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I am myself a person who strongly opposes being invisible in chats like About Me
GMail or Yahoo! chat. But the reason why I am writing this is simple. My C.V
Off late, being invisible has become a craze (we call it "scope" in local slang Google Summer of Code
;-) ). This is no less than doing things in "STEALTH". When we ask people
who usually do things in stealth like this, the reason they give are "There are
too many distractions. There simply too many people doing non-sense things
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and just ping because they are jobless". These are the kind of responses we get.
I agree that Invisible chat is indeed needed for these reasons. May we all have Roshan.D
personal life and will have important work, where in we don't want ourselves Adithya Kavoor
to be distracted. Krishna Bharadwaj
Aanjhan.R
But these days some people always do things in stealth, whatever may be the
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situation. Oh, they have so much work? I never knew that they are the only
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people who have so much of work to do. They do it all the time and that too
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they don't want to be distracted all the time. Ohoh, I did not even know that,
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all those people who do not do things in stealth don't have work at all, as if!!!

I still cannot believe the above fact. The whole point here is that, those
people who will be in stealth will be knowing whats happening in open. But
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people in open donot know otherwise. Just imagine what might be happening.
How can we trust people who are stealth? They are like people who "Attack Username: *
From Back". How can seriously trust those people? We don't know what they
do at any moment. First of all its better to stay away from such kind of people,
I feel personally. Password: *
Just imagine what may happen if everyone starts doing things in stealth. We
just lose trust of everyone. No one trusts anyone else and a sort of cold war
builds and we know the end. It just reminds me of a dialogue from Uppi's Log in
movie where he says, (warning: its in Kannada), *Aavanu ivana namballa, Log in using OpenID
ivanu avana namballa, ottinalli neev yaaru uddara aagalla*. Create new account
Meaning one person doesn't believe in the other, and the other person doesn't Request new password
believe in this person, finally no one of you achieve anything.

But anyways after reading all these, if you still want to do things in stealth,
here is how you can do for GMail chat in Pidgin. Note, the invisible status in
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Pidgin simply doesn't work in Pidgin for GMail chat. Django GSoC GSoC
1. Open the Buddy List.
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2. In the menu, Tools->Plugins. Enable XMMP Console. Close the Plugin
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3. In the menu again, Tools->XMMP Console->XMMP Console. Ubuntu
(See if your account in which you want to go invisible is selected if you have
multiple accounts. )
4. In the text box, put the following XML snippet Recent blog posts
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{{{ Optimal Streaming Protocol for
<presence> Video-on-Demand using Client’s
<priority>5</priority>
Residual Bandwidth
</presence>
What a week this has been!?!?!
<presence type="unavailable">
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<priority>5</priority>
First Look!
</presence>
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}}}
GSoC 2009 - Melange
GSoC 2009 - Mercurial - Proposal
and then press enter. GSoC 2009 - Progress during
5. Done this is it. If this is not working on your version, now try changing the proposal submission stage -
status to Invisible. Mercurial
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Finally, if you want to reset the above settings. Follow the same procedure but GSoC 2009 - Progress during
make <presence type="available"> in the above XML snippet. proposal submission stage - Django
-- Yours sincerely more
Madhusudan.C.S

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ramprasad g k 3 months ago

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Being invisible or not is purely a personal choice. i think it has been exagerated in your note. life
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is much more complex than you might think, so there could be several resons why a person be
invisible.

you only exposed one side the truth can be totally different.

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