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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2005Invitation to Flippy's Cat Chat Party
Hi group, For those of you who are not already seen this notice, I would like to invite you to Flippy's Cat Chat Party that is being held in the chatroom on Sunday July 31st, for 3 hours starting 9am, Melbourne time. Please check the following links to find out what day/time it will be in YOUR time zone: Australia/Pacific: http://tinyurl.com/cs5z3 North America: http://tinyurl.com/84859 South America: http://tinyurl.com/7aqz5 Europe: http://tinyurl.com/9ma6j Asia: http://tinyurl.com/7pcwm Africa: http://tinyurl.com/d2f8s Several people that you already know will co-hosting the party with me: Jo Gray (http://www.flippyscatpage.com/sanity.html), Vicky Chapman (http://www.flippyscatpage.com/rain.html), and Mex (http://www.flippyscatpage.com/reggie.html). Now for the chatroom links: Starchat IRC for WebTV users: http://www.starchat.net/wtv/wtv.php?chan=flippys_catchat Java IRC for PC users: http://www.starchat.net/chat/index.php?chan=flippys_catchat For IRC & MIRC users, the website is http://www.starchat.net, and the channel is: #flippys_catchat If you need any help getting into the room, please see this page: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html Hope that you will be able to drop in to say hello. I look forward to seeing you there! Purrs to all, Flippy in Melbourne, Australia. My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html Thanks for the offer Flippy. It will not allow me to register my email address so I can not participate. Enjoy the party guys. Skritches, KittyLady No worries, KittyLady. You could always come in as a "Guest". Please let me know if I can help. Purrs,  SignatureFlippy in Melbourne, Australia. My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html > Thanks for the offer Flippy. It will not allow me to register my email > address so I can not participate. Enjoy the party guys. > Skritches, > KittyLady I can't figure out how to register. I am not an IRC or MIRC user. I don't even know what that means. Help? Elisabet >Hi group, > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] >My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com >Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html > I can't figure out how to register. > I am not an IRC or MIRC user. I don't even know what that means. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>If you need any help getting into the room, please see this page: >>http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html Elisabet, If you use a PC to access the internet, but don't have a separate program for IRC-chatting (such as mIRC, Pirch, MS Chat, Visual IRC, IceChat etc.), you should use the link under "Java IRC for PC users". The link goes straight to a browser based version of the chatroom. Choose a nickname and enter it into the box "Nick", no passwords or room keys required, just hit Connect to StarChat and you'll se a list of text flitter by - your computer connects to the StarChat server - let the text do its thing, and once it stops you can go ahead and chat - provided there are others to chat with... :) To chat you just type your text into the box below the (fairly small) chat window and hit Enter - and your text turns up in the chat window for all chatters to see. I tested chatting with myself (as there only seemed to be a couple of bots on the channel) with one me in the Java chat and another on IceChat in IRC and it works just fine, both can see what the other says. So now I've really done it - talking to myself in public and over the net!! :D Hope this helps. SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 > Choose a nickname and enter it into the box "Nick", no passwords or room Oh, almost forgot, if you try to use a nick that's already in use, you'll probably get an error message to that effect. Maybe we should all use similar nicks to what we use here - at least it would make it easier to identify each other. SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 Thank you for these instructions, Christine. You explained it a lot better than I ever could! I am new to all this so I am not much of a help. Purrs, SignatureFlippy in Melbourne, Australia. My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html > If you use a PC to access the internet, but don't have a separate program > for IRC-chatting (such as mIRC, Pirch, MS Chat, Visual IRC, IceChat etc.), [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Hope this helps. Christine K. skrev i meddelandet ... >> I can't figure out how to register. >> I am not an IRC or MIRC user. I don't even know what that means. [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >-- >Christine in Vantaa, Finland Thank you Christine, you always take time for this sort of questions, I have tried this and it does not work. I enter a nickname, hit connect and the chat window opens. It tells me: Connecting to irc.starchat.net 7000...... and then nothing more happens. At all. Elisabet > Christine K. skrev i meddelandet ... >> [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > Elisabet If you do have Java enabled in your browser, I really don't know what else to suggest. Check the Java settings of your browser. In Mozilla Firefox it is under Tools - Options - Web Features (at least in version 1.0.6), In Netscape 7.2 under Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Scripts & Plugins, in Netscape 8.0 under Tools - Options - Site Controls and within the frame Web Features. In Internet Explorer (the latest one I have is 6.0 sp2, I don't use it) it's found under Tools - Internet Options/Settings (?, my IE's in Finnish), Additional settings (or