Fucking ICQ and Firewalls

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-06-02 07:04am

I need to coordinate with my coding team over the weekend to finish an assignment, but I'm horribly sick (and busy), so I want to use IM. I haven't used ICQ in a million trillion years, and neither the client registration, an app, or the web app fucking works. The client is too crap to work out my firewall, it seems, and there's no fucking way I'm turning it off.

So, since ICQ doesn't want to tell me, which ports do I open? Why can I reach the registration servers, send the request, but never recieve a reply? Why do goddamn Europeans use ICQ ANYWAY?

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2005-06-02 03:44pm

Why not just use the java version of icq?

Click me

Thats what I used mostly at work.(when I was in school I just used a flash drive and trillian.)

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-06-02 05:52pm

That might just work! Thanks

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-06-02 06:03pm

Or not: I still need a number, and the icq.com/register site doesn't work. My problem is that no method of getting an icq number works for me, and I dont remember the one I used in 1997.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2005-06-03 02:35am

get a new number?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-06-03 03:12am

That's the plan - but registering and getting a new one doesn't work. It just hates me. I've tried the client new number thing, a standalone app and the website you linked, and I just get errors.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2005-06-03 06:02pm

check your PM's

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-06-03 07:44pm

Hey thanks: now I can finish this damn proxy server assignment.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2005-06-04 12:32am

Stark wrote:Hey thanks: now I can finish this damn proxy server assignment.

np