Comments on: Dress rehearsal 3

By: netvegetable

netvegetable — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:42:35 +0000

Help William. I followed your instructions only to be told to connect to irc server #pollbludger.

William, we forgot to put up a note informing people that they need to have a Java Runtime Environment installed. Available here. Also, that they need to have Java enabled in their browser. Instructions here.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:35:50 +0000

trying again at 4:34 am Sydney time and got the following error message

unable to connect : java.lang.NullPointerException

Advice? Cheers

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:09:37 +0000

Hi william,

didn’t work for me. When i put in my server U was still re-directed. The meebo thing wroks for though. Cheers

By: Crikey Whitey

Crikey Whitey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:50:40 +0000

Dubious, William. I had a shot at it, and got nowhere. I myself am a user friendly step by step tech writer.

This is a little tricky, I suggest, especially for all on the eve off, when nails are already bitten. Including yours, I imagine.

davididoff at 20 puts it well.

PS I wasn’t shouting at you in caps about the Galaxy poll reporting on Channel 10.

I was aware you would await a qualifier.

It was just that the posters went on and on.

Maybe I should have been clearer myself.. the other poster confirming definitely spelled it out.

By: davidoff

davidoff — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:20:59 +0000

William – there is a strong social difference between a blog and a chat room and as such I recommend keeping them as separate entities. Blogs deal with a sequence of (generally) qualified opinions (although some of the stuff on pollbludger is a little off the edge from time to time). If you separate the chit-chat out to an IRC channel and focus plog posts to main stream contributors – then you will be offloading some of the bandwidth – otherwise just stay with the blog and deal with the traffic.

By: Fozzy

Fozzy — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:11:04 +0000

William,

Quick FYI/Feedback:

I usually read PB via Google Reader and when a post interests me, I open another browser tab to go and read the full story. Has worked without any problems until tonight with the “Out of the Box” post (number 750). It’s giving me a 404 – “Server can not find it!”

Thanks

By: SolomonBloke

SolomonBloke — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:43:00 +0000

If you want to try the firewall, Just Me, it should be port 6667.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:15:02 +0000

IRC chatroom works a treat .. that is the first option up there

Didn’t try the second one but if the first one works ……

Thanks for reminding me how nice chat rooms are … now that it is up and funtional, I like it better than the PB list itself

By: Blackburn Bob

Blackburn Bob — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:12:38 +0000

I get No 1’s problem. Had no problen connecting yesterday (pity, because I was drunk)

By: Just Me

Just Me — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:05:11 +0000

Thanks, AJH. But I have too many sensitive work files on my hard drive to risk switching off the firewall, even just for a minute. Will ask my family’s resident IT expert for an answer, when he comes home.