpler the better (for now)

I don't think that i can use .cgi though :(

Bob

1:28 AM

So PHP only?

Or is it even more limited?

soandos

@Bob, assume that. I can probably use all of PHP (minus some system calls probably)

Bob

@soandos That's a big assumption to make, considering...

soandos

@Bob, I know I can use at least some of PHP

Never had a problem with that

Journeyman Geek

hmm

google.com/…

Bob

How about phptoys.com/product/micro-chat.html?

5 files

soandos

1:35 AM

@JourneymanGeek, databases are a no go (no idea why)

Bob

2 in one folder

Journeyman Geek

hmm, actually css-tricks.com/jquery-php-chat

Bob

No uppercase filenames

Journeyman Geek

once again, not tested.

Bob

No database

Journeyman Geek

1:36 AM

@soandos: sigh This is looking like a pony problem ;p

Bob

And I'll go test it now

soandos

@Bob, looks perfect

Ill test it tommorow

This guy is driving me nuts though

Bob

smf.comyr.com/microchat

Looks like it works :P

soandos

@Bob, thank you

Bob

@soandos No prob (I now have a chat system set up too! :P)

Journeyman Geek

1:41 AM

lol

soandos

@Bob, this just proves that it is possible to work around issues that should never have to have existed in the first place

but really, thanks

HackToHell

2:44 AM

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Journeyman Geek

4:29 AM

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this is my life ;p

Bob

lol

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek LOL. sounds like mine too

Bob

Probably applies to all of us :D

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