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From: Geoff Berrow on 25 Mar 2010 09:52
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:28:58 +0000, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody)
wrote:

>> Really! Was it you I followed down the motorway for 10 miles, trying
>> to get you to cancel your indicator? ;-)
>
>Nope, never done that. Ever.


I do it all the time. The self cancel doesn't work all the time plus
I'm a bit deaf so I can't hear it and the light hides behind the
steering wheel.
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From: Woody on 25 Mar 2010 10:24
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:28:58 +0000, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody)
> wrote:
>
> >> Really! Was it you I followed down the motorway for 10 miles, trying
> >> to get you to cancel your indicator? ;-)
> >
> >Nope, never done that. Ever.
>
> I've done it on a motorbike but it must be pretty hard to do in most
> cars, assuming you aren't on the phone or have yer radio a 100W etc?

I don't recall ever doing it on a motorbike either.

> >> Strange, even my Wife can normally make that stuff work and she's no
> >> tekky.
> >
> >i didn't see there was much to 'make work'. I added someone, they
> >accepted my request. We can talk, just can't see the other one is on
> >line.
>
> But I think there is (or can be) some 'make work' in some of this. Ok,
> I know it should (and generally does) 'just work' but sometimes it
> doesn't so it's up to you re what happens next.

That is the issue

> >I don't see there is much I can do about that. Could you ask your wife
> >how I fix it?
>
> Ok, will do (she has fixed such things before (when I couldn't be
> bothered) so know she can). ;-)
>
> Joking aside (and for no technical reason), have you both tried
> deleting each other and re-adding? I've had that a couple of times
> when the invites get crossed up (you both invite each other at the
> same time or somesuch)?

Was going to try that at some point but she got MSN working again. I
haven't used it since then, apart from to my wife (and her online bit
works fine)


> >I am not sure what you mean by 'perfect IM client with noone to talk
> >to'.
>
> That if you sat down a wrote 'a perfect IM client' (for you) to be
> perfect it may not talk to any of the existing client / protocols out
> there (because you might be able to do better) so you would end up
> talking to yourself.

Hard to believe that it would be the perfect IM client if it couldn't
connect to anything!

> > To me adium is about the best I have used, and I can talk to all my
> >msn or aim contacts on it.
>
> Ok.
>
> > Just that it doesn't work on windows.
>
> So no use for me and 99.9% of my contacts (for example).

Well, yes, that is why I am looking for something on windows that is the
same.

> >I only had to use skype to talk to her as she broke her MSN on her XP
> >laptop, and couldn't get it going for a while. Luckily she has it going
> >again.
>
> Yup, always good to have backups. ;-)

The only reason she has backups is becasue I fixed her computer a few
months back and backed it up. She wouldn't back anything up if her life
depended on it!

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Woody
From: SteveH on 25 Mar 2010 11:27
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:

> > Back OT, hasn't there been an MSN for OSX all along though (all be it
> > not very up_to_date) or is it that this one does video? On that, it
> > looks like it's (still) a bit fussy?
>
> While we are OT, is there a decent client for MSN on windows? I used to
> use proteus, but last time I tried it didn't work.
> I am currently using the proper MSN client, but it is all adverts, one
> window per person, adverts that spin out if you go near the window etc.
> In short, pretty horrible.
>
> Ideally something like adium on OSX would be my first choice (which I
> guess is like proteus was).

I use Pidgin.
--
SteveH
From: Woody on 25 Mar 2010 11:54
SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > Back OT, hasn't there been an MSN for OSX all along though (all be it
> > > not very up_to_date) or is it that this one does video? On that, it
> > > looks like it's (still) a bit fussy?
> >
> > While we are OT, is there a decent client for MSN on windows? I used to
> > use proteus, but last time I tried it didn't work.
> > I am currently using the proper MSN client, but it is all adverts, one
> > window per person, adverts that spin out if you go near the window etc.
> > In short, pretty horrible.
> >
> > Ideally something like adium on OSX would be my first choice (which I
> > guess is like proteus was).
>
> I use Pidgin.

I tried pidgin on maemo and didn't like it much, but I would imagine it
is different on something with a proper screen

--
Woody
From: Ben Shimmin on 27 Mar 2010 08:01
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>:
> On 2010-03-27 11:15:27 +0000, Ben Shimmin said:

[...]

>> Adium is pretty good, I think -- it supports lots of protocols (er,
>> except Skype, maybe?) and it's very configurable, so you can make it
>
> It has really poor support for XMPP chat rooms, which is annoying given
> that the underlying libraries it uses can do it.

Curious. Adium uses libpurple, right? Do other libpurple-based apps
have better support for them?

> I find theming a bit of an odd thing to put in an app.

Well, it's very un-Apple. But it works well in this case, I think.

b.

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