Tried that link and still get the same thing. a window at the top that i cant get a cursor into and a public and private band at the bottom of the screen. In the status bar a message that say applet tstenback started.
I can access web based chat (Giga Chat I think?) but not IRC
I'm on a network at work - Thin clients! So I have no local storage to download anything - and my boss wouldn't sign a request to get chat set up to talk about fish