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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.
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.
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?
The filesystem is the package manager
In the US perhaps.. In europe ICQ was pretty much "The" IM until Microsoft's bundling of MSN Messenger attracted the dimwitted hordes of teenagers, at this point anyone wanting to contact any of these people would use MSN Messenger (since before this point not a lot of people were using IM software) and this in turn led to a situation where only "nerds" were using ICQ and most of them ended up getting an MSN account just to be able to keep in touch with their friends..
Now if only Microsoft could get offline messages for MSN Messenger I wouldn't mind this situation but it seems they think "E-mail = offline message"..
/Mikael
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
Here's working links to the aMSN download as the ones on the site seem dead...
Linux Installer (need llibstdc++.so.6)
AutoPackage
Debian
Ubuntu
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4
Mandriva 2006 (Formerly Mandrake)
Slackware
Archlinux
Gentoo
Other
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke.
IIRC, the motivation was to write a complete MSN Messenger clone that would run outside Windows - i've tried it a few times on Linux, and while i like GAIM much better, it really feels and behaves like the official client. It might help non-techincal users that need MSN to switch easier.
The mirror system is bypassed because the packages haven't been synced to all servers yet. If we were to use the mirrors, you would be getting mirror failed messages for most.
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
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/
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
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!
The word is a better place.
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