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From: Woody on 21 Jun 2008 17:21
I was sitting here earlier and iChat started on its own, with a message
from my wife.
I thought I had imagined it, so quite iChat.

Later she said 'Oh, you are online'. I said I wasn't and iChat was off.
She messaged me, iChat started up with the message (in front of what I
was doing).

I made sure everything was offline, and quit again. She said I was still
there, and sure enough, she can send me a message which starts up my
iChat with the message.

It seems to be a bonjour thing, but I have checked in the preferences,
and there seems nothing to prevent this (in fact iChat isn't even the
default IM app.

She says sometimes I appear online even when the computer is closed and
I am out. Presumably means she could wake it up and drain the battery!


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Woody

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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 21 Jun 2008 17:50
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:21:05 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody)
wrote:

>She says sometimes I appear online even when the computer is closed and
>I am out. Presumably means she could wake it up and drain the battery!

That's pretty special. Does Activity Monitor show anything iChatty
running in the background?

Does anyone know what the rules are for when (Leopard) screen sharing
is available? I was trying to connect to my grilfiend's iChat to do
some remote diagnostics while 200 miles from home, and it took over
half an hour and three accounts before "request screen sharing" came
up as an option.

Cheers - Jaimie
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From: Woody on 21 Jun 2008 17:56
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:21:05 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody)
> wrote:
>
> >She says sometimes I appear online even when the computer is closed and
> >I am out. Presumably means she could wake it up and drain the battery!
>
> That's pretty special. Does Activity Monitor show anything iChatty
> running in the background?

Ahh - didn't think of that one.
I guess the suspiciously named 'iChat agent' must be the culprit.

I wonder if killing it is going to affect anything. I really only want
my iChat running when I am running it!


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Woody

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From: Andrew Stephenson on 21 Jun 2008 21:40
In article <1iiwqai.1istuki5ojs0vN%usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>
usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk "Woody" writes:

> [...] I guess the suspiciously named 'iChat agent' must be the
> culprit.
>
> I wonder if killing it is going to affect anything. I really
> only want my iChat running when I am running it!

Er, you've checked you've not fallen into a Doctor Who episode?
--
Andrew Stephenson

From: ray on 22 Jun 2008 05:57
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> I was sitting here earlier and iChat started on its own, with a message
> from my wife.
> I thought I had imagined it, so quite iChat.
>
> Later she said 'Oh, you are online'. I said I wasn't and iChat was off.
> She messaged me, iChat started up with the message (in front of what I
> was doing).
>
> I made sure everything was offline, and quit again. She said I was still
> there, and sure enough, she can send me a message which starts up my
> iChat with the message.
>
> It seems to be a bonjour thing, but I have checked in the preferences,
> and there seems nothing to prevent this (in fact iChat isn't even the
> default IM app.
>
> She says sometimes I appear online even when the computer is closed and
> I am out. Presumably means she could wake it up and drain the battery!

Interesting.
I use Adium and saw a similar instance involving my daughter and Yahoo
Chat. Her Powerbook, in the same room as me last week, was closed asleep
and yet she still appeared to me as online.
This must be something to do with both machines being on the same LAN,
as this doesn't happen, as far as I can tell anyway, over the net.
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