bucking the system

[Greg Neumann]

I'm assuming by "Gimp" you mean "Gaim". I don't know exactly how to do 
that, but the forums on the Gaim SourceForge page might be a good place 
to look for answers or post the specific question ... 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/
Can you ask your sysadmin to fix the problem? One thing to be very 
careful of is to use unauthorized software at work, open source or not. 
I've had days of hell because good people download things they think 
might be nice only to have them really mess up our systems. I'd much 
prefer Gaim, simply because it's just the IM, not any of the extra 
"stock/news tickers", ads, etc. that AIM and ilk seem to love so much. 
Just my 2 cents.
-Greg Neumann

Ted Draper wrote:

>I use Gimp for instant messaging but would like to know if there is a way to change how Gimp looks to a server? (i.e. have th e server see it as another application, for example Internet explorer)?  I'd like to use Gimp at work but I know the access will be blocked by the server and I'm looking for a way around it.  thanks
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