Link to Gaim.
I forgot that Gaim can run on Windows. Go team GTK.
Giles! I accidentally killed Spike. That's okay, right?
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
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Gudanov - Sep 27, 2006 12:41:25 pm PDT #9067 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
meara - Sep 27, 2006 3:05:43 pm PDT #9068 of 10003
Hmm. Yeah, I'm not loving Trillium. I may have to try Gaim...
(But look! I'm online! At home! on my work laptop! So exciting)
esse - Sep 29, 2006 1:32:56 am PDT #9069 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I prefer Adium to Trillian when I'm chatting at home. And Trillian will sometimes have problems connecting to Jabber protocols. But on the whole I haven't had any problems with it.
flea - Sep 29, 2006 1:48:36 am PDT #9070 of 10003
information libertarian
We use Gaim at work. However, just FYI, Jabber on Gaim is on crack.
esse - Sep 29, 2006 2:28:07 am PDT #9071 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Like bad Whitney crack? Or addictive chocolate crack?
flea - Sep 29, 2006 6:44:42 am PDT #9072 of 10003
information libertarian
Whitney crack. It's just been veeeery erratic, illogically so. Like, every once in a while it completely forgets you have an account. Disappearing chat rooms. Buddies appear and disappear.
I will say, when we used to use AIM on Gaim, we never had this problem, so it must be Jabber's fault.
esse - Sep 29, 2006 7:30:56 am PDT #9073 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Well, Jabber in the sense that they're protocols on service-specific servers, yeah. Livejournal's Jabber server drops more than Gmail's for example, at least for me. But that's weird... one more reason to stick to what I know, I suppose.
Consuela - Sep 29, 2006 3:20:41 pm PDT #9074 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I couldn't use LJTalk (which is Jabber-based) on Gaim, and ended up using Miranda instead. Which I don't like all that much, actually.
esse - Sep 30, 2006 12:01:45 am PDT #9075 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
It's too bad they don't make Adium for windows.
Hil R. - Sep 30, 2006 8:07:17 am PDT #9076 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm looking into getting a new laptop. (My four-year-old Dell is slowly turning evil. First it stopped communicating with the iPod, then it stopped communicating with the printer, and now it throws a hissy fit before it will communicate with the internet.) I think I've settled on the 1.83GHz MacBook, with an 80 GB hard drive rather than the standard 60. People who know Macs better than I do -- good choice? Anything else I should be looking at?
I'm pretty much going to be using it for internet, music, maybe downloading some movies and TV shows, some photo editing, some word processing, basic money software like Quicken, maybe playing around with basic video editing, and I'm most likely going to buy the Mac version of Maple (math program) for some stuff. Last time I worked with Maple on a Mac, it seemed to run much slower than the PC version, but it could have just been that particular computer or the computation I was trying to get it to run, which was admittedly quite ridiculously long and should have been done with Monte Carlo methods rather than what I was trying to do, but I didn't know how to program that at that point.