ym and yahoo radio

sbhatta · New Member Joined: 02 Sep 2024 Posts: 3

Hi

I will like to play yahoo messenger and will like to listen to yahoo radio while I use XWIN. What I am trying to say is that I can log to my univeristy unix server through XWIN. But I like to install the above programs in my user account so that I can listen to music or chat. Is there any way to do so? I have only general user rights and do not have root access

nukes · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2024 11:39 am Post subject:

Kinda dodgy ground here.

Let me get this straight:
1. You're on an X terminal connecting to a ?mainframe? or some other terminal server.
2. You have access to the machine, but not root.

What flavour of Unix is this running? Yahoo (afaik) only does Linux clients. So you may not be able to run the binary on another unix.
You could have problems executing programs from your home directory depending on how it's mounted. For example, you could mount it with the noexec flag and it wouldn't allow you to run programs from that partition.

Simply though, you'd just extract the program to somewhere in your home directory, and run it.
So long as the required libraries are installed (if they're not, there's very little you can do about it) then you should be able to run it just the same.

It's worth warning you that uni's don't take kindly to you installing unauthorised software on their machines. You could get kicked off your course or have your user account disabled (which could screw up other modules you're doing).

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mr_ed · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2024 4:04 pm Post subject:

We had a whopping 5MB of space on our Linux accounts at school, which at one point was completely filled up with Freeciv. Very Happy

I don't think that universities care what you do with your userspace, so long as it isn't trying to exploit holes or gain root access. Or do things that are prohibited in your user agreement, if there is such a thing.

Do you mean that you're connecting through XWin32? Like... running Windows but accessing a remote X machine? Why not just download Yahoo on your local client? Or is that because they've blocked the port? Chances are that it's blocked on the remote machine as well.

Do you have the source code your the Yahoo client? Another alternative would be to use Gaim or something.

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nukes · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2024 5:25 pm Post subject:

Gaim would be the most likely thing to work, yes.
No doubt you'd have access to development tools.

Out of interest, what was causing it. It's a pretty weird problem lol.

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mr_ed · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2024 5:37 pm Post subject:

nukes · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2024 11:11 pm Post subject:

lol. I edited the wrong post. That kinda happens when you've got 3 browser windows open, and each of those has like 7/8 tabs.
The post that was meant for was in the email section (about the garbage messages.)

Ignore that for the time being Very Happy

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mr_ed · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2024 3:08 pm Post subject:

hehe.

Sorry, never happens to me. I only ever have 1 browser window open. Of course right now it has only 12 tabs open. Smile

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