something like that). Used to have Opera too at some time, but it didn't do what I wanted so I deleted it. Like I've said before, I like to try out different programs. :) SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 Dear Elisabet, I will get Mex to contact you for help. Purrs, SignatureFlippy in Melbourne, Australia. My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html >I can't figure out how to register. > I am not an IRC or MIRC user. I don't even know what that means. [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] >>My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com >>Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html >Dear Elisabet, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >-- >Flippy in Melbourne, Australia. Thank you Flippy, Elisabet I'll be in late, as alas, I have to work until six p.m. California time this coming Saturday. But it sounds like great fun! Melissa > Hi group, > [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com > Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html No worries, Melissa, I understand. Perhaps you could drop by some other time so we can chat in "real time". Purrs, SignatureFlippy in Melbourne, Australia. My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html > I'll be in late, as alas, I have to work until six p.m. California time > this [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] >> My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com >> Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html > Hi group, > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com > Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html Such a pity that it starts at midnight until 3 a.m. my time in England. I shall be in bed, sorry. Tweed No worries, Tweed, I understand. Sorry about the time. I wish I could make it the same time for everyone. :-) Perhaps you could drop by some other time so we can chat in "real time". Purrs, SignatureFlippy in Melbourne, Australia. My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html >> Hi group, >> [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > Tweed > Hi group, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Jo Gray (http://www.flippyscatpage.com/sanity.html), > Vicky Chapman (http://www.flippyscatpage.com/rain.html), and I'll be using mIRC to chat at Flippy's Cat Chat Party, because I can't get the Java to work on my PC. I assume I just have to enable something, although i have no idea what. Anyone care to enlighten me? Ta, Yowie > > Hi group, > > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Ta, > Yowie What browser are you using? Hugs, CatNipped >> > Hi group, >> > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > What browser are you using? D'Oh, that would have helped. IE 6.0 something something. Yowie > >> > Hi group, > >> > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Yowie 'Kay, as far as I know, the latest versions of IE do not come with Java already installed so you'll have to download it and install it. You can get it here: http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp Hugs, CatNipped >> >> > Hi group, >> >> > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > get > it here: http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp Thanks CN, it worked! Yowie >>> > Hi group, >>> > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >Yowie I think that like me you use a telephone modem, Yowie. Could that matter? Slow connection. My Java works fine for other things. When I click the Java chat link here, I get a message that it is connecting. But it isn't. Absolutely nothing else happens however long I wait. I have tried this for several days at several times now. Elisabet >>>>> Hi group, >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > long I wait. I have tried this for several days at several times now. > Elisabet Yowie was fortunate, she recently upgraded to broadband. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. The uni I work for online got new chat and IE 6 users sometimes had trouble with chat. THey needed to install a slightly older version of java to work. So that is a tip for some of you that may help. If you install java and it doesn't work, you might need a slightly older version. > I'll be using mIRC to chat at Flippy's Cat Chat Party, because I > can't get the Java to work on my PC. I assume I just have to enable [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Ta, > Yowie Yowie, you'd be much happier using mIRC. The screen on the web link is SOOO tiny! If you need help adding the server to your list in mIRC just let me know for the next time :) Jill > Hi group, > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > Hope that you will be able to drop in to say hello. I look forward to seeing > you there! If I'm awake at 2 in the morning, I'll join you for a short chat. I just followed Christine's excellent advice and it worked a dream. Hope to see lots of familiar names there! I miss the cats so much, I need to talk about them! SignatureMarina, Frank and Miranda. In loving memory of Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki > If I'm awake at 2 in the morning, I'll join you for a short chat. I just > followed Christine's excellent advice and it worked a dream. Hope to see > lots of familiar names there! I miss the cats so much, I need to talk > about them! Glad I could help. *blush* :) SignatureChristine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 > Hi group, > > For those of you who are not already seen this notice, I would like to > invite you to Flippy's Cat Chat Party that is being held in the chatroom on > Sunday July 31st, for 3 hours starting 9am, Melbourne time. Please check the > following links to find out what