IP messenger...

Sunday, September 6, 2009

There is this software installed on computers of each one of us in our college – ipmessenger. Its just like any other chat application – the difference being that it is much easier to share files across the network using this tool. You can just search through the names and send a message to the person- very user friendly interface- that’s what I meant actually. You can also multicast your message to all the people currently logged into the ipmsg.
Now this multicast facility is used with such creativity by my college mates that you can’t just stop laughing out. There was this Organization behavior in our class and somebody nicknamed himself as Miss BOREDOM and multicasted a message that “Hi Students, I am the Prof’s girlfriend”. How do such ideas come into the minds of students? Then somebody nicknamed themselves as the projector and multicatsed “Shall I fall on you, Prof.?
There was this person who was quarantined in our college for H1N1 and he nicknamed himself as SwineFlu and multicasted “I am coming guys” then he multicasted a file needed by all of us. Somebody replied to his file sending message that “Guys, don’t take files from him. It is infected with H1N1” huh??
Then when an event Sangamitra was organized in our college and not many students were attending it; somebody nicknamed themselves as Sangamitra and multicasted “ Hey .. I am waiting for you guys., hurry up/.. Bring rocks.. we will rock!! “
Net was down in our college for some time. When internet started working finally, somebody multicasted “net working now”. Another replied “networking is a good habit- you should always do it “
This ipmessenger is such a fun in my boring life. After this college is over I am surely gonna miss these messages of Ipmsger.

P.S . more ipmesgnr musings would foloow..

1 comments:

Day Dreamer said...

Don't worry we have such clients in corporate too...although they are meant for technical chats and sharing documents but me n my cube mate use it to share MP3 files which are so bulky to be send on mails :)