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Getting VOIP and chat to work on 2006 OS
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Simon
2006-06-19 , 20:01
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Texrat, I am glad it isn't just me! It is all a bit vague. Both Jabber and GTalk are hard to figure out I think. I was looking into Jabber at work yesterday and like most open source type project they assume everyone knows what they are doing and they tend to leave out all the 'obvious' details. I think with Jabber you have to use a server that supports the AIM and MSN gateways. How you find one I don't know and I am not sure Jabber.org does support them. I don't even know if on the 770 with the appropriate Jabber account you can see your MSN contacts (which is what I want too). When I was trying to get Jabber working yesterday at work I had no luck connecting to anything but that is probably a firewall thing here at work. I also can't get my presence to go online at work even though the wireless connection and email works fine. At home it worked fine (goes online as soon as I connect to the net).
It's great the 770 is a device running Linux and Open Source this and that but it's no excuse for the documentation being rubbish. Hopefully when the production version comes out the docs will be more comprehensive but judging by the original documentation I am not holding out much hope.
Thanks Hedgecore for pointing out the contacts thing since that had me confused too. Seems all my old contacts made it over when I upgraded but only last names? I am really thankful there are people on here who figure this stuff out then share their tricks so the rest of us can get some of this stuff to work.
Is it my imagination or has the email inbox lost some options? Like being able to mark and unmark individual messages? So if I have 50 spams and one message I want to keep I can't select all, unmark the one I want then delete the rest? At least they got rid of the downright confusing email scheduler. I could never understand the interface on that thing! I am glad they've gone to a simple check email every X minutes.
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