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aMSN 0.95 Released
An anonymous reader writes "After more than a year since their last update aMSN has published version 0.95. New features include 'webcam support, tabbed chat windows, improved skin plugin support, new file transfer protocol, many new plugins (like Ink and Nudge support), an improved bug report system, as well as LOTS of bug fixes.' In addition to many new features and fixes the aMSN site has been given a face lift to (hopefully) facilitate ease of use."
this software is going to be able to keep its name if it gets even remotely popular. I can't help but think Microsoft will come down on him hard.
Why not try a different source forge mirror? One of them must work at a decent speed.
Here is the sourceforge download page, following which you can select a mirror from.
What really is interesting is the islands of usage in the different IM systems. I use Gaim exclusively, have something like 250 buddies in the aggregate list, of which about a third are active. 90+% of them are AIM. Small number are Yahoo. MSN users countable on the fingers of one mutilated hand.
Really. They've got a nice website. But it requires javascript for downloading, it is broken in my Firefox, bypasses SF's default mirror system (which is bad in my eyes because it makes downloads potentially slower). So whilst I've not tested amsn itself, the website needs work.
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In different areas different systems are popular. In Britain it seems as if MSN is used almost exclusively, and I know only two people who use different networks, although I am now using Google Talk with a few converts from MSN - so that is six more people off MSN messenger. However, I know a lot of American people that use AIM, and MSN seems (as you said) to be somewhat of a rarity.
Something messed up with their JS? On Firefox their menu renders into the middle of the page, but it looks fine on IE...
Very true. Canada seems to be going much the same way as Britain. Most people I know in Canada use MSN messenger exclusively. Whereas more of the people I know online (mainly Americans) tend towards AIM and/or YIM.
It's really interesting, actually... To talk to people all over the world you generally need AIM and MSN. Perhaps YIM, but the people who *only* use YIM are few and far between.
"Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."
It would be nice to make a map with the geographical spread.
I live in Brazil. My only exclusively-AIM-or-Yahoo contacts are from people in the US. Most of my list is still ICQ because that was the "big one" here years ago, and I say "still" because most new users go to MSN and lots of the ICQ "early adopters" (me included) now have MSN accounts as well. So, I guess in order of popularity, it's:
USA: AIM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ
Brazil: MSN, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo
Other countries, anyone?
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MSN is amanzingly popular among the "average" users, and got really strong in Brasil after the launch of Windows XP. They did some TV ads too, but I think that the damn man-in-butterfly-costume scared normal people ;-)
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So, it's just a clone of MSN written by someone else, still for windows?
Why is this a big deal?
If it offered multiple clients like Trillian does, or had some snazzy features that MSN didn't already have, I could see it being big news...
Strange indeed, seeing as MSN is probably the least popular messenger between AIM/Yahoo/MSN... I just don't understand the motivation behind writing a clone. Anyone see something I'm missing?
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Two, three other packages that support webcams? Where's Gaim in the webcam support arena?
I like Gaim the best of all the packages but it's lack of webcam support is sad.
BTW, what would be a good choice of webcam to buy for Linux that is likely
to work well with whatever comes along? Something economical but solid.
I don't want to waste $10 on a POS cheap cam but I don't want to spend $200 either..
Come on Gaim, get with the program!!
Here's working links to the aMSN download as the ones on the site seem dead...
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This has been fixed in Tcl/Tk 8.5 as it uses anti-aliased fonts. It is still in beta, but feel free to try it out. http://www.tcl.tk/
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ffs it's a chat client, it doesn't need to be written in C ...
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don't you think it's actually pretty rational that something as easy as a damn msn client is written in a language that makes the code 3-5 times shorter and easier to read ? many of your favourite tools in linux are written in C or use a bash scripts to start up complicated applications, i see no whiners there
anyway, my problem is that amsn has crashed a lot on me. the tcl/tk has had issues with 2.6.x kernel line and tended to deadlock after some point. amsn ran fine with 2.4.x kernel line, but since 2.6.x came along it has been rather unstable and thats why i use gaim right now.
however, gaim is YEARS back in it's msn support and amsn obviously is ahead here.
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
The A in AIM stands for America.
Well, technically I believe it stands for "AOL".
You can now webcam chat with overweight IT geeks who can help you fix your probelms in return for flashing your belly button!
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Well, all I can say is that successive incarnations of Firefox on Fedora are an embarrassment. I cross my fingers that none of my clients are viewing the websites I design for them with Firefox/Linux. 1px CSS borders turn into dotted borders and line spacing is almost doubled. I'm sure if I tweaked xorg somewhere I could get it right, or maybe it's how Firefox integrates with xorg. Who knows? All I know is it ain't ready for prime time and no-one at Mozilla.org seems to care.