Or run the school server on a spare machine or virtual machine. It has an ejabberd server as part of its yummy goodness.  Btw without offering offense to Qemu, vmware server is free as in beer on Windows, and its networking is very easy to configure <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> (redirecting to devel lists) <div class="Ih2E3d"> On 12.12.2008, at 08:52, Morgan Collett wrote: > > b.2) Run your own Jabber server. This requires ejabberd, with some > custom patches, which until recently meant compiling ejabberd from > source. Now however the required patches have been added to ejabberd > in debian and ubuntu, so you can just install a package and do the > configuration and run it, which is much simpler. See > <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd/deb" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd/deb</a> for the > instructions, which are straightforward for Ubuntu 8.10 and need a > little extra to install on 8.04 as you need to get the package from > backports. </div>Crazy idea #2846: make available an ejabberd qemu image. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- "Don't think for a minute that power concedes. We have to work like our future depends on it."  -- Barack Obama