{"id":238,"date":"2008-03-22T19:16:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T02:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/sfu-chat-server\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T23:41:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T06:41:12","slug":"sfu-chat-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/sfu-chat-server\/","title":{"rendered":"SFU Chat Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tidbit about SFU&#8217;s network infrastructure that I bet will be news to most of you:  SFU has an instant messaging server.<\/p>\n<p>Just fire up your favourite open source, multi-protocol IM client: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/\">Pidgin<\/a> for Linux or Windows or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adiumx.com\/\">Adium<\/a> for OSX.  Create an account with these settings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protocol: XMPP\/Jabber\/Google Talk (whatever your client calls it)<\/li>\n<li>Host\/server\/domain: jabber.sfu.ca<\/li>\n<li>User\/screen name: your regular SFU userid (possibly with &#8220;@jabber.sfu.ca&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Password: your regular SFU password<\/li>\n<li>Port: 5223<\/li>\n<li>Encryption: SSL\/TLS.  &#8220;Force old SSL&#8221; in Pidgin. (No, I don&#8217;t know why it matters.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know for sure that students can use this, but it&#8217;s worth a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is a good excuse to finally do some kind of &#8220;student questions by IM&#8221; thing in my classes.  What was always stopping me was not wanting to pollute my regular IM accounts with non-fun things.  A separate account would let me turn it on when working and off the rest of the time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still not really sure what IM with my students buys me though.  Slight coolness, in exchange for even more hasty, poorly thought out questions than email.  I sense <a href=\"http:\/\/failblog.wordpress.com\/\">fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tidbit about SFU&#8217;s network infrastructure that I bet will be news to most of you: SFU has an instant messaging server. Just fire up your favourite open source, multi-protocol IM client: Pidgin for Linux or Windows or Adium for OSX. Create an account with these settings: Protocol: XMPP\/Jabber\/Google Talk (whatever your client calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}