Yesterday T. invited me to a very delicious gala dinner at his place. I brought my Laptop along. We made use of the opportunity and shared some recent Knoppix and Kanotix Live-CDs. Unfortunately, we were unable to make T.s Windows box talk to my Linux box and instead of wasting endless time we decided to use Jabber instead. When T. launched PSI and I accepted the file in Gaim we were really exited of the connection speed (around 3.5 MBit). Actually, Jabber seemed to notice that we were on the same network and initiated a direct peer-to-peer link between our computers. And the lesson of this post: If you are in a hurry and don’t have time to setup a proper network or simply don’t want to mess with your settings just use Jabber. Both T. and me are impressed again and again of the power this open instant messaging protocol gives to its users.
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