We use slack for comms at work and it works for us, we hardly ever use email any more. The important thing seems to be to create new channels for individual events/projects rather than a small number of generic "sales" or "tech" channels. That way all your conversations about a particular topic are in one place and have a searchable history
slack does seem pretty popular
even just going by the number of people in here that use it
There are optional irc and jabber gateways too https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP
So your techies can treat it as just another irc server, but they miss out on the file uploading etc
oh, interesting
i hardly know anyone who uses jabber
jabber seems to be what should have taken off :)
"they"? Aren't "we" the techies?
mike-burns: The "they" in that context were "your" techies as distinct from me and my fellow techies, I think
I have a usb device that says device descriptor request failed (screen shot *http://tinypic.com/r/6q85s2/9) is there a way to find out what it is and fix it? And when I go to hardware idd it gives something weird *http://tinypic.com/r/ip4bpg/9 all I have that is hooked up is a keyboard and mouse1
No idea about your issue (we're the IRC channel for www.arpnetworks.com, we're not some random Windows support channel) but I find it funny that your screenshot has mIRC yet you connected to Freenode using the web client.
does anyone have any idea how common credit card fraud is these days?
there's an article on krobsonsecurity.com heh.  that site just went down because of ddos
apparently hacked point of service are most common
mercutio: it's about as common as it always has been