day/time it will be in YOUR time zone: I tested the link. I could see the chat, but could not respond. Someone there said, AOL users must register separately, so I did. I still couldn't "talk", so I assume it takes a bit for the registration to process. Hope it doesn't take long. I'm very much looking forward to the chat. Hans was in the room, and said "Hi" and I couldn't respond. I felt like I was being very rude....sorry, Hans! Sherry > > Hi group, > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Sherry OK. I give up. Apparently they have a vendetta against AOL and single out AOL users to make it more difficult to participate. I finally got the verification #'s, password, etc. via e-mail, but I can't figure out *where* I'm supposed to use them, and I'm already too frustrated to try any further. You all have fun. I might lurk, but I can't participate. Sherry sridd...@aol.com wrote: > OK. I give up. Apparently they have a vendetta against AOL and single > out AOL users to make it more difficult to participate. I finally got [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Sherry Okay, I just read the AOL help section again. It says my solution is to change ISP's. That's a lot of help. Sherry > sridd...@aol.com wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Okay, I just read the AOL help section again. It says my solution is to > change ISP's. That's a lot of help. LOL! *I* could have told you that as soon as I heard you were on AOL! ;> Hugs, CatNipped > Sherry <snip> Okay, I just read the AOL help section again. It says my solution is to change ISP's. That's a lot of help. Sherry > Hi Sherry, Do you have Internet Explorer or Netscape installed separately on your computer? If so, you may be able to sign in to AOL, minimize it, then run IE/NS separately and access the chat. I used to do it that way. Good luck! Patti > <snip> > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Good luck! > Patti Thanks, Patti, but I don't think I can afford to do it that way! :-) We are on rural dial-up. *All* ISP's are a long-distance charge. I'm on a "plan" with the phone co. that I get unlimited access to *one* phone number for $30 extra on my phone bill. If I sign on with any other number, it's a per-minute charge for every minute I'm online. We can't get broadband and there is no local ISP #. Sherry > > Do you have Internet Explorer or Netscape installed separately on your > > computer? If so, you may be able to sign in to AOL, minimize it, then run > > IE/NS separately and access the chat. I used to do it that way. > Thanks, Patti, but I don't think I can afford to do it that way! :-) > We are on rural dial-up. *All* ISP's are a long-distance charge. I'm on As I read it, the suggestion is, if you have more than one browser, to access AOL with Netscape then minimize that window and open another browser to go to the chatroom - same dialup session. Norm -- Come a day, go a day, Wish in me heart it was Sunday. Drinking buttermilk all the week, Whisky on a Sunday. Irish song > As I read it, the suggestion is, if you have more than one browser, to > access AOL with Netscape then minimize that window and open another > browser to go to the chatroom - same dialup session. > Norm I don't have a clue how to access AOL any other way than through AOL. I do't even know what Netscape *is*. But thanks for trying. I think I'm a lost cause :-) Sherry > > As I read it, the suggestion is, if you have more than one browser, to > > access AOL with Netscape then minimize that window and open another [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > But thanks for trying. I think I'm a lost cause :-) > Sherry Not at all. There are several browsers (what you use to surf), IE comes with Windoze so it's by far most prevalent. Netscape used to be the main browser, now small market share but owned by AOL. Both these browsers have problems (IE is slow, insecure and old, Netscape is also outdated). Mozilla is IMO the best browser but ... back o the chatroom. What we were trying to say was, if you used Netscape with AOL then open IE to access the chatroom. But I dunno what to suggest if all you were using was IE, except get another browser, could be tedious with dialup but worth it. Norm (I'm on rural dialup and downloaded Mozilla http://www.mozilla/org ) PS: The liabilities with IE are that, without latest security patches, it can download bad attachments; it also enables pop-ups (which can be ads or nastier things); and it is often targetted byhackers because it's Microsoft. -- Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs >> <snip> >> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Sherry I don't think she means to dial up again. The browser should "see" the AOL connection and go from it. > Hi group, > [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > My Cats: http://www.flippyscatpage.com > Cat-chat: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catchat.html I have tested both the Java solution and mIRC, both worked perfectly. So I'll join you, even if time is 01:00 AM in Norway. It doesn't matter, it's Sunday! Hans I think I got into the "room" and figured out how to put comments. But where is the "send" button??? I've only been in one other chat room in all these years: the one @ Petloss on Mon. eves and it doesn't look like this one. >> Hi group, >> [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > Hans >I think I got into the "room" and figured out how to put comments. But >where is the "send" button??? I've only been in one other chat room in all >these years: > the one @ Petloss on Mon. eves and it doesn't look like this one. Hopitus, there IS no "send" button. The solution is to press 'Enter' :-) Hans |
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